What I've always liked about actinic is not the cart itself (which I've always hated) - Perl locks you into the cgi-bin and if you make mods to the cgi-scripts these break the next upgrade - very out of date in terms of ecommerce thinking - no reviews - no wishlist - two many stages in the checkout - upload takes for ever - not standards compliant because proprietary tags break validators.
No what I like is the fact that the order processing is a real program in the clients office making clients feel comfortable and secure, plus when mole-end pluggins are utilised I think its the most streamlined orderprocessing of any of the carts out there.
Therefore I suggest that a future major release combines Actinic Express front end using PHP and MySQL for the cart and possibly for adding products - but able to be hosted on the clients own server - with the Order processing back end offline in a real program I suspect this is also what Actinic are thinking from several comments they have made on the community and also offline when speaking to them.
Which brings me to my wishlist suggestion - can the front end be properly open source - meaning that it is developed by the developer community as well as Actinic developers - and utilises all the administrative command & quality control structures that open source communites use, also can both the back end and the front end provide proper APIs. Open source doesn't have to mean free - and the license would state that the code though available and free to be modified is still owned by Actinic.
Think People at Actinic would do well to read Wikinomics - How mass collaboration changes every thing by Don Tapscott
No what I like is the fact that the order processing is a real program in the clients office making clients feel comfortable and secure, plus when mole-end pluggins are utilised I think its the most streamlined orderprocessing of any of the carts out there.
Therefore I suggest that a future major release combines Actinic Express front end using PHP and MySQL for the cart and possibly for adding products - but able to be hosted on the clients own server - with the Order processing back end offline in a real program I suspect this is also what Actinic are thinking from several comments they have made on the community and also offline when speaking to them.
Which brings me to my wishlist suggestion - can the front end be properly open source - meaning that it is developed by the developer community as well as Actinic developers - and utilises all the administrative command & quality control structures that open source communites use, also can both the back end and the front end provide proper APIs. Open source doesn't have to mean free - and the license would state that the code though available and free to be modified is still owned by Actinic.
Think People at Actinic would do well to read Wikinomics - How mass collaboration changes every thing by Don Tapscott