Etailer improves sales results using Open Source Interchange Shopping Cart

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Article profiles a leading web retailer using "free" open source software to improve its results.  The company is using the open source Interchange shopping cart system to power their site.

By 2000, the company was netting $3 million a year, and Bresee knew that he needed a more comprehensive e-commerce system. "We looked at WebSphere, Oracle and others, but we just didn't have the money," he says. Then he came across Red Hat Inc., which was developing an open-source e-commerce platform called Interchange. Because the dot-com world was showing signs of deterioration, with software startups quickly going out of business, Bresee realized he'd need a system that would allow him to control the source code. "Otherwise we could get stuck," he says....

Unlike proprietary systems, which place customization restrictions on users and often require heavy license fees, open-source software allows users to make and distribute copies of applications, share source code freely and improve or customize software as needed—at a fraction of the cost of proprietary software...

full article: http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,154...011,00.asp

Interchange web site: http://www.icdevgroup.org/
Interchange demo: http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/demo?id=eFMLNKsk&mv_pc=20

FYI: TulipTools user bargainbloodhound is developing a new site using Interchange.  Ask them questions.