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Magento Enterprise Edition 1.6.0.0-rc1 released

Key features include the new CMS+ Content Management Engine and the new Targeted Merchandising Suite.

This release candidate gives a preview of new features and functionality which are planned for the release later this month and it’s a great opportunity for those of you already on Magento Enterprise Edition to get prepped for upgrading.

For more information read the Magento blog post.

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Joomla and Magento. To integrate or not.

There’s been a lot of talk of the new ecommerce platform, Magento. I must say, it’s one sexy platform. Without doubt, Magento will be the leader in open source commerce, if it isn’t already. Packaged with all the bells and whistles, this SEO-ready platform has released it’s first stable version with force.

Magento already has a substantial following. Without doubt, we’ll start seeing the Magento template shops start popping onto the seen. Many Magento-Junkies come from a Joomla-based background and seem eager to get their hands on the feature rich, best-of-breed ecommerce platform. Most, if not all, have one thing in mind: to develop, hack, extend, modify and integrate. (more…)

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Production release of Magento officially launched!

I am absolutely thrilled to say that Magento production release is officially available for download!!! Whoopeeee!!! I have been waiting for this day for a long time, now we just need to find some excuse to use it for something ;0)

In case you don’t already know, Magento is an enterprise open source ecommerce platform. I have used many different ecommerce systems over the years and i can safely say that there is absolutely nothing that i have ever tested that comes remotely close to this. I think one of the biggest differences with Magento is that, instead of being a community project, it is actually being developed by a company called Varien, that specializes in ecommerce. Everything that they have done since day one has been absolutely spot on. It is easily apparent that they have done some serious planning and have a very clear 5 (and possibly longer) action plan. (more…)

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