I want to develop business listing directory that is also a community site with all the functions one expects in a community. I am considering developing the site on Magento, but it will not be a normal e-commerce site. In fact we won't be using the shopping cart and nothing will be for sale.
Magento has the structure and many of the functions built in that we are looking for in a beta site. It's all php 5 and that is the biggest deal for us right now, because of the tweaking we will do going forward.
Some of the different objectives for the project:
1. Remove "buy now" along with anything that has to do with shopping from the system, maybe not for good, but at least disable it.
2. I would like registered users to have the ability to edit and submit products, products in our case will be businesses.
3. We want to integrate an open source community platform like [login to view URL] Dolphin.
this is a starting point.