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Brief Introduction | Magento is a feature-rich, flexible and robust Open-source Ecommerce platform that was launched in 2008. Currently there are 260,000+ websited based on Magento & it has the highest market share of close to 29% in the Ecommerce world | Wordpress/WooCommerce is an Open-source platform which was originally for blogging and has evolved into an Ecommerce platform. It is the second-most widely used Ecommerce platform in the world commanding a market share of about 26%. | BigCommerce was launched in 2009 & is privately held by BigCommerce Inc. It is a SaaS based platform. It controls close to 1% market share. | Shopify is a SaaS based Ecommerce platform. It controls a market share of about 11% & is one of the most rapidly growing Ecommerce platforms. |
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Ideal for | SMB's and Large enterprises if you have a growing Ecommerce business & have a a good development partner to help you with your website needs | SMB's and startups who are planning to launch their website on low budget. | Suited as an all-in-one store platform if you want all the functionality in it without any 3rd party depenedency & you don't have programming knowledge | If you are looking for an all-in-one store platform with more flexibility and apps & don't mind some complexity, Shopify is the platform for you. |