OsCommerce is a simple and a straightforward e-commerce and online store-management software that can be installed on any website that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as a free platform. osCommerce is truly an open source program that is worked on continuously by thousands of developers. osCommerce’s most recent product is the Online Merchant v2, a comprehensive self-hosted online store platform that comes with both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend which can be quickly and effortlessly installed and modified via a web-based installation process.

Niles Partners is launching a product which will configure and publish osCommerce an eCommerce platform and CMS software which is embedded pre-configured tool with LAMP on Azure image that contains osCommerce, Apache, MySQL, Linux, PHP (LAMP).

There are a number of benefits that comes with the osCommerce platform. For one, it is a robust e-commerce and online store-management software program that can be integrated on any website or web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. On top of being a very flexible e-commerce solution, osCommerce is a free software under the GNU General Public License. That means you are not paying for anything, which means quite a lot if you are small startup that does not have the funds to invest in a pricey eCommerce setup.