Magento 2 is currently in Merchant Beta and in this presentation I've looked at what you can expect from a Merchant point of view - Presentation was given at the first meetup of www.meetup.com/liverpoolmagentogroup
Kutner through their company Varien Inc in 2007 • First public release of Magento March 2008 • Magento Enterprise 2009 • Sold to Ebay in 2011 and now part of Ebay Enterprise • Roy Rubin & Yoav Kutner have left in the years following Ebay takeover • Magento 2 will be released in 2015 • Ebay Enterprise / Magento sold to Private Equity firm - actively investing in platform
has been in the works for a few years • Officially announced in 2014 with release plan for 2015 • Magento 2 Beta Since Q4 2014 • Magento 2 Merchant Beta Since July 2015 • Magento 2 General Availability - Expected for Q4 2015
• Checkout improvements • Previous Enterprise features such as Full Page Cache is now CE feature • Performance improvements • Scalability improvements • Product import/export improvements • New Magento Connect • Code structure improvements • More Open development process
for Tablet/Mobile • Flexible data grids, drag and drop, custom views and configurable columns • Product Administration • Side navigation - re-organised • New Product Attribute swatches
box • Standalone DB for Order Management System & Checkout (Enterprise) • Compatibility with MySQL cluster (Enterprise) • Concurrent order management - 50+ (Enterprise) • Concurrent product management - 250+ (Enterprise) • Magento CE can handle 50k orders per hour • Magento EE can handle 90k orders per hour and 300+ concurrent users on order
currently in process across the globe • General Availability expected for November 2015 • More features to be added between now and GA • New Magento Connect in time for GA • M2 Certification - based on working knowledge - late 2016 • Migration Tool from M1 to M2 • Training is available now from Magento