Last week Caldera Systems extended its Linux family with the
introduction of an open source e-commerce product based on Java and
XML, which includes modules for order taking and fullfilment over
the Web, writes Pravin Jeyaraj.
The Linux-based OpenLinux eBuilder provides a series of modules
to build an e-commerce application.
It includes Evergreen Internet's ECential, a collection of
distributable Java-based e-commerce services and components which
customers can use to suit their requirements.
Services include merchandising, membership, personalisation,
tax, shipping, payment, order management and order processing.
Components include access to product databases and distribution and
delivery processes, capturing orders and assigning prices and
fees.
Also included is Websphere, IBM's open standards-based Java
server run-time environment, which supports 56-bit and 128-bit SSL
encryption.
Ransom Love, president of Caldera Systems, says more than 30% of
the Internet is currently running on Linux. "Therefore, it only
makes sense that businesses should be able to focus their resources
there without throwing out everything they already have."
IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky, adds, "Our studies show that Linux is
often being used to support infrastructure applications, in an
e-commerce market that is growing rapidly and will reach $2.5
trillion in 2004."
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