I recently spent some time comparing current e-commerce platforms (a.k.a. shopping carts). It’s a complicated area, so I thought I’d share my findings here in case they can be useful to others.
These are my opinions and analysis based on my own (limited) research and experimentation and are biased towards sites targeting a UK market.
First Things [...]
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Here’s a nice article on selling expensive, niche software.
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Here’s a post about Outside.in recently switching from PHP to Rails.Interestingly, they cite access to GIS functionality as one reason for the switch.After the switch, their hosting costs were roughly the same as before and their codebase was down to just 20% of its former size!
