Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008 under the name Bento. It was developed by Varien (now Magento, a division of eBay) with help from the programmers within the open source community but is now owned solely by eBay Inc.

Magento was built using parts of the Zend Framework. It uses the entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data. (__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magento)

Sample Frontend

Sample Backend

There are three different editions:

1) Magento Community Edition  __open source software and can be downloaded for free.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/download

2) Magento Enterprise Edition __the high performance, scalable eCommerce solution for fast-growing and large businesses.

http://enterprise.magento.com/

3) Magento Go __hosted eCommerce solution for small businesses just getting started in eCommerce.

http://go.magento.com/tour/

With thousands of great eCommerce extensions(both free or paid version for all three editions) to pick from Magento-Connect.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/

Demo Site(Enterprise)

Front End – http://enterprise-demo.user.magentotrial.com/

Back End  – http://enterprise-admin.user.magentotrial.com/admin

The Magento Community Edition has been downloaded over 4 Million times, giving Magento almost 10% of the eCommerce market share globally. In addition to this over 200,000 Merchants are reported to be using the Magento Platform and have 5,000+ plugins available to extend their eCommerce experiance. (__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magento)

This is just a look through about an e-commerce software named Magento.

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