Architecture, Versioning and API support [closed]

Question

What is the architecture of Magento and Magento Go? Is Magento Go simply a subset of Magento or is it an entirely separate product/code base?

What is the process for determining the version for Magento vs. Magento Go? Are their versions incremented and set in parallel, independently or in some other fashion?

I know that the minimum version to support the SOAP WSI API is 1.6. What is the minimum version of the Magento Go that supports the SOAP WSI API?

Answer 1

I have little experience with Magento Go so please correct me if I'm wrong but here goes.

Magento Go is actually a hosted service running on Magento CE edition, There are some differences between the code bases tho but Go is based on CE so it should be relatively similar. There are a lot of differences in appearance in at least the backend. To see what version Magento GO is on right now check out http://go.magento.com/support/releases/

As Magento go is a hosted solution you can't really choose the version you want. But I'm almost 100% sure it supports the WSDL API shipped with Magento CE 1.6

Answer 2

Bascially Magento Go is the hosted version which should target sub $100,000 revenue stores and not as extensible, Magento CE for $100,000-$2million revenue (Micro Enterprise) and Magento EE for $2-10million revenue stores (Small Enterprise). Medium Enterprise ($10-50million revenue) you have Hybris and Demandware.