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Chemo,

I can only agree with what you say, nothing for me to argue on. However, I believe there are businesses for which a guaranteed support directly from software vendor may be important - as a service for which the timeframe and quality is guaranteed by documented agreements etc. And, in general, as there are 3-5 most popular open source project in each category (you gave a good example), a choice of commercial solutions is much wider. And they're often developed more regularly - osCommerce is a good example of how long it took them to move from one major branch to another.

Again, I don't mean you're wrong in any way - still, there wouldn't be any paid software without a reason people often choose it.

 

Agreed.

For mission critical servers I always recommend RHEL versus centOS, LiteSpeed or Zeus webserver versus Apache, and Oracle versus MySQL. The reason is as you cited: guaranteed support and service level agreements (SLA's).

In the world of eCommerce there are all flavors of startups. Some have proper capitalization and can afford a commercial application from the start whereas others operate thin and take advantage of FOSS applications at the cost of no SLA.

 

I used PayPal with my web hosting site. It was easy and quick.

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Hey guys, thanks for the replies, they are so helpful to know.

I have finished doing my cms for my website, and now want to invest my time into ecommerce/online transaction. I have someone who wants a website with an online shop but man there is so much to choose from.

I know how to use paypal, but I want to add a chart and make it customizable to my design.

Do you have to pay a license for magneto, if I make it customizable to my client's or my design?

Thanks.