Comments on: Magento alternative, Oxid? http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid Blog site of Branko Ajzele, web application developer. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jazkat http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-4620 jazkat Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:54:33 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-4620 Hi guys,<br>I'm just wondering, since so much time has passed, what you think of this Oxid or any other open-source ecart as a replacement for Magento? How about PrestaShop?<br>Cheers Hi guys,
I'm just wondering, since so much time has passed, what you think of this Oxid or any other open-source ecart as a replacement for Magento? How about PrestaShop?
Cheers

]]> By: Michael http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-4384 Michael Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:28:20 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-4384 Hi branko, thank you very much for these articles. I have been researching magento since yesterday and I have to say that the amount of negative feedback has me worried a little about investing time to learn it. I'm curious as if you've tried to play with Agent-Ohm and if yes, what do you think of it? Hi branko, thank you very much for these articles. I have been researching magento since yesterday and I have to say that the amount of negative feedback has me worried a little about investing time to learn it.

I’m curious as if you’ve tried to play with Agent-Ohm and if yes, what do you think of it?

]]> By: Victor http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-4234 Victor Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:19 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-4234 OXID is a viable alternative to Magento. There. For one thing OXID handles variants (configurable products) so much better. It also allows you to manage inventory per product variant. Product and option setup is also a breeze - you are not stuck with having to install patches and hacks just to change where your product belongs or what type of product it is. Magento is truly byzantine in that way - heaven forbid if your business grows or changes, or you'll have to spend a week redoing everything. There are no bundle products in OXID, but due to the severe inventory management defficiency in Magento, bundled products are not that useful. And the last and possibly the most important thing why OXID is better than Magento is that I spent 30 minutes administering the installation. 30 minutes. Magento literally takes months to set up and work out a reliable maintenance and update procedure. Magento is alluring due to its complexity and seeming power, but at the moment it is deeply flawed by its nearly impossible to manage templates, huge resource footprint and missing features that negate many of the promisses of the, in some ways more powerful Magento shop. In contrast, template editing and expansion in OXID is ridiculously simple. The Smarty tags are simply awesome. I will of course keep working on and following Magento - perhaps the v1.4 has some real improvements. And one last and really important thing... OXID is fast. really fast. OXID is a viable alternative to Magento.

There.

For one thing OXID handles variants (configurable products) so much better. It also allows you to manage inventory per product variant.

Product and option setup is also a breeze – you are not stuck with having to install patches and hacks just to change where your product belongs or what type of product it is. Magento is truly byzantine in that way – heaven forbid if your business grows or changes, or you’ll have to spend a week redoing everything.

There are no bundle products in OXID, but due to the severe inventory management defficiency in Magento, bundled products are not that useful.

And the last and possibly the most important thing why OXID is better than Magento is that I spent 30 minutes administering the installation. 30 minutes. Magento literally takes months to set up and work out a reliable maintenance and update procedure.

Magento is alluring due to its complexity and seeming power, but at the moment it is deeply flawed by its nearly impossible to manage templates, huge resource footprint and missing features that negate many of the promisses of the, in some ways more powerful Magento shop.

In contrast, template editing and expansion in OXID is ridiculously simple. The Smarty tags are simply awesome.

I will of course keep working on and following Magento – perhaps the v1.4 has some real improvements.

And one last and really important thing… OXID is fast. really fast.

]]> By: Victor http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-5559 Victor Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:42:00 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-5559 OXID is a viable alternative to Magento. There. For one thing OXID handles variants (configurable products) so much better. It also allows you to manage inventory per product variant. Product and option setup is also a breeze - you are not stuck with having to install patches and hacks just to change where your product belongs or what type of product it is. Magento is truly byzantine in that way - heaven forbid if your business grows or changes, or you'll have to spend a week redoing everything. There are no bundle products in OXID, but due to the severe inventory management defficiency in Magento, bundled products are not that useful. And the last and possibly the most important thing why OXID is better than Magento is that I spent 30 minutes administering the installation. 30 minutes. Magento literally takes months to set up and work out a reliable maintenance and update procedure. Magento is alluring due to its complexity and seeming power, but at the moment it is deeply flawed by its nearly impossible to manage templates, huge resource footprint and missing features that negate many of the promisses of the, in some ways more powerful Magento shop. In contrast, template editing and expansion in OXID is ridiculously simple. The Smarty tags are simply awesome. I will of course keep working on and following Magento - perhaps the v1.4 has some real improvements. And one last and really important thing... OXID is fast. really fast. OXID is a viable alternative to Magento.

There.

For one thing OXID handles variants (configurable products) so much better. It also allows you to manage inventory per product variant.

Product and option setup is also a breeze – you are not stuck with having to install patches and hacks just to change where your product belongs or what type of product it is. Magento is truly byzantine in that way – heaven forbid if your business grows or changes, or you’ll have to spend a week redoing everything.

There are no bundle products in OXID, but due to the severe inventory management defficiency in Magento, bundled products are not that useful.

And the last and possibly the most important thing why OXID is better than Magento is that I spent 30 minutes administering the installation. 30 minutes. Magento literally takes months to set up and work out a reliable maintenance and update procedure.

Magento is alluring due to its complexity and seeming power, but at the moment it is deeply flawed by its nearly impossible to manage templates, huge resource footprint and missing features that negate many of the promisses of the, in some ways more powerful Magento shop.

In contrast, template editing and expansion in OXID is ridiculously simple. The Smarty tags are simply awesome.

I will of course keep working on and following Magento – perhaps the v1.4 has some real improvements.

And one last and really important thing… OXID is fast. really fast.

]]> By: robert maskell http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-4135 robert maskell Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:29:45 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-4135 What are your thoughts on Interchange (www.icdevgroup.com) we are currently using x-cart v4 and waiting on v5 as well as evaluating Magento and Oxid. What are your thoughts on Interchange (www.icdevgroup.com) we are currently using x-cart v4 and waiting on v5 as well as evaluating Magento and Oxid.

]]> By: robert maskell http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-5558 robert maskell Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:29:00 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-5558 What are your thoughts on Interchange (www.icdevgroup.com) we are currently using x-cart v4 and waiting on v5 as well as evaluating Magento and Oxid. What are your thoughts on Interchange (www.icdevgroup.com) we are currently using x-cart v4 and waiting on v5 as well as evaluating Magento and Oxid.

]]> By: Jared http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-3996 Jared Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:37:40 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-3996 Magento is so massively riddled with bugs, it's not even funny. The fact that they are offering an "Enterprise Edition" and that anyone would even consider it "Enterprise" quality software is beyond me. While an excellent system on many levels, Magento is far from Enterprise class. They can't even get their taxing to work properly and their coupon promotion logic continually breaks with every new release. Since taxes and promotional logic are two of the most important aspects of ecommerce, how can anyone consider Magento enterprise ready. I would not recommend Magento to anyone looking for a serious ecommerce platform unless they have a specific need that cannot be delivered by any other platform. On top of that, I can least plenty of features not available in Magento. Perhaps the biggest is the lack of support for recurring billing. That being said, I don't think Oxid is a legitimate alternative to Magento. Magento is so massively riddled with bugs, it’s not even funny. The fact that they are offering an “Enterprise Edition” and that anyone would even consider it “Enterprise” quality software is beyond me. While an excellent system on many levels, Magento is far from Enterprise class. They can’t even get their taxing to work properly and their coupon promotion logic continually breaks with every new release. Since taxes and promotional logic are two of the most important aspects of ecommerce, how can anyone consider Magento enterprise ready.

I would not recommend Magento to anyone looking for a serious ecommerce platform unless they have a specific need that cannot be delivered by any other platform. On top of that, I can least plenty of features not available in Magento. Perhaps the biggest is the lack of support for recurring billing.

That being said, I don’t think Oxid is a legitimate alternative to Magento.

]]> By: Jared http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-5557 Jared Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:37:00 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-5557 Magento is so massively riddled with bugs, it's not even funny. The fact that they are offering an "Enterprise Edition" and that anyone would even consider it "Enterprise" quality software is beyond me. While an excellent system on many levels, Magento is far from Enterprise class. They can't even get their taxing to work properly and their coupon promotion logic continually breaks with every new release. Since taxes and promotional logic are two of the most important aspects of ecommerce, how can anyone consider Magento enterprise ready. I would not recommend Magento to anyone looking for a serious ecommerce platform unless they have a specific need that cannot be delivered by any other platform. On top of that, I can least plenty of features not available in Magento. Perhaps the biggest is the lack of support for recurring billing. That being said, I don't think Oxid is a legitimate alternative to Magento. Magento is so massively riddled with bugs, it’s not even funny. The fact that they are offering an “Enterprise Edition” and that anyone would even consider it “Enterprise” quality software is beyond me. While an excellent system on many levels, Magento is far from Enterprise class. They can’t even get their taxing to work properly and their coupon promotion logic continually breaks with every new release. Since taxes and promotional logic are two of the most important aspects of ecommerce, how can anyone consider Magento enterprise ready.

I would not recommend Magento to anyone looking for a serious ecommerce platform unless they have a specific need that cannot be delivered by any other platform. On top of that, I can least plenty of features not available in Magento. Perhaps the biggest is the lack of support for recurring billing.

That being said, I don’t think Oxid is a legitimate alternative to Magento.

]]> By: David http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-3972 David Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:23:54 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-3972 Magento is not yet code ready, a lot of bugs, slow, upgrade is pain in the ass, code is a mess, no docs, support is overpriced. Magento is generally for small businesses and startups often too costly, too complex and too difficult to implement. Oxid is mature, easy to follow and they are more than 10 years on the field. You don't need to think twice to choose. Varien company is just marketing than good coding and will be long way before will be Magento ready. Magento is not yet code ready, a lot of bugs, slow, upgrade is pain in the ass, code is a mess, no docs, support is overpriced. Magento is generally for small businesses and startups often too costly, too complex and too difficult to implement.

Oxid is mature, easy to follow and they are more than 10 years on the field. You don’t need to think twice to choose.

Varien company is just marketing than good coding and will be long way before will be Magento ready.

]]> By: David http://activecodeline.com/magento-alternative-oxid/comment-page-1#comment-5556 David Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:23:00 +0000 http://activecodeline.com/?p=745#comment-5556 Magento is not yet code ready, a lot of bugs, slow, upgrade is pain in the ass, code is a mess, no docs, support is overpriced. Magento is generally for small businesses and startups often too costly, too complex and too difficult to implement. Oxid is mature, easy to follow and they are more than 10 years on the field. You don't need to think twice to choose. Varien company is just marketing than good coding and will be long way before will be Magento ready. Magento is not yet code ready, a lot of bugs, slow, upgrade is pain in the ass, code is a mess, no docs, support is overpriced. Magento is generally for small businesses and startups often too costly, too complex and too difficult to implement.

Oxid is mature, easy to follow and they are more than 10 years on the field. You don’t need to think twice to choose.

Varien company is just marketing than good coding and will be long way before will be Magento ready.

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