Let me start with this note: "Asking a Pharo Group what fits best for a good commercial solution is like asking an hungry person whether he would like to go for a feast.." Most certainly the answer should be a resounding yes from this group. You should. Now if you are asking if there are alternatives: They abound from all sorts of frameworks for websites, shopping carts, ecommerce stuff extending even to the Apache Ofbiz freeware to the paid, Oracle, MS wares. What is a best fit entirely depends on your inclination and willingness to plumb the depths. RubyOnRails, Grails .. umpteen others have frameworks, plugin modules galore to work with. Pharo - Seaside offers a very different proposition, ease of development, debugging and building incrementally. If you use Oracle, MS , IBM or likes, blame them when things go wrong and carry on. With Pharo you will have to pull up the sleeves, ask for help in this forum that I am sure will be forthcoming to some extent free and lots more if you can pay. Having said this: When I had my say on this 4 years back in one of the major Conglomerate in India, I proposed Apache OfBiz, which after basic prototyping the whole project was shelved due to lack of understanding in the group, of directions to take, I believe there is nothing like having a plan of action that mixes n matches Pharo with Apache Ofbiz that you can later throw away once you are fully built up in Pharo. For scalability and future Gemstone is a good fit, but that may take quite a while. Pharo will scale well if you can follow a clean architecture plan. The added glory is you can be the author / owner of the Pharo - Ofbiz bridge too.. ! Bit of XML RPC tricks should help and take help of Groovy on the Ofbiz side, you will feel Java malleable enough like it ought to be. On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:08 AM, sminni <sm@planage.com> wrote:

Hi,

One of my friends is moving forward on a very serious e-commerce portal (startup). Just as an example / illustration - something like say any of the typical largest online shopping stores

Initial estimates are typically average peak #no of records to search 100,000 500,000 #no of users online 1,000 5,000 #no of transactions per hour 10,000 50,000 #no of actual commerce gateway transaction per hour 1,000 5,000

Possibly the above details are sketchy but the immediate questions for him to firm up investment plans are: - Will a Pharo based platform be appropriate -- Technology ? -- Robustness & support ? - what will be the team man year effort (ballpark estimate) for development, testing, administration upto initial go-live ?

Could folks just throw any pointers to help in investment estimation and evaluation

Are any references of similar projects available in Pharo at this time ?

regards Sanjay

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