The explosion of popularity of the World Wide Web has enabled small businesses to reach out and distribute their products worldwide whereas before they could only distribute locally.
In addition to enabling existing businesses to expand their markets exponentially, countless of online retail distributors have sprung up and successfully taken advantage of an almost limitless customer base. One thing that all of these online stores have in common is that in order to effectively sell to their online customers, they must be able to showcase their products; all of them require e-commerce and online store management software.
OsCommerce is a popular e-commerce software application that has one major advantage over almost every other commercial software application available: its completely free.
Oscommerce is what is known as open-source software which means that it has been developed solely by individuals and organizations that volunteer their time and services in order to develop comprehensive alternatives to commercial software applications. OsCommerce is distributed under the GNU Public License, which ensures that the software remains free even if it is...