By Wombats

As Ubercart marches toward a beta release, I'm pleased to see more and more stores popping up in the live sites directory. I was just as happy to see a post in my Google Alerts from another development shop finding Drupal + Ubercart to be a good solution for e-commerce development. The guys at Sundays Energy have been doing this openly for a while, and I know several other developers who have pumped out multiple incredible sites (izi are you out there? ). The post that just came up today, though, was different. It not only praised our beloved CMS for having a good e-commerce module package in Ubercart, but it also praised Drupal over against the likes of Joomla/Wordpress (and their e-commerce extensions) and other dedicated e-commerce solutions like osCommerce and ZenCart.

The fellow who posted the article seems to be a pretty well-rounded developer who probably has much more experience than me in general and with other e-commerce packages. He likes the combination of Drupal + Ubercart for simplicity, flexibility, and (for lack of a better word) themability. Don't we all? My hope for Ubercart is that it continues to build a name for Drupal as the open source CMS solution for e-commerce... We're working hard to make it easier for folks to use and more applicable for a variety of uses. I'm happy to be working on such a fun project, and even happier knowing it's building a good reputation for Drupal in another niche market of web development. What's good for Ubercart is good for Drupal and vice versa.

I found this article through a Google Alert on "Ubercart" as a Digg. You should Digg it, too!


On a somewhat related note, we had a new user post the following quote in our forums:
"Ubercart rocks. I was tooling with ecommerce feeling suicidal until I found this."

There you have it... Ubercart saves lives.