2009 Brings Explosion of Free, Cheap E-commerce Programs

Small business owners, rejoice! Last year while the Big Three — osCommerce, Zen Cart, & CRE Loaded — open source commerce teams made mega-blunders or didn't do anything noteworthy, dozens of smaller teams were hard at work taking advantage. The difference between open source and proprietary became almost indistinguishable except to developers, with some open source programs now selling for more money than proprietary programs.

We recap the year for the biggies and review a dozen newer, up-and-coming e-commerce programs.

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