Hi, nice to meet you all ...
I have to build a digital library with ecommerce functionalities for an important publishing company in Italy ...
After assessing other carts (Magento, Cs-Cart, ecc.) trying to find something standardized and pre-done, I realized that DRUPAL is the only tool that will meet the specific properties of the library (mainly pubblications - articles - authors 1-n & n-n relationships).
This will mean more customization work, but I'm happy anyway because I'm loving the features and capabilities of Drupal.
I would like to have some advice about which way to go from the beginning, regarding Drupal 6 or Drupal 7.
Correct me if I am wrong, but with Drupal 6 I guess I will take advantage of Ubercart for ecommerce functionalities: a quite mature solution, but without further innovation for the future.
With Drupal 7 I will enjoy its new functionalities, but would bet on the foreseen effectiveness and stability (and completeness) of drupalcommerce (http://www.drupalcommerce.org/) for the ecommerce.
In my project the main priority is the library catalogue structure definition and usability, in front and back end.
But in 2 or 3 months I would need to implement solid ecommerce functionalities to its items ...
So, please, what would you suggest to go for, now?
Drupal 6 + Ubercart or Drupal 7 + drupalcommerce (alfa/beta ... )?
Would be easy (or how much hard?), to migrate from the former (more solid and stable) to the latter (new and with more future) solution in a second time?
Thanks a lot (and cheers from Italy ...)