Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce application(s)?

[Dawson]

A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
Joomla...

The question is:

Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
and security you would expect to come with it?

Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.

Thank you for your time in advance.

[Rik Wasmus]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:43:50 +0200, Dawson <co*******@gmail.comwrote:

A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
Joomla...

The question is:

Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
and security you would expect to come with it?

Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.

Ask in a Joomla group, allthough they might be biased...

For 'a large critical enterprise e-commerce application', I would never
take a package like it though, I'd write my own, knowing all ins and outs
and above all streamlining it. It's a heavy investment, but usually one
that pays off.
--
Rik Wasmus

[Dawson]

On 3 Sep, 21:02, "Rik Wasmus" <[e-mail]:

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:43:50 +0200, Dawson <[e-mail]:

A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
Joomla...

The question is:

Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
and security you would expect to come with it?

Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.

Ask in a Joomla group, allthough they might be biased...

For 'a large critical enterprise e-commerce application', I would never
take a package like it though, I'd write my own, knowing all ins and outs
and above all streamlining it. It's a heavy investment, but usually one
that pays off.
--
Rik Wasmus

Thank you for your response, I only found one joomla group and it's
for developer discussion, I don't really want to post this there,
after reading the threads.

I found your reply useful and it's of the same opinion as mine,
however, I'm fighting against an agency who disagree, so, I need to
find sources or a case study to prove why Joomla is not up to the job
of an enterprise application.

[Sanders Kaufman]

Dawson wrote:

I found your reply useful and it's of the same opinion as mine,
however, I'm fighting against an agency who disagree, so, I need to
find sources or a case study to prove why Joomla is not up to the job
of an enterprise application.

Evangelists. Yuck. They decide the wrong way - from the goal to
supporting facts, instead of t'other way 'round.

It sounds like they've already decided on Joomla, and are now actually
looking for support for their predetermined goal.

For my two-cents worth, here's a buck.

It sounds like you might consider turning it around and asking the
"agency" that pronounced Joomla to be an "enterprise application" to
back up that claim. (Good luck with that.)

Bear in mind, that it's a framework for building applications, and not
an application unto itself. Whether you go with Joomla or build an
in-house solution, the enterprise will still need to keep a development
staff on hand - and they will be busy.

Bearing that in mind, consider further that that staff will all have to
be Joomla specialists - a very time consuming requirement since Joomla
is a very BUSY Open Source project and *constantly* changing, often in
very dramatic ways. The current version is called 1.5, but is really
just one of a dozen or so releases put out in a very short time - some
buggier than others.

Finally, it's worth re-emphasizing that even though Joomla markets their
product as a being usable in creating "complex corporate applications",
it is not an EA unto itself

What they're doing there is what I call "stealing legitimacy" from a
foundation component - strictly for marketing purposes. In fact, it is
PHP itself that makes EAP development so doable - and not Joomla.

[shimmyshack]

On Sep 3, 11:09 pm, Sanders Kaufman <[e-mail]:

Dawson wrote:

I found your reply useful and it's of the same opinion as mine,
however, I'm fighting against an agency who disagree, so, I need to
find sources or a case study to prove why Joomla is not up to the job
of an enterprise application.

Evangelists. Yuck. They decide the wrong way - from the goal to
supporting facts, instead of t'other way 'round.

It sounds like they've already decided on Joomla, and are now actually
looking for support for their predetermined goal.

For my two-cents worth, here's a buck.

It sounds like you might consider turning it around and asking the
"agency" that pronounced Joomla to be an "enterprise application" to
back up that claim. (Good luck with that.)

Bear in mind, that it's a framework for building applications, and not
an application unto itself. Whether you go with Joomla or build an
in-house solution, the enterprise will still need to keep a development
staff on hand - and they will be busy.

Bearing that in mind, consider further that that staff will all have to
be Joomla specialists - a very time consuming requirement since Joomla
is a very BUSY Open Source project and *constantly* changing, often in
very dramatic ways. The current version is called 1.5, but is really
just one of a dozen or so releases put out in a very short time - some
buggier than others.

Finally, it's worth re-emphasizing that even though Joomla markets their
product as a being usable in creating "complex corporate applications",
it is not an EA unto itself

What they're doing there is what I call "stealing legitimacy" from a
foundation component - strictly for marketing purposes. In fact, it is
PHP itself that makes EAP development so doable - and not Joomla.

one of the very first php servers that I had to clean up following a
worm was acked through joomla.
nice software to be sure, but for enterprise you are talking proper
security, code auditing, stability, fast patch time, business support,
one of the things enterprise IT guys fear most is a constantly
changing code base, and they mistakenly think open source means wide
open to busy fingers meddling with it. Joomla would be very hard to
force into shape, and you would be left with a code of files that
would quickly be outdated and unpatchable from the Joomla source
unless you used SVN/CVS to update parts of the codebase left after you
had modified it for your use.
I cant understand anyone suggesting that a piece of software is
enterprise level... what does it mean... surely enterprise is much
more than the software, its whether it is scalable whether it
integrates into the existing business, do you already have php
servers, or in house php experts, will it run on apache, do you all
understand how to secure apache, or will that have to be outsourced.
IMHO agencies tend to steer biz towards what the agency can support
and away from what the biz has skills to support for obvious reasons.

[larry]

On Sep 3, 12:43 pm, Dawson <[e-mail]:

A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
Joomla...

The question is:

Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
and security you would expect to come with it?

Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.

It's been out a while so it's probably pretty well debugged. But I
found it only works a certain way (as another poster mentioned) and I
didn't think it fit in to what I wanted.

Since Joomla is free why don't you set up a beige box with it and play
around, see what it does and if you guys like it. That's what I did.

It mainly depends on if you know what you want or you don't. If you
don't Joomla is just about as good as any other, if you do then you
may have certain formats, standards or operations you will want to
assure Joomla or whatever CMS can handle before adopting.

[Lammi]

On 3 Sep., 21:43, Dawson <[e-mail]:

A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
Joomla...

The question is:

Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
and security you would expect to come with it?

Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.

Thank you for your time in advance.

no, it isn't. i've played around with joomla because we were looking
for a enterprise, easy to use, multilanguage and multisite cms. my
company thought about typo3, but the people who'll use the cms aren't
able to handle typo3.

the only point joomla matches is "easy to use".

the reason why we kicked it out: you need a hack to make it multisite-
ready. that's absurd, i don't wanna install an extra-cms for every
single domain (and we've a lot of domains!) and i don't wanna use not-
supported, inofficial hacks in my companys cms. there is a huge list
of vulnerabilities in joomla (most of them in addons, not in joomla-
core).

if you're able to script jsp, take a look at opencms. if you've time
and you're cold blooded, get typo3 (it's an awful monster...). if
you're working on a really large ecommerce-system, take a deeper look
on some commercial products, f. e. livelink.

[Dawson]

On 4 Sep, 07:30, Lammi <[e-mail]:

On 3 Sep., 21:43, Dawson <[e-mail]:

A client of ours with a large ecommerce shop is looking at moving to
Joomla...

The question is:

Is Joomla ready for large critical enterprise e-commerce
application(s), with white-labelling and all the features, stability
and security you would expect to come with it?

Can you point me to a case-study/url/source(s) for your opinion.

Thank you for your time in advance.

no, it isn't. i've played around with joomla because we were looking
for a enterprise, easy to use, multilanguage and multisite cms. my
company thought about typo3, but the people who'll use the cms aren't
able to handle typo3.

the only point joomla matches is "easy to use".

the reason why we kicked it out: you need a hack to make it multisite-
ready. that's absurd, i don't wanna install an extra-cms for every
single domain (and we've a lot of domains!) and i don't wanna use not-
supported, inofficial hacks in my companys cms. there is a huge list
of vulnerabilities in joomla (most of them in addons, not in joomla-
core).

if you're able to script jsp, take a look at opencms. if you've time
and you're cold blooded, get typo3 (it's an awful monster...). if
you're working on a really large ecommerce-system, take a deeper look
on some commercial products, f. e. livelink.

Thank you everyone, I'm going to try and formulate something this
morning from all you comments. I really appreciate you taking the time
to respond, some great stuff here.