Ecommerce-guide: Live Help the Open Source Way | Linux Today

Ecommerce-guide: Live Help the Open Source Way

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 8, 2007

“There’s little doubt that many e-commerce businesses embrace
open source applications such as OS Commerce. The problem is that
using open source software isn’t for the faint of heart as you need
a certain level of technical expertise to deploy and manage these
applications.

“While you don’t have to pay to use open source applications,
providing the integration, implementation and maintenance for the
servers hosting the ‘free’ software can be costly and
time-consuming…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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