[nbauman]

Not sure how big, but I would actually say it hasn't been fast. Magento has been in existence in some form for almost 10 years, starting as a product they used with consulting clients. This has been a loooong road for the Varien team.

[cal5k]

This is a fair point. Speaks to the idea that most overnight successes are 10 years in the making :-)

[hackernewz]

So, they've been using Zend Framework for 10 years?

[olalonde]

No, Zend Framework dates from ~2006.

[mgkimsal]

I think that was the point of the 'ZF' comment. Whatever varien had as an ecommerce package before their ZF uptake was likely different enough from what Magento was that it's not terribly accurate or useful to say "magento's been around for 10 years".

Magento in its current form has been around for ~4 years.

Wikipedia even indicates that Varien was using osCommerce before Magento was developed, so they likely didn't have a full commerce stack of their own for the last 10 years.

[nbauman]

Agreed - would have been more accurate to say Varien rather than Magento.