Results table

Below, you'll find the 1-10 score given to each app by our reviewers. To obtain the final score: Multiply each individual score by the weighting given that category, then add up all those resulting numbers. Click on vendor name for a detailed product-spec sheet.

	IBM	Macro- media	Miva	Tomato Springs
Features	9	8	7	4
Manageability	8	7	6	6
Performance	9	7	6	7
Reporting	8	7	7	6
Installation	6	7	5	6
Documentation	6	8	5	5
Our total	8.3	7.35	6.35	5.55
YOUR TOTAL

NetResults

WebSphere Commerce Suite 4.1 beta, and Commerce Studio Developer Edition 4.1 beta (needed for Web site development)
IBM
(800) 342-6672, (914) 765-1900
Web site
Price not available. Previous release of WebSphere Commerce Suite, called Net.Commerce, was $4,749. WebSphere Studio Developer was $425.
Pros: Extremely capable site creation and business-to-business interface definition.
Cons: Requires some programming expertise.

Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce Edition
Macromedia
(800) 457-1774, (415) 252-2000
$499
Pros: Easy-to-use wizards for site creation and data access.
Cons: Relies on Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) technology for emitting dynamic Web pages.

Merchant 2.0
Empresa 3.63 (scripting engine needed to run Merchant 2.0 e-commerce scripts)
Miva
(858) 490-2570
Web site
$895 per CPU/domain
Pros: Miva Script language, via Empresa, adds
ASP-like server-side features to non-Microsoft Internet Information Server Web servers.
Cons: Much more sophisticated than Active-
Com-merce, but still just a storefront creation tool.

ActiveCommerce Plus 1.0
Tomato Springs Software
(888) 968-8772, (949) 459-6981
$5,995 (Plus edition), $9,995 (Enterprise edition)
Pros: Uses purchase order metaphor rather than a shopping cart.
Cons: Really just a storefront catalog display and rudimentary order taker.

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