What is Magento?

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Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is magento.

[charlottegracie]

Magento is an ecommerce platform built on open source technology which provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content and functionality of their online store. Magento offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools.

[OPI]

It is an open source platform for design Ecommerce websites. It is a little difficult instead of other CMS. And it costly too but it is the best solution to develop the large ecommerce websites. There are so many features availble in Magento. Technical Knowledge require for Magento website development. But its a best solution for ecommerce websites.

[friendhrm]

Magento employs the the PHP programming language, MySQL-MariaDB relational database management system, and elements of the Zend Framework. It applies the conventions of OOP(Object-Oriented Programming) and model-view-controller architecture.

Magento is the provider of 2 unique platforms: Magento Community Edition and Magento Enterprise Edition. Primarily, there were also two former platforms: Magento Professional Edition and Magento Go.

[swlocums]

Magento is a leading enterprise-class eCommerce platform, empowering over 200,000 online retailers to date and chosen by 1 of every 4 online businesses.

[David910]

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP. The software was originally developed by Varien Inc., a US private company headquartered in Culver City, California, with assistance from volunteers.

[Liyans_Tech]

Open source Platform for e-commerce website.