Re:Perhaps it's changed... (Score 2, Insightful)

Seems like you are all being a little hard on OsCommerce. The point is it is open-source software and totally free. You can set up an online store and have a customer frontend and an administration backend, unlimited products and categories, lots of useful tools such as invoice creating, easy backup of database and supports many currencies and languages. Many different payment gateways can be added to the site by downloading one of the many contributions some of the software developers who support OsCommerce have made available.

Yes it's easier to get a web developer to do all these things for you, but it will cost a whole load of money, which many business start-ups cannot afford.

Surely it is worth taking time to try to work it out?