One of my side interests is eCommerce, primarily for building stores, and even more so from the programming side… I’m not really sure why, but it is an area that has always intrigued me… And recently, lucky enough to have the chance to “play” with it while working on some side projects. We were looking at osCommerce for a while, but eventually decided to focus on Magento. Both freeware, php-based platforms, but in the end, Magento had fewer warts.