Commerce Server 2009 - for the 2007 user
A colleague asked me the other day – if I have a CS2007 site and
don’t feel like changing it (much) at the moment, what’s in it for me
to upgrade to Commerce Server 2009? A very good question indeed – I
thought…
First, Commerce Server 2009 does not break any
compatibility with Commerce Server 2007. So, code that runs on CS2007
will run on CS2009 – unmodified.
Second, Commerce Server 2009
includes a number of fixes over and above SP2 from Commerce Server
2007. So to get the most stable version of the CS2007 bits, one should
be running CS2009.
Third is support lifecycle; Microsoft’s
standard support policy is 5 Years of Standard Support and 5 Years of
Extended Support. Standard support began in 2006 for Commerce Server
2007, versus 2009 for the 2009 version. So you automatically get 3 more
years of support.
Fourth and finally is platform support –
CS2009 is tested with the latest and greatest – and will be evolved
throughout its support lifecycle.
With respect to some other questions:
- Performance
of the Core System (old) APIs will be about the same on '09 versus '07
- '09 does have more fixes as reported by customers rolled in than '07
SP2 though
- The new Commerce Foundation APIs when used in an
ASP.NET site will perform marginally better than the old Core System
APIs if used correctly; less so if used incorrectly
So – that’s it in a nutshell. Hope this helps!
