Better Late than Never- WCS8 has been released

WCS 7.0 initial version was released on 2010-October . Exactly after 5 yeras IBM announced the new version of WebSphere commerce - Version 8.0

Here are the quick take away ..

•    CSR – Customer service representative features.    A brand new features exclusively  for CSR . This is a mandatory tool for any ecommerce applicattion . Thanks IBM to recognize the industry need
•    SaaS Based Cloud support - As expected .. Yet to see how the architecture difference on cloud
•    Spring Supported Management center - Happy for all Spring loving developers

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS215-305&appname=USN



infocenter is given below
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZLC2/landing/wc_welcome.html?lang=en


Waiting for there  technical release



Also  announced the WCS 6.0 discontinue dates : Good by WCS 6.0 .
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21967814&myns=swgws&mynp=OCSSYSYL&mynp=OCSSZMJX&mynp=OCSSPK6A&mync=E&cm_sp=swgws-_-OCSSYSYL-OCSSZMJX-OCSSPK6A-_-E