Re: [findings] minimal open source e-commerce software for pg

On Sunday 08 February 2009 10:56:42 am Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:43:10 +0100
>
> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it> wrote:
> > I need to build up a minimal e-commerce website on a host that is
> > already running postgresql.
> >
> > Requirement is minimal. Usual configurable pretty standard
> > couple of paying/shipping system and popular enough to find
> > cheap/free skins and very basic cms feature to display no more than
> > 4-5 pages.
> >
> > This has to be a quick and dirty job and the actual requirement are
> > just the above.
>
> After googling and downloading some of the most popular open source
> ecommerce software I didn't find any that works out of the box with
> PostgreSQL.
> Theoretically since drupal support postgresql ecommerce and ubercart
> modules, they should support postgresql too. But that's just theory,
> reality is different.
>
> BTW I just put a B2B ecommerce engine in production that use drupal
> as the output layer and strictly PostgreSQL for all the business
> logic.
> When I had to choose the DB... PostgreSQL really seemed the best
> candidate (maybe the only in the open source world).
> I consider ecommerce more similar to accounting than cms, and in fact
> among accounting programs Postgresql is much more popular.
>
> That's why I'm pretty surprised I couldn't find any open source
> product that could run out of the box.
>
> I'm so surprised I'm thinking I didn't do well my homework and I'm
> still here to ask if anyone know any open source ecommerce software
> that run on PostgreSQL out of the box.
>
>
> --
> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
> http://www.webthatworks.it

Have you looked at Satchmo. It runs on the Django framework.
http://www.satchmoproject.com/

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