My friend Ernie Bennett who is battling cancer is having a benefit ride and classic car show here in Florida. There is also going to be live music and entertainment after the ride. This is for a great cause and to help his family out because he will not be able to work while he is in treatment for a year or more.  For more information, please visit http://www.erniebennett.com/

You will also see the site on my blog roll.

A few days ago I posted a discussion on LinkedIn about eCommerce platforms and software to see what some people think. I got a lot of ideas and opinions. Mostly people were talking about Magento, however there were a lot of others. Of course this was very informal so no one should ever take the advice of a bunch of strangers. However it does show one thing, that there are a ton of options out there when you decide to build a eCommerce store.

You can view the discussion here
http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=45691&discussionID=23782867&split_page=1

I have decided to move www.thebroshop.com from a OSCommerce system to Magento. This is mostly due to my frustrations with OSCommerce as a ecommerce system. Mostly due to SEO or Search Engine marketing but also because of the code base. Any time I need to make changes to the code, it is a pain. Plus I would like to measure the performance, features and codebase of Magento so that I can compare this with NetSuite. I use NetSuite with clients on a regular basis and because of this, and the size of the companies, I need more enterprise type ecommerce systems that I can offer opinions on.

My plan is to post the progress of the move and any problems, concerns that I have while making the change.

I've finally taken the time to move the blog to the GJS web servers.