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Fortune3 shopping cart software for E-Commerce - Stand-alone
By: Mark Newmark, Thu Mar 23rd, 2006
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Many professional web developers including myself use the Fortune3 shopping cart
software to create online stores for our clients. But you
can only use this shopping cart program if you host with them.
Although Fortune3 software popularity at Download.com, Zdn
et, and Tucows.com<
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reality; prices of broadband and web servers have dropped
dramatically, so we must push for independence to keep
competitive.
We have been asking Fortune3 for a stand-alone version that can
run in any web server. We are constantly bringing to their
attention the inconvenience of the hosting dependency and the
recurrent monthly fees. Many of our clients want to host in
their own servers, building a growing concern among us.
Fortune3 says that it will not be easy to release a stand-alone
version that will provide all the functionality of their hosted
shopping cart, as the stand-alone version would be a HTML code
generator instead of a database-driven Ecommerce engine. In
other words, they don't want to sell their shopping cart
engine.
We must wait and see. Fortune3 never really announces their
upcoming releases, but they listen. They are constantly
releasing new versions of their software, so I wouldn't be
surprised one of these days we'll have it.
About the author:
Mark is the development director of CommerceTree, an e-commerce
development firm based in south Florida. Mark has a degree in
computer sciences from FIU and 8 years of expertise in
developing e-commerce sites for small and medium size
companies.
