Popular Open Source Softwares 1. WordPress WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which runs on a web hosting service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 18.9 per cent of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. WordPress is currently the most popular blogging system being used on the Web, powering over 202 million websites worldwide. Besides blogs, WordPress is also being used for online shops based on its e-commerce themes, online magazine using its magazine theme, portfolios using its WordPress portfolio themes, Galleries on its WordPress gallary themes for photographers and designers. 2. Magento Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien (now Magento Inc) with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by Magento Inc. Magento was built using the Zend Framework. It uses the entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data. The software is currently used by around 30,000 merchants around the world including biggies like Samsung and Nespresso. It is indeed one of the world’s fastest growing e-commerce platform. The Community Edition of Magento is offered for free under the Open Software License. Although its Enterprise Edition requires you to pay and offers features like multi-store capability, store credits and gift cards. stay turned
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