osCommerce is Dead: Long Live the NEW osCommerce Project

“Over the years, the unyielding management of the founder,
Harald Ponce de Leon, forced team after team of developers to
resign. A team of only two or three developers including Ponce de
Leon have been ostensibly been working on the project for the past
year, and one of them, Wendy James, was not active. Two weeks ago
the only active member of the team Frank Heinen, resigned and Ponce
de Leon fired the other, leaving founder Ponce de Leon as the sole
remaining developer.

“Hail the New King: the osCommerce Project
“The New “osCommerce Project” domain name was registered on
November 1, and the project was registered a few days later with
SourceForge, the official repository for all open source
development projects. The official description of “The osCommerce
Project” on Sourceforge.net is “a new project dedicated to
providing an alternative and active development stream to the old
osCommerce project. Active members of the new project contain
ex-Team Members of the old project as well as new active core
members.”

“Long-time team member and prolific forum poster and moderator
Rhea Anthony, also known as Vger in the old and new forums, heads
the team comprised of Bobby Easland (Chemo) – the best coder NEVER
to have been made a Team Member of the old project; Rob of FWR
Media; Pierre Rollins (The Bear); Edith Karnitsch (Terra) publisher
of major updates to the osCommerce Pay Pal IPN module; and Monika
Mathis (Monika in Germany), author of “Deep Inside osCommerce: The
Cookbook.”

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