Highlights From Mage::Camp

Big thanks to OnTap and Varien for a great show at Mage::Camp, just wanted to give readers an insight regarding some of the key things that were discussed with regards to the development of Magento in the coming year.

Magento API

A key area of interest for developers is that Roy Rubin made clear Varien’s commitment to expanding the scope of the Mage API to encompass all the functionality available through Magento Admin (no timeframe on that I’m afraid).

Magento Enterprise Edition

A number of questions were asked in relation to Magento Enterprise pricing. The main thing that I took away was basically a warning for EU developers - the pricing for us is a straight swap of the currency rather than based on the dollar price the current conversion rate, so that’s a starting at €8,900 per annum price.

However, there was some good news for customers hoping to use multiple servers for redundancy and load balancing, the ‘per instance’ licensing fee was “negotiable”. Meaning you’ll probably only have to pay for one license.

Magento Connect

Magento Connect 2.0 is coming, a major overhaul is already in the pipeline and many of the features, I believe, will only lead to a huge surge in commercial extensions and greater levels of trust between developers and end users. More on the proposed changes in a future post.