minimal open source e-commerce software for pg

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:43:10 +0100
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.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

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@webthatworks.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/

--
Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:43:10 +0100
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.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.

may be too heavy, but Apache OFBiz quotes support for PostgreSQL
http://ofbiz.apache.org/

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 11:13:26 -0800
Adrian Klaver <aklaver@comcast.net> wrote:

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

Nice project. Something I certainly would look at to learn
something, but it doesn't fit my current bill.

I also knew http://ofbiz.apache.org/ and actually I used it to learn
something already... but well neither this fit the bill.

thanks

--
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it

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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.

Have you looked at Interchange?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_(software)

http://www.icdevgroup.org/

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:59:52 -0000
"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:

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.

Have you looked at Interchange?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_(software)

http://www.icdevgroup.org/

Some more stuff to learn from...

Anyway I decided I really liked my larger e-commerce project and
adapted it so that it could fit even for b2c, smaller sites.

That stuff is GPL I just don't dare to publish it till it will
be clean enough I won't see a too fast improvement I can't handle on
the project that originated all this.

So, sooner or later there will be one more Free e-commerce project
based on postgresql around.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it