ByronM - 10:59 pm on Apr 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Bryon the fact that you think that the amount of products somehow would increase/decrease the work load for a custom building a shopping cart shows how very little of an understanding you have of how to code something like this.

Bold statement to make there.

I guess my idea of a shopping cart is much more than yours. Sure, a simple checkout script and catalog could be developed in 20 hours but there is no way you could write something in 20 hours to manage 75k skus on products that have 20-50 parametric values that could be searched, sorted, indexed and queried as well as implementing price matrices, discounts, coupons, order management, order entry, fraud detection, catalog managment, price management, data import, data export, feed generation, shipping, stock/inventory management and everything else that etailers use & need.

This thread is about large ecommerce systems correct?