e-commerce solutions

E-commerce solutions to be replaced in the upcoming years

E-commerce is growing with an enormous speed. In the most prolific month of the year (so far, July) e-retail sales went up to 17% and m-Retail recorded a 313% growth that is still soaring up. However, with such a growth come also huge expectations. The e-shops operating on older technologies seem to start feeling fatigue with their performance being on the verge of possibilities. According to Forrester research up to 56% of e-commerce businesses are planning to increase their expenditures on technology in the near time.

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Magento Community version not enterprise ready

by Peter Horsten 11.10.2011 e-commerce
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Magento is by far the fastest growing ecommerce platform. But we will have to distinguish between the two versions Magento offers, Community and Enterprise. The community version is downloaded millions of times, which doesn’t mean that it resulted in as many real stores of course. I even downloaded a version myself, which never became a [...]

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Open source based E-commerce sites vulnerable to attacks

by Peter Horsten 08.08.2011 e-commerce

Recently hackers showed us again how vulnerable open source code based e-commerce sites are. Over 100.000 webshops were injected with malware. In fact a very old fashioned attack was conducted. One of the main reasons the hackers succeeded is because it’s rather hard for the webshop owners to update their code to the most recent [...]

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