Canux 2.0 - Premiere Canadian Linux E-Retailer Gets Major Overhaul
Mar 21st, 17:12 UTC
Renfrew, Ontario - March 21, 2000 - Lazarus Engineering Corporation
today announced that one of Canada's first Linux-only on-line shopping
destinations has re-opened it's doors with an entirely new web site.
Canux has been serving the commercial
linux community on-line since May 1999 with products and services
specifically tailored to Canadian consumers. Today they have re-opened
their doors with a new look and some new Linux technology behind the site.
"Canux needed a flexible architecture and Apache JServ was the key."
said Lazarus Engineering Corp.'s founder and CEO Steve Cockwell. "You
can't do E-Commerce right in Canada with solutions that were built for
the U.S. market. We needed three different taxation methods, postal
code shipping tables, prices in Canadian dollars, and product weights
in Kilograms."
Canux is built upon Linux and Open Source foundations. Web pages
dynamically generated by a shopping cart servlet are handled through
Apache JServ with a MySQL backend database system. OpenSSL provides
connection security. This architecture gives Canux extensibility -
allowing new features to be added to the site in hours rather than
weeks.
In an effort to bolster Open Source E-Commerce development in Canada
Canux has announced that they will be setting up a forum for Linux
professionals interested in working in this area. "Canux is 90% Open
Source right now - I expect it to be 100% within six months." said
Steve Cockwell. "The Canadian market - particularly small to medium-
sized business - are crying out for a solution like this one. We're
going to do our best to ensure the needs of this market are met."
Canux re-launches with specials on the brand new Corel WordPerfect Office
2000 and Loki's newest title Heavy Gear II.
Lazarus Engineering Corporation
Lazarus Engineering Corporation has been providing custom software,
hardware and network development and consulting services the world
over since 1994. For more information on the company, please visit
www.lazarus.ca or
email them at info@lazarus.ca.
The Canux web site can be found at
www.canux.com.
(Submitted by Steve Cockwell of Lazarus Engineering Corp.)
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