As expected, Varien, the makers of Magento, have announced their enterprise edition. You can see the differences between the standard and enterprise versions. This is no surprise, and I believe they’ve mentioned they would do this in time. I’ve always found Magento a bit odd. It’s always felt like more of an enterprise level product to me. Many of the features are too rich and too complex, and the hardware requirements too high for the average small shop which is the typical audience of open source products. The product has had enterprise aspirations, yet the bulk of the users have been low end who want something quicker and easier. I’m curious to see what the enterprise uptake is like. Mind you, I can’t see them hitting the really high end of town, but it’s an interesting offering for the mid range, those doing maybe $10m – $200m/year in revenue (pulling those figures off the top off my head without too much thought).