RE: What do you expect?

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[quote]It's not only about adding a CMS or not - you could save coding-effort by using the Postnuke-API. As simple as that. There is a permission system. There is a user system. There is a templating system. Save time and use it. It would even make osc more secure as the whole pn community would have an eye on the API. [/quote]

Well, if the osC dev team wants to do it their way because they think it's better and want to use the same coding standards etc. as they already have, then I can see why they wouldn't use your API.  I'm sure they would consider all of the CMS API's if/when they decide to go down that road.  But, people write new things all of the time because they don't want or like what's out there.  I'm not a CMS guru at all but I doubt Postnuke was the very first CMS out there.  Did you take someone else's code and use it because it was already done, or did you code it yourself?

[quote]And you don't prescribe your users to only have a shop. THEY can choose if they want the rest of the CMS or not. [quote]

I would hope so.

[quote]And to answer directly to your question: Have you ever been on the website of some automobile company? They have beautiful websites with shops - but no info around it. On the other Hand there are hundred thousands of people on car newsgroups, in forums and making their own websites. If you really want so sell on a large scale you need a community - people who hang around your site. They give you free feedback on your products and how to improve them. Probably some would give free support to new customers...[/quote]

I can understand your point here, but don't totally agree with it.  I think it can go both ways, you can have a great community on your shop, but then it's just another thing to worry about.  Moderating being the main thing.  You get a few bad apples and the community can go to hell.  If I really wanted a CMS to go along with my shop right now, I would take the two seconds to create a second database, set it up, and put a link to it on the front page of my shop.  Since it's so easy to change the look of CMS', I would just modify it to look like my site and be done with it.  That way, if one get's screwed up i.e. the shop or the CMS, the other one is fine.  Just my opinion.  

Another thing is a lot of people complain about having to create another account to buy stuff hence the purchase without account mod.  If they want to be part of the community they will definitely have to create another account unless there is going to have anonymous access.