The first Batavi.org projects - an open source trade-oriented webshop - are live. One of the first Batavi projects is Paper Palace - a trader in paper-based office supplies. In computer hardware trade, the first Batavi shops are Network Hardware Trading and Tridis. Batavi is Latin for Bataves, the mythical people that lived in Roman times in Germany and The Netherlands, helped to protect the Northern Borders of the Roman Empire, and were inspirational for the the Dutch Republic in the 16th and 17th Century, the Golden Age of The Netherlands.
Batavi is developed by Dutch-based ICEshop.biz, which has 10 years experience in developing webshops for traders, including XML-EDI connectivity towards their suppliers like Ingram Micro and Tech Data. The Batavi project used the unfinished object oriented code of osCommerce 3.0 as a starting point. But, brought the platform to a complete new level by
- adding supply chain management functionalities
- developing a very flexible object-oriented design shell
- ICEcat integration
- finalizing the many unfinished ideas (osCommerce 3.0 is just developed by one man. ICEshop hired 10s of developers to finalize the shop code).
Although the first projects are live, Bert van Gerwen, director of ICEshop, says that it will take up to 6 weeks before a complete and stable download version of Batavi will be available on Batavi.org. I am very impatient to see this open source project going live, also because of the seamless ICEcat integration, but I appreciate the architectural perfectionism leading to the decision to await the first complete version which includes the object-oriented design shell ("white label version").
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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