If you are not on a VPS server with their company, you face SERIOUS PCI non-compliance issues. rstexas001, rstexas002, rstexas003, rstexas004, rstexas005h, rstexas007h all have vulnerabilities. All have been hacked and failed to be reported to the Federal Trade Commission is required by law and to their custom base.

While I was the division manager thrown in with no Linux experience. I invested $2,500.00 of my own money to become acclimated with Linux operations. None of which was reimbursed by the former corporation name.

Several times I requested additional staff who are highly capable systems administrator qualified. When something didn’t go right, you bet Mr. Sal Iozzia would call me up on a Sunday evening using four letter foul language over the phone.

On the surface, he is a nice guy. Funny and witty and has a big heart. Down below, with money and business, I would not stake a single dollar in his endeavors as majority stock holder.

The former CEO, Michael Valverde relented in email correspondence that Mr. Iozzia is a hindrance to the divisions progress yet blame was squarely faced on me for not fulfilling the primary goals.

Just in case there is any contradiction in my performance I can provide a signed copy of my letter of recommendation from CRE.

Having recently been pointed to your series on CRE Loaded, I read them all with great interest. Your CRE Recommendations are right on the money, and many of them are being implemented in the EOS Online Merchant distribution on which Tom O’Neill and I have been working for the past few months.

You might be interested to know that many of your recommendations are not new to Chain Reaction, and that their rejection factored significantly into my departure from the company in June of 2007.

My own response has been to start building a new project, and a new community at http://www.oscommerceuniversity.com. I hope you will consider participating in this community. The recommendations you have written show the kind of strategic thinking we need from our participants in order to succeed.

EOS development has focused thus far on significant clean up of the previous CRE Loaded base code, and on applying a few major refactorings.

EOS source code is already available at http://downloads.sourceforge.net/eoscart/eos_alpha_0_5.zip?use_mirror=internap&filesize=8124714

Discussions related to EOS and CRE Loaded can be found in our forums at http://www.oscommerceuniversity.com/lounge/ and design notes can be found in our wiki.

I think you will find the difference in approach to project management and community development refreshingly different.