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
>
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