What can an e-commerce platform teach us about community? Turns out, quite a bit. Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform that was recently acquired by Adobe that has both a free "community" ...

I didn’t love Dries Buytaert’s article earlier this month (“How takers hurt makers in open source”), as I feel it sets up a misleading war between the “makers” and “takers” of open source. Every ...

Many developers have dedicated time and resources into developing Magento extensions to improve upon the platform’s SEO performance, but they will cost you. Screenshot from Magento Connect You can see ...

Last year, eBay acquired Magento, developer of an open-source e-commerce platform for around $180 million. Magento became part of X.commerce, a combined open platform business from eBay and PayPal. A ...