(January 14, 2003) - LaGarde, Inc., a leading provider of e-business solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced the immediate availability of their StoreFront 6.0 e-commerce software. It's described as a development platform built on .NET that "offers a range of functionality for Web developers and ISPs to design, deploy, and maintain full-featured, 'Amazon.com-like' e-commerce Web stores." LaGarde claims that the StoreFront platform supports seamless integration with Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Intuit QuickBooks and is in use by more than 35,000 Web sites in over 70 countries worldwide.

A full range of open source ASP.NET application pages and documented .NET objects and APIs are intended to enable developer customization of StoreFront's features. The product also now features an "advanced product import tool", intended to save time by fully automating the process of adding products to a store or updating their attributes.

StoreFront AE is priced at $979. StoreFront XE is priced at $1379, and includes the Visual .NET project. . For more information visit www.storefront.net