We've been working full steam on the implementation of the vendor portal and we would like to take this opportunity to release a progress report:

• We've selected some open-source components which we are now leveraging to accelerate development. This is good news because it will cut down on costs, time and increase quality. These components include things like an ORM layer, robust category management, etc. By using these components we can eliminate a significant portion of the work we had envisioned
• Due to the above progress is quite a bit faster than originally planned and we can rely on proven code which we don't have to maintain

The bottom line is that we're speeding along and that we hope to have an alpha/beta version of the portal available sometime during July.