Why not try to lighten up Magento (already 2.0) than OSCommerce which is riddled with legacy? There are enough OSCommerce engined packages out there, I really don't see how this differs to those? I process hundreds of orders per day through my e-store, when I downloaded and built a site with OSCMax it added hours to my day as bulk order processing functions were totally inadequate.

I would strongly agree with the other reviewers - a strong development team backup by active (and friendly) forums along with decent documentation in their wiki makes for a compelling package.

v2.5 is soon to be release which will make this one of the best in class - truely open-source software - no hidden catches or modules to buy.

All in all - a well thought out and presented package.

osCMax v2.0.25 and v2.1

An excellent e-commerce package built on the osCommerce platform but with almost every use contribution installed and properly integrated into a well finshed and useable package.

A soon to be released update (v2.1) will bring even more functionality making this a real class leading product.

Truely open source - no pay per use, pay for template or server restrictions.

Forums are actively run and I agree with the other reviewer - questions are normally answered in a matter on minutes with friendly answers (even for less experienced users).

Large amount of updates have been made to the wiki (wiki.oscdox.com) which makes this one of the best documented osCommerce forks.

Overall: Light weight code, excellent functionality, quick, secure, good support.

osCMax is an open source software package built on the osCommerce platform but with numerous of additional modules installed to make your e-commerce store fully featured out of the box.

Most key modules are already installed but due to the source code remaining faithful to osCommerce pretty much any of their 5000+ modules can be install easily.

The software is undergoing significant improvements at the moment to PHP5.3 and adopting many Web2.0 functionality.

A simple templating system allows novice users to create fully functional store with relative ease. It remains fast, secure and lightweight unlike Magento and others.

I have found that their active forums (http://www.oscmax.com) and documentation (http://wiki.oscmax.com) to be second to none in this space. Questions are normally answered within minutes rather than days by knowledgeable and friendly forum members.