With the advent of eCommerce and online stores, the face of buying goods has been changed forever. eCommerce solutions permit companies to get their products to market sooner than through normal "brick and mortar" channels (aka physical stores).
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 osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality.
osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 148,400 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 4,200 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.
osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.
With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 12,600 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide. |
 VirtueMart is the leading Online-Shop solution for Joomla! & Mambo (more than 1.5 Million downloads so far).
VirtueMart is free! You can download, use and modify it without any restrictions (License: GNU/GPL) - just as Joomla. VirtueMart is no stand-alone script, but a Plug-in and requires the PHP Content Management System Joomla! (or Mambo). So you must install Joomla first, then VirtueMart. |
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