Interchange. Formerly MiniVend + ____ (the name escapes me). Now part of the RedHat group.
A rose (or stink weed) by any other name....
I have _NEVER_ been able to get MiniVend to install and run.
That said, a bunch of ISP's seem to have been able to get it to run.
Customization. If reverse polish notation, and perl REGEX's are your native language, you'll find the mini-vend tag system template system to be like second nature.
Of course, if you are a normal human, and like the way Links SQL functions, and how the template parser works, you'll pull your hair out, and probably go postal, unless you down significant "chill juice" for the 2-8months it will take to learn it.
Other than that, it's not that bad. It's fully customizable (so they say), it's completely flexible (so they say) and it's fully scalable (so they say). It handles multiple stores on the same server, too, (so they say).
It's open source (I can vouch for that) and it's got an active developer (er griping??) community, as evidenced by the mailing lists I've been a member of for the past year or so.
Will they actually answer YOUR question? that's another story.
But, I will admit I have not tried Interchange since it was acquired by RedHat, and that may have made some changes in the support issues. It is 1.5 or maybe 2 versions further along than last I looked, but from the mailing list, I gather the use/configuration/etc issues, those have not changed.
I think they would have been better off to NOT join the two programs, re-design the entire program from the ground up, using what was learned in the code of the two previous programs.
As it is, I would not touch Interchange, as much as I lust after a fully functional, robust, and open source shopping cart solution.
I honestly don't think IC is it, unless you can devote an entire department to making it work on your site.
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A rose (or stink weed) by any other name....
I have _NEVER_ been able to get MiniVend to install and run.
That said, a bunch of ISP's seem to have been able to get it to run.
Customization. If reverse polish notation, and perl REGEX's are your native language, you'll find the mini-vend tag system template system to be like second nature.
Of course, if you are a normal human, and like the way Links SQL functions, and how the template parser works, you'll pull your hair out, and probably go postal, unless you down significant "chill juice" for the 2-8months it will take to learn it.
Other than that, it's not that bad. It's fully customizable (so they say), it's completely flexible (so they say) and it's fully scalable (so they say). It handles multiple stores on the same server, too, (so they say).
It's open source (I can vouch for that) and it's got an active developer (er griping??) community, as evidenced by the mailing lists I've been a member of for the past year or so.
Will they actually answer YOUR question? that's another story.
But, I will admit I have not tried Interchange since it was acquired by RedHat, and that may have made some changes in the support issues. It is 1.5 or maybe 2 versions further along than last I looked, but from the mailing list, I gather the use/configuration/etc issues, those have not changed.
I think they would have been better off to NOT join the two programs, re-design the entire program from the ground up, using what was learned in the code of the two previous programs.
As it is, I would not touch Interchange, as much as I lust after a fully functional, robust, and open source shopping cart solution.
I honestly don't think IC is it, unless you can devote an entire department to making it work on your site.
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
