Magento was only released last March, but already has been downloaded over 525,000 times. In that short time, Magento has become the preferred choice for ecommerce development for many web designers working with Open Source solutions. Why are so many flocking to Magento, and is the hype really justified by the functionality?

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"Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone...

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rockyou.com is one of the best, new web 2.0 sites for photo sharing, online videos, and social networking. The site has free image hosting with unique editing facilities, fun note and cork board widgets, free movie posters, and MySpace themes. The design on the site is very innovative and similar in some ways to IMVU.