Magento FAQ. What is Magento ? Who owns Magento ? etc

Who owns Magento ? What is Magento ? We'll try to answer these questions in this FAQ page.

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform, meaning anyone can download the source code and host your own online shop.

It is written in PHP, the most popular Programming language powering the web.

Magento is used as an ecommerce platform, and allows online sales of products.

As of 2018 Adobe is the owner of Magento. Magento got acquired to be integrated into Adobe Experience Cloud.

Magento is written in PHP with a MySql database for management.

Magento is used by some of the biggest names in the ecommerce industry like: Landrover, Nespresso, Ford, Nestle, Cox & Cox, Liverpool or Jaguar.

The main advantage Magento has is the 10+ years of developing the platform, did we mention its FREE to install ?

It is recommended to always use the latest Magento version, due to security and functionality reasons.

The Magento Ecommerce platform is FREE to download and host on your own server.