Magento2

History of Magento

Magento 2 is the latest upgrade of Magento, which was originally developed by Varien Inc, an US private company headquartered in Culver City, California, combining with the voluntary assistance. Started officially in 2007, which to be more certain, August 31 is the date of first public beta version release. Then Roy Rubin, CEO of Varien decided to sell a substantial of 49% share to eBay. Later, eBay acquired ownership 100% of Magento 2 on June 6, 2011, but spun out as an independent company by new owner Permira private equity fund on November 3, 2015.
On November 17, 2015, Magento 2 was officially released. Inherited lots of success factors of Magento, Magento 2 also present modern technologies and structure, as well as modified directory structure but more simplified customization. Now Magento 2 and Magento 1 are existing simultaneously.


1 comment:

  1. How to add new country in magento2 ?

    i have follow add below steps but not succeed. please suggest me

    Step1: Open lib/zend/locale/data/en.xml

    Step2: Locate territories tag in this file

    Step3: copy one of territory tags for the syntax and paste it within the territories tag

    Step4: hard part here is to add country code in this file as might not be able to find a unique one, so it’s upto you.

    Step5: Save this file

    Step6: Open table name directory_country

    Step7: It has predefined syntax follow then same and create a new row and enter the same country code as entered in the en.xml file in 3 columns

    Step8: Refresh the site’s cache.

    Step9: Admin > Configuration > General






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