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Drupal Voices 108: Ryan Szrama from Ubercart to Drupal Commerce

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Ryan Szrama (aka rszrama) talks about his path from working on different Drupal e-commerce modules starting with co-developing the Ubercart module for Prima Supply, and then on to working on Drupal Commerce for Commerce Guys.

In January of this year, Szrama announced that he and Commerce Guys were creating a fork of Ubercart called Drupal Commerce. There were a number of trademark issues and other disagreements of the future direction of Ubercart, and so Szrama took his Ubercore initiative and started porting it to Drupal 7. Ubercart continues to be one of the leading e-commerce solutions for Drupal 6, and Drupal Commerce is building off a lot of the latest changes in Drupal 7 and has a lot of high-profile community support building around it, including one of the top Drupal 7 core contributors Damien Tournoud.

Ubercart will continue to be developed and supported by Prima into Drupal 7, and there will also be an upgrade path to migrate from Ubercart on Drupal 6 to Drupal Commerce on Drupal 7.

The French-based AF83 has joined forces with Commerce Guys to create a joint venture in creating Drupal e-commerce sites with special checkout monitoring services that Szrama talks a bit about.

The Commerce Guys were also involved with helping create a Drupal 7 driver for Microsoft's SQL Server, and they talked more about it in this DrupalCon session.

For more information on Szrama's transition from working on Ubercart to Drupal Commerce, then be sure to check out his DrupalCon presentation.

May 26, 2010 - 12:20pm
Drupal Voices
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Anonymous (not verified) on May 26, 2010 - 6:25pm

End of Drupal open source?

As a mere user of Drupal, I feel that open source spirit of Drupal is left behind by forks and rush to monetize. I believe it started with Aquia, Drupal Garden, Buzzr and now Drupal Commerce. Who can blame those who made Drupal happen to want a piece of action, but it is end of open source as we knew it.

greggles (not verified) on May 26, 2010 - 9:00pm

"as we knew it" when?

End of open source as we knew it?

One hosting company is missing from your list - Bryght was offering hosted Drupal (a la Gardens, Buzzr, etc.) back in 2005 - a full 5 years before the rest of the folks got into it.

It's also hard to believe your claim when the products you cite are run by the companies and people who are the major contributors to the completely Free and free core and contributed modules.

Drupal Theme Garden (not verified) on May 31, 2010 - 10:54am

??

I must say that I'm confused with this post.
Acquia offers their "distribution" under GPL. They are one of biggest contributors to drupa community.
And, yes, off course, they are offering payed services. They have to live from their salaries. Drupal Gardens have costs for hosting. Should they donate those resources?

Open source doesn't mean free as free bear, but free as free speech (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre#.22Free_as_in_beer.22_v...)