Even the Magento Inc (earlier Varien) might have not visualized so much popularity as an eCommerce solution when it was first launched by the organization on March 31, 2008
In the present day, owning an ecommerce website is a necessity. Be it a big corporate organization, or a humble small scale business looking for cost cuttings etc
Like WordPress and Drupal, Joomla is also one of the most preferred open source content management systems. It comes with thousands of free modules and plugins
Magento is powerful open source ecommerce publishing platform. The reason for its popularity lies in the fact that other than being an open source platform