[ic] Interchange, RedHat & the future

Miles Clark interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Sep 27 15:18:01 2002


Hi All -

I'm new to Interchange, and am evaluating it as a commerce platform for 
my company.  I had a few general questions that I'd through out to the 
list & see if anyone had any input.

* How scalable is Interchange?  Has it been used in production with 
20,000 - 30,000 products?  How'd it perform?

* How customizable/extendable is Interchange?  How difficult is it to 
add new ITL tags?  Create a library of templates that customers can 
select from?  Add new payment processors?  Integrate with other web 
services (particularly J2EE services)?

* What are Interchange's weak spots?  

What I'm looking for is a little advocacy.  So far, I've been really 
impressed, but would like to know what issues I'm likely to run into 
should we commit to the product.

One other question - as I was scanning the lists, I noticed that RedHat 
disbanded it's ecommerce division (& active support of Interchange) this 
last summer.  Why?  Were there issues with Interchange specifically? 
 Did they find a replacement they liked better? General business climate?  

Thanks in advance for any input!

Miles