Home » plug blogs » gebaird's blog

FOSS e-commerce

Submitted by gebaird on Thu, 2007-12-20 14:32.

I recently started working for a company that is badly in need of a new shopping cart solution. I think FOSS has something to offer for our $100 million/year enterprise, but I need to convince others. I have looked into some Java-based open source carts, like Apache OFBiz, but I'm somewhat new to e-commerce having spent much of my career in middleware and back-end development. I would appreciate some input from experienced members of PLUG about what shopping cart to recommend and how to sell my executives on FOSS. We need a stable and feature-rich cart that can be heavily customized to fit our environment.

Thanks

» gebaird's blog | login or register to post comments

I feel the best way to

Submitted by freedomx on Tue, 2010-07-27 10:15.

I feel the best way to approach executives is to show the benefits to them, using the same language they use, that is savings in time and money for using FOSS. You might want to also point out that open source solutions are just as good, if not better, than some of the non-open source software. By using a compare and contrast approach, you can demonstrate to them why one option is better than another option, and thus they will see for themselves which is the better option.

» login or register to post comments