Microsoft Commerce Server

anyone use this?

[shdsofblu]

I'm investigating the use of Microsoft Commerce Server product for our e-Commerce website. Has anyone implemented? Any thoughts on it? Pros / Cons

Thanks much!

[Easy_Coder]

I'm using an older flavor; have been since 1998. The pipeline architecture is really nice and managed by MTS which I'm using for Order Processing into an ERP. This software has been very reliable for me.

One thing that takes some getting used to and this possibly may have changed with the newer versions is the Basket mechanism. The Basket gets marshaled into the database as a binary object. It's a Dictionary Object that is essentially a collection of Dictionaries. So you've always got to unwind the dictionary with programming code other then tsql to see the Basket Contents. The upside of this approach is that you can store pretty much whatever you want in the Basket.

[edited by: Easy_Coder at 10:37 am (utc) on Mar. 27, 2007]