Still about. Looking after a motley bunch of Lx on clients systems: RHEL, Debian, SLES and Ubuntu LTS - even four ancient Slackwares and two ancient Gentoos! At home cranked up my iBook running Dapper the other day - still looking pretty good. Pre-teen had her eyes on it until she heard that it wont run Youtube *or* The Sims :-) On Mar 2, 2012 9:57 AM, "Steve Holdoway" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 09:47 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 2 March 2012 09:37, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Magento is the second one. For eCommerce, what else would you use. > Tuned > > > right, it really flies which is what Google tells you is important... > > > tenths of a second count! I love it. > > > > Be careful with that, I've heard nasty horror stories as to what > > happens as your product database grows. My contacts who've had to work > > with it tell me it really doesn't scale well. > > > > That, and Magento last I checked was basically a lot of pretty veneer > > bolted on top of the old "osCommerce" , which is a delightful piece of > > work I'm proud to say I refuse to touch again with a barge pole as the > > code that makes it work is an unholy atrocity. > > > > And I think Perl is awesome, so use *That* as your comparison point ;) > > > Perl, I remember the day Larry Wall sold it to an idiotic public... > yeuch! The world has been a bit less understandable ever since. > > Magento *does* scale well. We just fixed one for a Swiss company that > ran it's site in 3 languages... which multiplied its catalogue up to > about a quarter of a million products. Dual quad core Xeons and 16GB > memory barely get warm now. (BTW that's what *they* wanted, just in > case). Also fixed daily deals site: previous setup: vmware 24 cores, 64 > GB memory. Now uses 10 cores, 4GB when on TV! Shame they got roped into > a 2 year contract... > > Magento is built on top of the Zend framework. It has absolutely nothing > to do with osc, zencart, or any of the previous generation. Except > learning from it's mistakes (: > > Cheers, > > Steve > > -- > Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> > http://www.greengecko.co.nz > MSN: [email protected] > Skype: sholdowa > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > >
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