Magento Commerce’s inaugural preview version was announced on Friday by Roy Rubin at Varien. Varien is a web development company with a special interest in creating rich, ecommerce websites and innovative user interfaces. For the past several months they have been boasting about an ecommerce platform they’ve been writing. According to www.magentocommerce.com, Magento is written in PHP on top of the Zend Framework, making it one of the first real applications to utilize this framework to its full extent.
I have been looking forward to salivating over this release for quite some time, and to be quite honest, I am having a difficult time even finishing this article because I am so eager to start playing around with it. Please feel free to check it out yourself. The official release was made on the following page:
Announcing Magento Preview 0.6 and Launch of the Community Site
Also, just in case there was something unclear about the words “preview release”, this version should not be used in any kind of production website. It is a preview and has only been released so that the community may get acquainted with how it works and begin developing tutorials, plugins, articles (such as this one), and to generally create a buzz about the software.
I’ll keep you posted with updates and tutorials as they are made available.