03-17-2007, 01:46 PM
Quote:With its growth, SermonSpice's relationship with osCommerce also came to an end. "That was kind of a mistake," Temple says. "It wasn't well designed. It wasn't built for plugins. It works really great if you don't need to adjust it -- if you don't have more than 20 people on your cart." OsCommerce was making too many queries to the database per transaction, hogging CPU time in the process.
"I would have been happy to go to another open source product and develop on top of it," Temple says, "but none of the open source carts were scalable. They weren't thought out."
Temple instead turned to PinnacleCart, a proprietary application that's built on PHP and provides the source code to its licensed customers. PinnacleCart, says Temple, is well-planned, scalable without too many alterations, and well-coded, which makes for easy customizations. And Temple likes the fact that he can pick up the phone and get immediate support.
Even with his less than stellar experience with osCommerce's pure open source application, Temple still feels favorable toward free software...
full article: http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22128