Magento VS Prestashop | ArticlesBase.com
In this days of Open source eCommerce, After the power Magento, I got to know of another opensource eCommerce shopping cart software which seemed to inline with Magentos principles of offering a top-notch eCommerce software for free and I have had the pleasure to test drive " and install in production environment " Prestashop, a simpler alternative, that serves eCommerce with a nice ajax animated shopping cart and various interesting features.
1) Prestashop and Magento both e-commerce solutions are available under Open Software License (OSL).
2) Prestashop Installation requirements are Depends on GD library of PHP. For magento installation need a lot of extensions like PDO, CURL etc

