Wednesday 29 April 2015

Why Magento Development is Fastest Growing Platform for Online Commerce

Do you know what Magento is? Magento is a powerful open source e-commerce web application. It is widely used ecommerce content management system based on PHP and MYSQL programming language.

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History

Magento was launched on March 31,2008 under the name Bento. FileMaker Inc. had already copyright the name Bento, Varien and osCommerce so Bento was renamed to Magento i.e. a mix of Bento and Mage. The term Mage is said to pay homage to Wizard of traditional D&D style role playing games. In Feb 2011, eBay announced that they have a worth of 49% ownership with the company and within four months (June 6,2011) of time frame ebayowns Magento 100%.

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