Magento Ecommerce is often considered as a big threat to osCommerce. Most people think that Magento is far better than osCommerce when it comes to flexibility, ease of use and tons of other useful features such as easy navigations, easy customization, very friendly admin area, ease of doing changes in one go to entire site, no need for further optimization, payment gateway features along with others.

Though, relatively a new kid on the block but a kid with enough potential to change the definition of a true eCommerce enabled and user friendly open source web application for people with business and promotion in mind. Without much difficulty and extra efforts, you can convert Magento into a fully functional eCommerce website with free online shopping cart with almost no programming knowledge.

Some other useful features of Magento are easy track for online order history, a complete shopping cart full of features, full search capability, no requirement for further optimization, with product reviews along with secure payment and online transactions. Although, ever since the launch of osCommerce it was considered as the future of eCommerce but with a recent launch of Magento experts are strongly feeling that only Magento has the potential to become future of osCommerce. That’s because in Magento all the drawbacks of osCommerce have been removed.

Apart from these reasons, osCommerce has witnessed a slow growth and lack of constant upgradation, can be attributed to the fact that if things will go at this pace then without any second thought osCommerce is bound to die/become dead. Until now only a few technical people and community members were concerned about the future of osCommerce but now even common tech-savvy people are very much sure that soon osCommerce would die if its further versions like Alpha 5 and 6 take more time.

Off late we have seen that major open source applications like osCommerce, Zen Cart, and CRE Loaded enjoying much name and fame. It seems that their success hit on their mind and they didn’t care about their own future. As a big testament to this, recently we have seen many similar but well thought out open source applications have sprung up in marketplace with new features, looks and theme. Some of the most popular names are Prestashop, Ubercart and Magento (chances are at the time of publishing this page a few more might have born, no pun intended).

Most of these open source eCommerce Web 2.0 compliant carts are well built, well thought out, carefully planned, ready to use and fully grown-up competitors. On the first look they appear to be a great threat to all old kids which have been tried and tested in the marketplace. Though it too early to comment on anything but most of these eCommerce enabled applications are with shopping carts and payment gateways along with SEO compliant platform, which may pose a serious threat to osCommerce and other commercially available eCommerce programs. They are easy to use, better performer, and freely available on the Internet these days. So there won’t be any exaggeration if we treat them as a challenge for relatively older osCommerce.

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