Tr: Softcart from Mercantec

["akantor" <akantor@club-internet.fr>]

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De : Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>
À : Minivend-Users (E-mail) <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Date : mercredi 1 septembre 1999 03:00
Objet : Re: Softcart from Mercantec


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>On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Russ wrote:
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>> Hello List,
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>> Has anyone used a recent version of SoftCart from Mercantec?
Experiences?
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>The previous person to warm the chair I am in now used and deployed it.  I
>went through a week or so of evaluation and that is why I now use
>MiniVend.  I needed to do things that just were not going to be possible
>with SoftCart.
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>If you have a store that matches their generic templates, it is probably
>much faster to set up a SoftCart store.  However, as your store grows and
>changes and you add special features, at some point you will have a harder
>and harder time with SoftCart.  MiniVend starts out somewhat difficult,
>but it never prevents you from doing something.  At the very worst, you
>would have to change some MV code or write the whole page in Perl.  There
>are lots of precompiled executables in SoftCart.  Unless you are a wizard
>with a disassembler and feel like patching binaries, there are certain
>limits in functionality that you will just not be able to pass.
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>One of the things that turned into a real annoyance with SoftCart was
>the ability to brand the catalog by the reseller that had linked to us.
>We do a fair number of things in the background based on that reseller ID.
>My predecessor tried for months to get it to work with SoftCart and was
>not totally successful.  It only took me about two months to learn MV well
>enough that I had nearly the whole site working with all the reseller
>branding and full SQL database backend etc.
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>E-Commerce is _not_ easy and anyone that tells you that you can create
>catalogs trivially and be online instantly is definitely selling you
>something.  Any system that is very easy to use to make a demo is probably
>limited to just that: making demos.
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>The beauty and challenge of the web is that how we interact with others is
>only limited by our intelligence, skill and most of all, IMAGINATION.
>Any system that sets up fixed templates removes some of your freedom.
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>Maybe SoftCart is right for you, but it certainly wasn't for us.  In a
>previous life as a professional e-business consultant for a large (very
>large) firm, I _never_ used pre-canned systems like this.  Of course, we
>did often start will large application servers, but those are really just
>giant libraries and flexible environments.
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>Best,
>Kyle (KH)
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