News about the Magento, a primary open-source commerce platform, has cracked around 500,500 downloads, not to mention its approx 42,000 community members that have translated the project into various languages. That saw money can't buy, or at least not cheaply.
It has been said that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," and the real story behind Magento's success is that it's breeding copycats. Several proprietary competitors, like Oxid eShop, are throwing 
in the towel and open sourcing their code, too.
in the towel and open sourcing their code, too.
The Magento project, which is founded by Varien in 2001, hasn't been around long time, but it's already troublemaking in the e-commerce market.
Earlier this year we talked up Magento as a company and project to watch. We were speculating at that time, but today its success seems relatively sure. It's now a question of "how big?" for Magento, not "will it take off ?"
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