Magento

Magento is an open source ecommerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008 developed using the Zend Framework. It is one of the best and most widely used ecommerce framework in use today. Magento Mobile version was released in 2010 using which mobile storefronts can be set up.

Serenus has been actively providing Magento based solution to the clients and has done several customization over the basic community edition such as custom AJAX based search filters, custom design creator, reward, referral and loyalty points and lots more.

Trivia

• Varien, the company owning Magento, formerly worked with osCommerce. They originally planned to fork osCommerce but later decided to rewrite it as Magento.
• As of June 6, 2011 Ebay has 100% ownership of Magento.
• The first stable release of magento was on March 31, 2008.
• The mobile version was launched on May 30, 2010