Comments on: Magento Review: is the hype just hot air?

By: PBCookie

PBCookie — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:54:27 +0000

I LOVE Magento . . . almost to the point where I’m frightened. Ha! It’s almost too good to be true. I keep wondering if I’m going to dive head first and midway to the bottom find out some crucial thing is missing . … I don’t know. I keep looking for reasons NOT to like it, but I can’t find any. Highly recommended.

By: Tapsilog

Tapsilog — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:24:41 +0000

EAV … the truth is… it only hurts the database. The existence of EAV only defeats the purpose of being a database server. Database server no longer uses the normal way of indexing, searching and relating data. Varien completely reinventing the wheel. EAV data mining techniques are handled by the codes/PHP and no longer handled by the database itself. So the result? Slow database response because EAV is no longer maximizing the correct database handling that the server provides.

By: Tapsilog

Tapsilog — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:21:04 +0000

Nice review. But the main question is … have you tried Magento?

If you go to their website and read all the features, I guess you could say it’s a great product. But once you tried it, it really sucks.

Plus if you bought the enterprise it sucks big time. Enterprise has no extensions unlike the community.

The forum sucks too. Varien does not listen to the community.

By: Guido Jansen

Guido Jansen — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:09:50 +0000

About those Magento speed complaints: There just not true, you just need to know what you’re doing and how to tweak the server/templates/magento to fit your setup.

Read my article “101 ways to speed up your Magento e-commerce website” (http://blog.guidojansen.nl/2010/05/18/101-ways-to-speed-up-your-magento-e-commerce-website/) and I bet you’ll get your Magento to be lighting fast!

By: Frederik Krautwald

Frederik Krautwald — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:11:19 +0000

Hi,

Magento is a great product. But it is build very complex (maybe too complex). It’s database is using an EAV configuration, which makes it slow for large amounts of products. We are facing serious problems with a 160,000 products store on a 32GB Multi Core High End dedicated server!!!

Fore smaller solutions, such as 4,000 products, Magento runs fine.

Varien, the producer of Magento, has recently launched their Enterprise version starting at 11,000 USD/yr. (probably cheap in the eyes of Roy Rubin.)

My advice is to consider your choice closely.

By: Magento Development

Magento Development — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:19 +0000

After working with Magento for some time, I must say it’s Amazing! It’s definitely come a long way too and with the developer community growing, there are more extensions available. Since it’s open source, it’s super powerful and scalable. I don’t know why everyone here is saying that it “doesn’t work” since I’ve had no real problems after dozens of sites. You just need to work with it and find help if you need too.

Honestly, I love it and think it’s going to grow into the go-to solution for e-commerce. It’s not just ‘buzz’!

By: Mail_Man

Mail_Man — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:32 +0000

My first experience with Open Source Software was/is Joomla! It’s fantastic and anyone with some knowledge of HTML can set it up and use it w/o any trouble. I even installed it on a localhost (my laptop) and had it running in a few hours.

I had a big surprise waiting for me with Magento. I had no business even trying this software. Don’t bother with this software unless you hire someone who has already developed and implemented at least one Magneto-based WORKING e-commerce website who is still willing to take on another at a competitive rate.

The dumbest things don’t even work out of the box. Credit Card processing using Authorize.Net? Sorry. UPS link for shipping? Nope, doesn’t work either. Can someone get it working? Apparently, but you’ll have to be an experienced Magento programmer. Newbies will jump off the nearest bridge.

Magento is meant for experienced developers only. That much should be plastered all over the website, if nothing else.

By: Kern

Kern — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:56:26 +0000

We were asked by a new client to enter a promo code into the admin section with a start and end date (1-4-10 to 2-4-10). After a short period of time, those times changed themselves to (4-1-10 to 4-2-10) which, in effect caused the shopping cart to malfunction. The client was obviously very upset.
This software still has some flaws and no easy way to get through to customer support without buying into their gold or platinum support services. So, this program is definitely not free! Be prepared and know what you are getting into with this program.

By: Managing E-commerce

Managing E-commerce — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:07:38 +0000

I know this is the revival of an old post, but I must say that Magento has made a lot of progress since the date of this post.

However, I still believe the most negative thin about Magento, is comparing it to other Open Source platforms.

In my opinion the application and its features are sophisticated enough to be compared to other enterprise-grade platforms in which case it is easy to see that features that is not offered a la carte are quite rare.

At the enterprise level, one usually seeks best-in-class service/software for pieces such as email marketing, search and others and the scalability of the platform for integration with these third-party platforms is of utmost importance. Magento definitely delivers in this arena with a widely available development network and highly unobtrusively customizable application infrastructure.

I cover a few of these issues that drove our decision to migrate to Magento Enterprise edition in the article below at http://www.managingecommerce.com/strategy/decisions/migrating-to-magento-against-critical-reviews-41

I just highly suggest that Enterprise customers do not mistakenly end up comparing Magento to many of the currently available open-source platforms, as ti is definitely in the EOS (enterprise open-source) league if not one of its own.

By: Kim Blaker

Kim Blaker — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:59:34 +0000

Aivea Commerce Server is an excellent product! It also has Microsoft Dynamics integration – http://www.aiveacommerceserver.com