osCommerce

osCommerce (“open source Commerce”) is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project. While osCommerce is still officially in its development stage, the current Milestone 2.2 release (Release Candidate 2a) is considered stable. As of August 2008 the osCommerce site says that there are over 14,000 ‘live’ websites using the program.  This number is almost certainly conservative, given the inclusion of osCommerce in hosting panel application installers such as Fantastico (web hosting) and its dependency on osCommerce users linking their sites into the osCommerce Live Stores listings.

The planned Milestone 3.0 is expected to be a major re-write of the program to incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template system to allow easy layout changes, and inclusion of an administration-area username and password definition during installation . An early release candidate of osCommerce 3.0 (osCommerce Online Merchant 3.0A4) has been available for download since Mar 31 2007, 03:11 AM

On 29th of October, 2008 it was announced by Harald Ponce de Leon (Project Leader) that the goal is to get v2.2 finalized and to release v3.0 Alpha 5 as soon as possible.

Oscommerce v2.2 was finalised released by oscommerceproject.org on the 11th of December 2008 due to a lack of progress by the original projects founder. Milestone 3 core seems to be considered out of date by the project & a version 4 is being discussed.

Other Information

• Developed by  Harald Ponce de Leon
• Latest release  2.2 RC 2a / 2008-01-30;
• Preview release  3.0 Alpha 5 “Vanillekipferl” / 2009-03-14;
• Written in  PHP
• OS  Cross-platform
• Type  Webshop
• License  GNU General Public License
• Website  http://www.oscommerce.com/

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