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Interchange is a free and open source
e-commerce web application server and platform
written in Perl. Its primary use
is building customized e-commerce and catalog
solutions.
It is a descendant of Vend, an e-commerce system originally
developed by Andrew Wilcox in early 1995. Mike Heins took the first
publicly-released version, Vend 0.2, and added searching and DBM
catalog storage to create MiniVend. Mike released MiniVend 0.2m7 on
December 28, 1995. In 2000, ecommerce startup Akopia acquired Mike's consultancy, Internet
Robotics, hired him, and merged its product, Tallyman, with
MiniVend, to create Interchange. (Tallyman was a GPL'd web
framework written in Perl and Embperl, backed by Oracle or
PostgreSQL.)
In 2001, Akopia was acquired by Red Hat. Within a few years, Red Hat had
tightened its focus on Enterprise Linux and ended its involvement with Interchange,
which is now maintained by its community of developers, including
ex-Akopia employees, most of whom still make a living doing
Interchange development.
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