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And Now You Can Sell Things with Open Source, Too. Introducing Magento

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Matt Asay
Jan 19, 2008

“Jack Aboutboul at Red Hat clued me into an interesting
open-source ecommerce platform today. Called Magento, it’s built by
Varien and is ‘a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce
solution offering merchants complete flexibility and control over
the look, content, and functionality of their online store.’

“Put in English, Magento is an open-source solution for setting
up and managing an online store…”

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