TOKYO, Japan — April 21, 2016 — The Plant today announced that QOR, its open source SDK for E-Commerce & CMS development, is now available in version 1.0. For this public release QOR has been completely rewritten in Go.

QOR is a versatile SDK that gives developers the freedom and capabilities to create cutting-edge platforms & web apps. For this first public release we have focused on rewriting and providing all the libraries and widgets necessary for building a CMS, in the upcoming releases we'll be adding more e-commerce specific widgets and modules to the core libraries.

Introduced in 2010, QOR is now powering full scale e-commerce websites and content management systems for many global brands and SMEs.

The QOR open source code is available via GitHub where we also provide a simple demo e-commerce application with source code to get up and running quickly. QOR is licensed under the popular MIT open source license.

Founded in 2005 in Tokyo, the Plant is a development house with a focus on creating smart, efficient web applications that are both easy to use and easy to manage – software that works for you. More than just a tech company, The Plant addresses all your goals, from technology through user experience to branding and profitability.