I was checking today for a good e-commerce platforms for the development of your own web-shop.
There is a nice list http://blog.templatemonster.com/2010/05/25/how-to-choose-ecommerce-platform/ of 9 most popular. This one http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-16-open-source-e-commerce-applications/ is a bit longer, but basically it boils down to 3 options:
- osCommerce and it’s relatives
- Magento
- non-LAMP solutions, based on ASP.NET, Rubi or Joomla
Magento looks like most professional at this moment (after couple of hours of googling). But I also need an affiliate solution, linked to it. I found two biggest and most known:
Next time I should have a closer look at those two.





