Drupal 7 is just around the corner. Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert announced an estimated mid-October release for the next major version of Drupal in his keynote address at DrupalCon Copenhagen.
Drupal already powers many e-commerce websites – currently over 24,000 and counting. Its position as an e-commerce platform will be further strengthened by the release of Drupal 7 and Drupal Commerce, a complete enterprise e-commerce solution for Drupal.
Drupal Commerce is a completely new module package, providing all the systems necessary to build any kind of store on Drupal. It is being developed specifically for Drupal 7 by a group of six software companies, independent developers and lead by Commerce Guys, the leading Drupal e-commerce company.
Commerce Guys is happy to announce the first alpha release of Drupal Commerce at DrupalCon Copenhagen. All the major core systems are in place and will be fleshed out during the project’s alpha life-cycle. Our goal is to deploy Drupal Commerce on the same timeline as Drupal 7 itself.
Key improvements of Drupal Commerce over existing Drupal e-commerce solutions include: