Thread: minimal open source e-commerce software for pg
I need to build up a minimal e-commerce website on a host that is already running postgresql. Requirement is minimal. Usual configurable pretty standard couple of paying/shipping system and popular enough to find cheap/free skins and very basic cms feature to display no more than 4-5 pages. This has to be a quick and dirty job and the actual requirement are just the above. thanks -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:43:10 +0100 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote: > I need to build up a minimal e-commerce website on a host that is > already running postgresql. > > Requirement is minimal. Usual configurable pretty standard > couple of paying/shipping system and popular enough to find > cheap/free skins and very basic cms feature to display no more than > 4-5 pages. > > This has to be a quick and dirty job and the actual requirement are > just the above. After googling and downloading some of the most popular open source ecommerce software I didn't find any that works out of the box with PostgreSQL. Theoretically since drupal support postgresql ecommerce and ubercart modules, they should support postgresql too. But that's just theory, reality is different. BTW I just put a B2B ecommerce engine in production that use drupal as the output layer and strictly PostgreSQL for all the business logic. When I had to choose the DB... PostgreSQL really seemed the best candidate (maybe the only in the open source world). I consider ecommerce more similar to accounting than cms, and in fact among accounting programs Postgresql is much more popular. That's why I'm pretty surprised I couldn't find any open source product that could run out of the box. I'm so surprised I'm thinking I didn't do well my homework and I'm still here to ask if anyone know any open source ecommerce software that run on PostgreSQL out of the box. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it
On Sunday 08 February 2009 10:56:42 am Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:43:10 +0100 > > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote: > > I need to build up a minimal e-commerce website on a host that is > > already running postgresql. > > > > Requirement is minimal. Usual configurable pretty standard > > couple of paying/shipping system and popular enough to find > > cheap/free skins and very basic cms feature to display no more than > > 4-5 pages. > > > > This has to be a quick and dirty job and the actual requirement are > > just the above. > > After googling and downloading some of the most popular open source > ecommerce software I didn't find any that works out of the box with > PostgreSQL. > Theoretically since drupal support postgresql ecommerce and ubercart > modules, they should support postgresql too. But that's just theory, > reality is different. > > BTW I just put a B2B ecommerce engine in production that use drupal > as the output layer and strictly PostgreSQL for all the business > logic. > When I had to choose the DB... PostgreSQL really seemed the best > candidate (maybe the only in the open source world). > I consider ecommerce more similar to accounting than cms, and in fact > among accounting programs Postgresql is much more popular. > > That's why I'm pretty surprised I couldn't find any open source > product that could run out of the box. > > I'm so surprised I'm thinking I didn't do well my homework and I'm > still here to ask if anyone know any open source ecommerce software > that run on PostgreSQL out of the box. > > > -- > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > http://www.webthatworks.it Have you looked at Satchmo. It runs on the Django framework. http://www.satchmoproject.com/ -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@comcast.net
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:13:26 -0800 Adrian Klaver <aklaver@comcast.net> wrote: > Have you looked at Satchmo. It runs on the Django framework. > http://www.satchmoproject.com/ Nice project. Something I certainly would look at to learn something, but it doesn't fit my current bill. I also knew http://ofbiz.apache.org/ and actually I used it to learn something already... but well neither this fit the bill. thanks -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:43:10 +0100 > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote: > >> I need to build up a minimal e-commerce website on a host that is >> already running postgresql. >> >> Requirement is minimal. Usual configurable pretty standard >> couple of paying/shipping system and popular enough to find >> cheap/free skins and very basic cms feature to display no more than >> 4-5 pages. >> >> This has to be a quick and dirty job and the actual requirement are >> just the above. > > After googling and downloading some of the most popular open source > ecommerce software I didn't find any that works out of the box with > PostgreSQL. > Theoretically since drupal support postgresql ecommerce and ubercart > modules, they should support postgresql too. But that's just theory, > reality is different. > > BTW I just put a B2B ecommerce engine in production that use drupal > as the output layer and strictly PostgreSQL for all the business > logic. > When I had to choose the DB... PostgreSQL really seemed the best > candidate (maybe the only in the open source world). > I consider ecommerce more similar to accounting than cms, and in fact > among accounting programs Postgresql is much more popular. > > That's why I'm pretty surprised I couldn't find any open source > product that could run out of the box. > > I'm so surprised I'm thinking I didn't do well my homework and I'm > still here to ask if anyone know any open source ecommerce software > that run on PostgreSQL out of the box. > > may be too heavy, but Apache OFBiz quotes support for PostgreSQL http://ofbiz.apache.org/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 > After googling and downloading some of the most popular open source > ecommerce software I didn't find any that works out of the box with > PostgreSQL. Have you looked at Interchange? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_(software) http://www.icdevgroup.org/ - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com End Point Corporation PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200902131158 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAkmVps8ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsguGACgvcDGsH5u0rbwQLMpTTFFQ4gP pEgAniVozsijGXjaiky/L5H5GUvPOMnl =2kf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:59:52 -0000 "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> wrote: > > After googling and downloading some of the most popular open > > source ecommerce software I didn't find any that works out of > > the box with PostgreSQL. > > Have you looked at Interchange? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_(software) > > http://www.icdevgroup.org/ Some more stuff to learn from... Anyway I decided I really liked my larger e-commerce project and adapted it so that it could fit even for b2c, smaller sites. That stuff is GPL I just don't dare to publish it till it will be clean enough I won't see a too fast improvement I can't handle on the project that originated all this. So, sooner or later there will be one more Free e-commerce project based on postgresql around. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it