Open Source Solutions

The popularity of open source software as free computer software has greatly increased over the past few years. What open source software basically offers to users is the benefit of being able to redistribute copies, modify and study, and even run the program for any purpose imaginable; all to be done without the user even having to pay the previous developers royalties. Linux is such an example of open source software and is most possibly the program with the highest popularity ranking of all the free software available over the Internet.

The moment you decide to run an online store selling your favorite stuff, you are immediately thrown with dozens of questions and obstacles. For starters, you’ll need to decide between clean inventory/excess stock, then comes the resource for products. Ultimately, when it comes to open an e-commerce site, the biggest decision is – Which platform should I use?

Supported Applications

• OsCommerce (PHP/MySQL)

  OsCommerce Online Merchant is an open source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

• Zen Cart (PHP/MySQL)

  Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

• Magento Commerce (PHP/MySQL)

  Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs.

• Joomla

  VirtueMart (PHP/MySQL)
  The complete e-Commerce shopping cart solution for Joomla! – used by thousands of store owners. It can be run in Store- and Catalog-Mode. With its powerful Administration Tool you can handle an unlimited Number of Categories, Products, Orders, Discounts, Shopper Groups and Customers. VirtueMart works for both Joomla and Mambo.
  

• X-cart (PHP/MySQL)
  X-Cart shopping cart software is based on PHP Smarty templates, this makes it very flexible and easy to modify. The data is stored in MySQL database. X-Cart is a turnkey package. Installation is handled by web-based step-by-step wizard to make the system running immediately after receiving it. X-Cart is search engine friendly. A merchant can specify meta tags and define custom URLs for product and category pages that results in higher search engine rankings.

• WordPress
  WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
  

• Drupal
  We possess the expertise required to customize Drupal templates. As per the requirements of the clients we offer to customize the Drupal templates. The templates are customized as per the Drupal specifications.

• Cake php
  Today people live fast life. Everyone wants to get job done instantly. Considering this mentality developers at Mad Infocom learn an open source that mimics the good aspects of Ruby and Rails terms as CakePHP. CakePHP breaks the monotony during development and offers tools and logics specific to the application and subsequently saves a lot up repetition in coding thus coder need not to reinvent same coding in new project.

• DotNetNuke
  DotNetNuke is an open source web application framework for developing interactive enterprise web applications, and intranet and extranet sites. It is widely used for its powerful features, in-built tools, and functionalities that are easy-to-manage and customize. DotNetNuke is based on Microsoft ASP.NET platform and can be customized with the use of modules and skins. DotNetNuke software is available for free and licensed under BSD agreement.