Suomedia are proud to announce the impending public release of our new core ecommerce engine which we have dubbed "Suocommerce".

Suocommerce is a fork of the popular osCommerce Online Merchant and came about due to our own needs for a more up to date and powerful solution. We have been using and continuing development of this new platform since January 2008 and now wish to make our work available and a new open source (GPL) project. A number of our client websites are already powered by this solution.

Out of the box, Suocommerce will feature:

• Complete separation of business logic from presentation logic

• Plugin architecture

• W3C XHTML 1.0 CSS compliant output (table-less)

• Template structure

• Database abstraction layer for portability to all popular RDBMS (includes query caching)

• Improved OOP structure

• Built in CMS system for easily adding content groups, pages and sub-pages

• Reworked products attributes system including stock control/permutation and an easy to use Ajax powered administration

• SEO enhancements including dynamic meta generation and Google sitemap

• Much more!

While this is essentially a complete rewrite of the osCommerce platform, it retains a familiarity that existing osCommerce developers will appreciate. Existing osCommerce contributions are easily ported over to the new platform.

Suomedia will be opening a new website dedicated to the project, including online support forums, SVN server and bug tracker.