Best eCommerce Platform
weaksauce: Satchmo is coming along well in the Django/Python world. They are currently forking the payment module out of the main program. One of the big benefits of their system is the highly customizable nature of the design and the nature of django's frameworks. Check it out here: www.satchmoproject.com  I cannot attest to the ruby world but I hear great things about active merchant coupled with rails.I have used magento and did not like my experience in it at all. The php seemed clunky and one or two steps away from a vulnerability. Also the templates are all over the place and to make a change to one part of a page required changes in multiple files in a lot of cases. That and the magento is about slow as molasses.