Over the past few weeks I have successfully migrated the Merchandise Service eStore off of a legacy system, WebServer 4D. WS4D was a great product. However, like so many "great products", it was from a one-man-shop. Unfortunately, he ceased work on the product about five years ago for unknown reasons. We were running five year old software on an eight year old machine on MacOS 9. It was only a matter of time until something gave out!
Out of the mailing list of WS4D users came the recommendation for X-Cart (
www.x-cart.com ). After reviewing several products, and having recommendations for this, I went with it. X-Cart is php-based and uses MySQL -- both already in place on my server. So I took the plunge, spent several months on configuration and product migration, and went live two weeks ago. So far, so good. It's much faster. The features are greater. The interface to users is better. Score one for X-Cart!
Now I just have to migrate my databases to MySQL and I will be done with the old box!