Re: Looking for Catalog Software
They're using custom-developed in-house software, not an off-the-shelf package -- and the software has been around for quite a while, seen a number of (inadequate) patches, and is in bad need of an overhaul. (It's still HTML 4.0 Transitional and in quirks mode at that. It probably renders just fine in IE4 and Netscape Navigator 4.7, but who cares?) The database software is probably a standard RDBMS, like Oracle or IBM DB/2 (or even something like Progress, given the age), but the site software is definitely an in-house build (you can tell by the issue tracker comments in the HTML, the "enterprise" names/ids for HTML elements and the randomly-placed inline JavaScript).
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.” --Donald Knuth
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