Comments on: Interview: Roy Rubin About Magento Open Source eCommerce

By: JEROME DENNIS D

JEROME DENNIS D — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:51:09 +0000

Its really amazing to see the vision of Roy Rubin comes true (even they have crossed more than their vision it seems) now.

Well determined men are behind the success of this great (Roy and Yoav) All time open Source E-Commerce Frame work. I hope soon the merchants are going to prefer ONLY MAGENTO for their E-Commerce Stores.

Their broad vision, creativity, deep insights of E-Commerce industry and above all the Grace of God are the underlying factors for their great success.

Great Article too

Thanks a lot !!!

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By: Dallas Magento Developer

Dallas Magento Developer — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:00:43 +0000

I’m a huge supporter of magento and have been offering it to my clients since it’s release. There is nothing that comes close to the features and rapid development that are possible with magento. My clients save money and get a higher quality site, and Roy Rubin is the MAN.

By: Jay Bharat

Jay Bharat — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:27:37 +0000

Hi all,
Thanks for magento.

Because I m using magento for ajax architectiure.
When I am initial stage for developing my application I very worried because not understand coding, but after 6-7 days I feel very happy, no issue or worry about magento.

Jay Bharat

By: webshopnews

webshopnews — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:47:25 +0000

It is true that Magento is complex. But this is natural for an enterprise shop-solution. Nobody said, that Magento – with all the features and this architecture – will be an super-easy software tool for everybody.

In my opininion, the problem lies in the fact that a lot of ecommerce-newbies read about Magento and believe using the software is just installation and getting rich.

To sum it up: Magento is one of the best eCommerce-Solutions, but also complex and this is one of the reasons why Magento is not suitable for newbies or very simple shops.

By: Air Purifiers

Air Purifiers — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:48:18 +0000

We use magento and are very happy with it.

By: Reverendo

Reverendo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:29:27 +0000

Magento is a great software with no doubt but now, with version 1.2.0.1 on the market and all the hype passed some critics could be made.
Community support on Magento is weak, as is a very complex software and it has a complete lack of documentation.
Support on the forums is very very poor. There are hundreds of questions without answer and the core members only participate in a very very rare occasions.
Magento is not that flexible. You need in depth knowledge of PHP, XHTML and XML to do accomplish very simple tasks as, for instance, put the navigation on the left or modify the logo.
The templating system is a nightmare, as it’s not well documented and to make a very simple customisation you need a developer.
It has a very very poor CMS which today is considered as a must have. Making a standalone eCommerce software very difficult to integrate with standard CMS as Joomla or Drupal and with no built-in CMS functionalities is a thing of the past. Merchants want to build communities to facilitate the selling of their products. To have only a shop is not enough. You need content on the site.
So, at the time I’m writing this lines, Magento seems far from becoming the “de facto” standard. Don’t forget that most of the open source eCommerce stores are a one man or family business with not much resources.
There are other options, not that powerful, but much more easy to operate and customise.

By: magento man

magento man — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:10:17 +0000

just found your article.
I’d agree with previous poster that Magento become much faster nowadays and would stay the number one solution for ecommerce since we haven’t seen updates for OSC for years and zen cart is not that flexible for developers. As a reason of strength you could see that templatemonster released their new templates product like – Magento Templates.

By: Templates Master

Templates Master — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:23:54 +0000

After 1.1.6 release Magento become much faster and many bugs were fixed. So it’s right time now to migrate. Designing and developing new stores and templates now much easier and faster. Also we really love architecture of Magento based on xml files.

By: Templates Master

Templates Master — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:41:53 +0000

We have used Magento for several stores. What we can say… We 100% agree with Michael that Magent is hungry on resources. Store with a lot of products and attributes powered with Magento needs at least virtual private server to run smoothly. So many small store owners that use shared hosting packages can’t use it. Good news that stores 100-200 products still can be hosted on shared hostings. Also we were not able to test it under heavy user load yet. I think main reason is that Varien team was mostly developing stores for medium sized business. So they have not considered this 100K small store owners. From all other points it’s the best open source software for now. I think open source ecommerce world will become much healthier now.

By: eCopt

eCopt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:40:03 +0000

@ matousek – It’s one of the best!! You should definitely consider upgrading your osCommerce copy to Magento, you won’t be disappointed. It’s more flexible, better community, more features, support, new stuff is released often and the folks behind it are reliable and know their stuff. Within reason, what more could you ask for?

By: eCopt

eCopt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:36:46 +0000

@ Mark.Jones – Thanks for chiming in Mark. You didn’t mention the name of the software, but I suspect you’re talking about Woopra. I’ve tested it pretty well and the data and interface looks great. Thanks for sharing the bit of info about conversion increases, it makes sense that real-time tracking could help to improve in those areas.

Woopra is available at… http://www.woopra.com

By: matousek

matousek — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:30:01 +0000

Looks great, i’m wondering how much web 2.0 they’ve incorporated. Looking for an alternative to OsCommerce as upgrading, installing new features, and theming are becoming an issue for our women’s belt site, beltzilla.

By: Mark.Jones

Mark.Jones — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:29:07 +0000

That is an interesting article. In our experience website owners find it difficult to understand visitor behaviour even with good systems such as Google Analytics.

We have recently come across an excellent piece of software that not only allows them to monitor individual user behaviour in real time, but also facilitates direct engagement between visitor and user. This has been increasing conversions by an average of 15% in the websites we have implemented it in.

It seems that the individualized data gives a more enlightening perspective.

By: michael

michael — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:13:53 +0000

I think that a follow up evaluating of what a marketer can expect in terms of installation, configuration, and usage would be hugely valuable.

By: eCopt

eCopt — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:51:44 +0000

@ michael – I would have to agree with you 100%. From what I have looked at and heard from some MGO users I know it is not the case currently as stated in the article quote.

However, I do believe that it will eventually get better as far as lightness, and more efficient code. eCommerce programs are extremely large and complex and sometimes, especially with many programmers working on the different sections of the code, it can get messy.

This has been one major underlying issue with all open source programs, but the guys backing MGO (Rubin and Varien) are some of the best and I think, once more established, that they certainly will make good on the statement above (or at least attempt to).

Great eye, thanks for pointing it out in your comment for others to be aware of. Maybe it’s time for that follow-up analysis of the actual program, rather than the aesthetic side of things?

By: michael

michael — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:47:15 +0000

I think magento LOOKS great, but one quote from this article made me laugh out loud, namely:

Enterprise level code and scaling – performance has been a huge issue we wanted to address.

Magento, at this point, is ridiculously resource intensive, especially as compared to other open source e-commerce products like zen cart and oscommerce. It may be more “enterprise” in other ways, but I think the ‘performance’ issue still needs ‘addressing.’

By: willky

willky — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:25:58 +0000

I just found this article and must admit that one part of the interview is very interesting, especially now – some month later. Concerning the question about the future of Magento said Roy: “It is our hope that Magento will lead the open source eCommerce space. Based on the feedback and response we have received so far, we feel confident in making this happen.” In my opinion Magento has now – only 8 month later – almost reached this goal. Within this short time, there are more than 200,000 Magento-Downloads and the demand is still rising. And I know that there are a lot of people waiting for the final release. Congrats in advance!

By: lopsta

lopsta — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:37:55 +0000

Magento has a european developer team based in Kiev, Ukrania. So i’m quite sure it will fit to german laws.