Tina Gasperson of NewsForge, explains that Online shopping carts are now available in an Open Source flavor. It’s true, thanks to software applications like osCommerce, you can now offer your site’s visitors access to a shopping cart and take solace in knowing that you are supporting an Open Source product at the same time.

Winfield and his staff do some coding, but 10e20 is more of a design company. They never wanted to build apps from scratch, so Winfield used to employ proprietary software options for his clients, who are mostly small to medium-sized businesses running ecommerce sites. He found himself running into problems, however, when the clients needed custom tweaks to the shopping cart software.