i've just read the rest of the mails and must admit i am more than dismayed.
the shopping cart is SIMPLE, and if you can be bothered is easy to set up
and code.
That is if you know how to develop. It is easy for a developer. but most people
who want a store are not developers.
store want. They do not support the number of operating systems that we
do, and are no where near as easy to install.
what operating systems do you support ? all the operating systems that php
runs on perhaps ?
web servers running on Windows NT® 3.51 and 4.0 Intel machines as well as Windows® 95. It is also supported on SCO UNIXWARE 7.x (not SCO OPENSERVER), FreeBSD, BSDI (4.x only), Linux on Intel, Cobalt (RAQ2, RAQ3 or RAQ4 only) and Solaris on Sparc (not Intel), Netscape, Zeus and Apache 1.36 and above. On Windows, it will run on NSAPI/ISAPI compliant (Apache, Zeus, Netscape, Microsoft, O'Reilly) web servers. The current installation program supports Netscape Commerce, Communications, Fasttrack, Enterprise, Apache, Microsoft IIS and Personal Web Servers as well as O'Reilly Web Site Professional.
A new CGI loader now allows it to run on servers that do not have an API. We call this the CGIAPI and effectively gives non-API web servers the speed benefits.
Not only that... we are Rock Solid on IIS, which php is not. I do know what I am talking about.
You get what you pay for.. right.. you don't pay for Linux, you don't pay
for PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and many other products your using. Do you
believe they suck too????
It is a matter of preference... I think that linux and postgres are really
cool. MySQL bites. :-P I am not saying that all open source stuff suck,
just the open source php merchants. My comment was directed at the
merchant.
what's an open source merchant ?
what we are talking about.... and open source e-commerce product.
Open source is not the only way. With our merchant you get the source code
to modify and suit your needs. Not only that... we maintain and provide
updates. We do not leave people hanging. We add features that our
customers want and we fix the bugs in the code, and
support installs. Try getting that with opensource. There are user groups
and mailing lists, which will try and help you through
but there is nothing that beats, support. We provide documentation,
installations, and free support by the people who wrote
the thing in a timely manner.
you've just described open source products pretty well. you get all that
with open source without NEEDING your merchant.
no you don't. You get the information if someone responds. When does
someone install something on your machine or use remote access to fix
an installation problem that you caused. You have no idea what you talking about.
i'm afraid that this seems to be another way for people to climb on the back
of open source products and try and cream a living from seeling something
that is/was/should be free.
I don't have a problem with open source. But to say that open source is better
all the time is non-sense, especially when you do not know that product that I
am talking about.
I know for a fact that as of right now there is NO <-- can you read this?? free ecommerce
product that has as many features as our product. If you do not believe me then
check out. www.ihtmlmerchant.com mercent.inline.net/store1
Now when you have checked this out you can apologize for your ignorance.
If you don't believe that our support is tops. Then you can ask our users.
true, if you've invested time and want compensating for that time then
charge. but don't pretend it's better, or unique, or that you offer anything
that can't be found for no cost.
Steve