A tool for migrating your osCommerce site to Magento has been updated at Magento Connect.  For those of us that our osCommerce users looking for other options, this is exciting stuff.  The new version offers improvements in UTF8 conversion and product image importing.  This tool even has its very own wiki page.

Thanks to a post at OpenSourceCommunity.org, I came across a conversion tool to allow you to import the SMF 1.1 database into a phpBB 3 site. Information about the conversion tool can be found in a forum post at phpbb.com. By the way, the script is still in beta, meaning that it works but you might find some bugs since it is not fully tested.

It is not that I'm encouraging anyone to convert their site from SMF to phpBB, but it is very nice to have options such as these available. In fact if anyone can point me to a good conversion tool for migrating a phpBB database to SMF, I would welcome the information.

Owen Lovelock from Vamosa wrote to us about his company's products including the free Vamosa Community Edition. In the e-mail below he writes, "I think it would be of great interest and value to your readers and members of this site and would greatly appreciate your help in distributing the news to them".

In appreciation that he didn't post his "message" as comment spam and instead contacted us through the proper channels, I give you Mr. Lovelock's summary regarding his company's free content analysis and migration software...

At Vamosa we recently released a free version of our software - Vamosa Community Edition. It combines the functionality of our leading products Content Analyser and Content Migrator) into a single, freely downloadable content analysis and migration tool. Although Community Edition’s processing engine is limited to 1,000 unique URL’s it will:

• Improve content quality through the removal of duplicate and out-dated content
• Enhance content via the application of relevant metadata
• Apply taxonomy and classification to content
• Export all content to XML
  

As I said it is free to download from www.vamosa.com. The main objective of the product is to increase awareness of the issues of content analysis and migration and the benefits an automated approach can offer. In distributing our software free of charge we hope to achieve this in the wider content management community.

Owen Lovelock
www.vamosa.com
+44 (0)141 574 2518 (UK)