@Justin: Thanks for the compliment. As for Magento, I have worked with many good PHP/MySQL people in the past, so I generally assume that any poor performance issues with an out of the box Open Source platform can and will be addressed when cost effective (which may mean “when I need it fixed”). I see plenty of references to Magento being slow, and a few of successful use of caching and MySQL tweaking to improve performance. Without looking further, I’d say it is what it is… a 1.0 production version of a new open source ecommerce platform, with a ton of promise and bright future.

I haven’t looked into it yet personally, but we have some ex-OSC folks working for us and the goal is potentially a live production site. If you want, get in touch and I can let you know what I come up with.. or we can put together some recommendations if you care that much.

… drop me a line if U want.

Dave

@mert:  It’s too easy to make something look promising these days… it takes days just to get to the meat of the issues and many don’t bother untilit’s too late to turn back (or so they think). The codebase here looks very impressive to me so far. I know a number of guys who can probably make this do amazing things for a fraction of the cost of a custom cart and with all the benefits of Open Source support. That’s still not cheap, but it is cheap compared to what it really costs to do things right these days.