Commerce Server Blog

Yesterday Microsoft has released his new commerce server version CTP to the public and you can download it from Microsoft website. Here is the nice quotation from Microsoft on their product release

“We invite you to install this pre-release of the next version of Commerce Server 2009 “R2” into a non-production environment to learn how Commerce Server 2009 “R2” provides an improved business management experience, enhanced cross-channel enablement with 3-tier development and deployment support, and a more streamlined deployment experience.”

The August CTP release includes the following new features:
• Multi-tier development support
• Business Administration Ribbon
• Integrated template pack
• Configuration wizard

Couple of observations.

• One of the nice feature I am looking in commerce server for past few years is Multi-site development – where we can separate commerce server from application server. Once I install this version, I want to see how robust is this feature?
• This CTP works on 64 bit computers. Not sure, if I can able to build my VPC soon. Hopefully Microsoft gives a VPC (with their 90 days time bomb embedded in it) copy to me .
• No upgrade path from CS2007 or CS2009 to CS2009 R2 – you need to uninstall ALL previous versions of Commerce Server before you can install Commerce Server 2009 "R2" August 2009 CTP. Hopefully this will not repeat it in RTM.

I will blog my findings soon.

Note: CTPs are for evaluation purposes only and are intended only for short-term use in a test environment. This CTP will not function after March 2010.

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