E Commerce Run Down
January 2, 2010
I don’t get asked too often about search for eCommerce systems. I have had questions about specific issues at certain companies, but I don’t pay that much attention to looking up matches for “jumpers” in product indexes. I took a long look at the little known Dieselpoint, an XML centric vendor that does some work in eCommerce, but I have to admit I don’t work overtime to keep pace with catalog searching.
For that reason, I found the article in eCommerce Guide quite useful. You may want to take a look at “Open Source E-Commerce: Winners and Losers in 2009”. There is a useful list of vendors plus helpful descriptions and links. For me the most important aspect of the listing was its focus on open source solutions.
There was some turmoil in the eCommerce commercial sector in 2009. Mercado and Endeca were both affected. A number of other vendors like EasyAsk.com dropped off my radar. In fact, I heard that Progress Software was falling in love with another vendor’s search system. I don’t have any details, but this may be worth watching in 2010. Progress is an interesting company, and it seems to be making its roll up strategy pay off despite the engineering challenges of integrating different components and services.
The eCommerce Guide round up solidified some of my unrelated thoughts with this comment:
Magento is far and away the winner in the page popularity contest, more than doubling the number of pages over the past year. This is a rate of nearly a half million pages added each month. Magento 1.0 was released in March, 2008.
Mageneto, an eCommerce platform for growth, seems to be an open source play that warrants observation. The company reports more than one million downloads, but does not provide a time span. Its customers include Lenovo, 3M, and Samsung, among others. Interesting indeed.
Stephen E. Arnold, January 2, 2010
A freebie. No one paid me to write this. I shall report this to the US Department of Agriculture when Washington wakes up on January 3, 2010 or perhaps a few days later.
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