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Yeah it can be, it really comes down to knowing the best place to source a developer from is. But what you are finding is one of the main reasons why we created Developer Connection - a once stop shop for all eCommerce development needs!

@@jonathanhussey only e-commerce developers? My project is different. Entertainment industry

@@jessyhill5708 There are future plans to expand the service outside just eCommerce, but for now it's eCommerce specific.

I actually talked about Shopware a little while back - but the short version is, it's not quite a flexible as Magento (but close), and I do like it as a framework. Right now it's looking like the future of Magento Open Source is actually quite safe with the plan being to ultimately hand it off to the Magento Association. So as long as Adobe don't change their mind, I think Open Source will be around for a good while yet. developerconnection.co.uk/blog/shopware-first-look

Hope you're right !!!

Good questions. Looking back at logged time for the downgrade, it sits at around 412 hours work, including all research, creating the downgrade process, testing multiple times in staging environments with equivalent dummy data to production, actually running the production downgrade, and then any follow up work when customer services started to use the downgraded system. Virtually all of the follow up work was related to the third party extensions replacing commerce functionality around returns and companies, with quite a bit of that just being differences in usage within admin, adding an extra bit of info here, moving this field there, that kind of thing, but nothing critical. On the day of actually downgrading production, there were many external systems involved as well so it wasn't just Magento, or just me involved, but I would say that including database backup before running against production in case of a need to roll back, the actual downgrade, and some initial testing afterwards it probably took something like 3 - 4 hours just for the Magento side with maybe 1 - 1.5 hours of that running the SQL scripts. Since then, yes Open Source has been upgraded including upgrades with database changes, and also things like applying security patches - no issues found (and none anticipated). A large chunk of the time creating the downgrade process was analysing DB changes between Commerce and Open Source, and building SQL to convert the DB fully to Open Source. A big requirement of the client was that post downgrade the install, in terms of both code and database structure and content, was identical to Open Source so Adobe would have no basis to say the install still needed a Commerce license if they did chose to investigate. During testing, I ran the downgrade SQL many time and also closely inspected the DB afterwards comparing to the clean Open Source DB, and it was identical. Bear in mind that if you also want to downgrade, you will need to spend some good time testing and likely customising the process yourself to make sure you are happy before running it against any production systems.

You can turn on subtiutles if you'd like to, even though they are auto generated by CZcams, they are pretty accurate.

Adobe is certainly introducing sweeping changes - I guess we'll see what the future actually brings but I am concerned for the future of Commerce. Open Source is looking brighter though!

Thanks Saurav, we are always on the lookout for more eCommerce frameworks to add support for on Developer Connection, so I'll definitely check this one out, thanks! If we can add support them I'm sure a review will follow.

@@developerconnection Thanks for your reply

Toitally agree Davide, and many of your points I make in my video. If the day does come when Magento Open Source is no more it will be a terrible shame, but similarly to you, I hope that Adobe will allow the community to take ownership of Open Source edition if there plan is to retire the product.