[ic] Interchange, RedHat & the future
Aaron Hazelton
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Sep 27 15:41:01 2002
Miles Clark wrote:
> 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?
>
I currently have a production store with over 42,000 items on IC 4.8.3
I have never been happier, things are running beautifully. If you are
on
high-speed internet, any searches take approx 2 seconds
> * 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)?
>
depends on how long you have worked with IC in my opinion. I have
worked w/ IC for approx 1 yr. and have recently made a totally
unique store with quite a few features by just modifying Foundation
to death. in a word, *very* customizable. however, for me, only after
extensive work do I now feel comfortable totally transforming the
content
> * What are Interchange's weak spots?
>
seems to be liberal in its use of memory, but I do not have anything
to compare it to.
> 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?
>
Im not real sure, but I know that there are some brilliant guys that
seem very dedicated to keeping this product going.
> Thanks in advance for any input!
>
> Miles
>
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Sincerely,
Aaron Hazelton
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