We at onlinebase.nl also have made our own shoppingcart, built in CFML that runs on both ACF and Railo, and MySQL as well as MSSQL.
Saying that the USD 200,- that Mary Jo asks for her CFWebstore is too much seems like an oddity to me. If the customer cannot pay USD 200,- for the licence, how on earth is the customer able to pay for the consultant/developer fees for installing and modifying the webshop if needed? Having seen Magento, osCommerce and other OSS webshops I must say I'm impressed with the magnitude of fucntionality. But as with any customer, it never really is what the customer needs. Be it extra or improved/changed functionality or a custom paint job. Just last year we won a large bid for a customer wanting a lot of customization for a new webshop (http://molitli.nl/). Even though the OSS PHP versions came fully loaded, changing he codebase to fit the needs of the customer was as expensive as refactoring a version of our own webshop. Much like many customers of Mary Jo do with CFWebstore. Upgrading OSS webshops when they've been carefully modified is also a b***h, coting many billable hours for the client. I've seen many aspiring CF-OSS webshops of late, but none have really taken the step into a fully functional webshop. CFCartweaver has been revived (at least so I assume seeing all the mails and updates coming out lately). Charlie Griefer has an extensive list over at his site (http://charlie.griefer.com/) and Raymond Camden started a thread over at his site a year back: http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/3/27/Call-for-Help-Web-shops-using-ColdFusion All in all I'd be in favour of making one CF OSS webshop, but not sure how and why people would contribute seeing as it might nibble away at their own profit. Setting up a webshop let alone building it is a mammoth task at times, but I'd be willing to chime in if more people join such a project. BTW: On Riaforge I could only find two CF OSS webshop alternatives..., http://cfcommerce.riaforge.org/ (no activitiy) and http://opene.riaforge.org/ (no activity). Sebastiaan Naafs - van Dijk ================================= So long and thanx 4 all the fish ==> Onlinebase.nl > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:35:58 -0400 > Subject: Re: CF Shopping carts > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > @Eric Roberts > * > * > Yea, that has been my experience with all the carts I have used as well. > > I have used OsCommerce, as well as the various flavors-- ZEN cart, CRE > Loaded etc.. and they all have big requirements-- some hosts just will not > run them. > > Although I have been successful using them, they all have their > shortcomings-- convoluted code structures being the worst part. > > -- > /Kevin Pepperman > > "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, > deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334836 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
