Open source and
unrivaled flexibility are the key Magento features for which it is known. It was originally developed in California, with assistance from volunteers and contributors. The Magento platform was a kind of
promising multi-purposing CMS until it was bought by eBay. The latter was highly
focused on eCommerce and tailored Magento to this domain.
Acquired by Adobe in 2018, Magento remains Open source.Today it provides two platforms:
Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce. The latter is available in the on-premises version or as a
PaaS. It's a fully-featured solution with enhanced options, including
optimized cloud architecture, and
hosting AI-powered analytics and merchandising.
Magento Open Source is a freely used e-commerce platform that
allows developers to extend its functionality, introducing new features and upgraded ones, fixing bugs, enhancing test coverage, and suggesting points for optimization. Such an
ever-evolving 'open-minded' ecosystem.
It delivers all the
basic eCommerce capabilities for creating an online store from the scratch
(but requires some
programming knowledge to be well set up).
Magento is mostly tailored to medium-sized and large businesses because of its advanced
customizability and scalability.