On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> Perl has credit card modules i beleive, however ive never used them
> and dont know just how well they would werk here in Aus.
Business::CreditCard implements the classis credit card
checksum algorithm. That's it! (they promise to offer C/Card
m,erchant connection facilities in the future ;-)
> I _doubt_ there is anything like lotus that is GPL, generally i think
> the idea is to build little generic modules and glue them together as
> you want. Like shell commands sorta.
It ain't rocket science to roll your own :)
Lotus would not be approrpiate for an e-commerce solution IMHO.
Neither would Domino.
> Monolithic apps are good in some ways. But i prefer apps with a single
> task that can work well with others. (my 2c)
Hmmm ... methinks the "e-commerce" buzzword is more hype
than reality. e-commerce is, as you say, really just gluing
pieces of existing technology together, i.e.
(*) online credit card merchant facility
(*) a web server or three
(*) a database
(*) a persistence mechanism ("sessions") for shopping carts
(*) a good MIS in the backend to control and track it all
(*) some scripts to glue it all together
Nothing new there. And all doiable "free", in both senses
of the word.
The only thing it costs is your time.
Now, a GNU e-commerce solution ... hmmm. Roll your own
and make it opensource ;-)
Cheers
Rick W
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