Some recent evolutions of X-commerce platforms ...

Objectives are to help companies create unified customer experiences across channels - including those ever important new channels like mobile and social.

• Oracle purchases e-commerce vendor ATG and FatWire (customer experience management company and provides tools for content management, community forums, analytics, digital asset management, etc.)
• IBM purchases e-commerce vendor Sterling Commerce.
• Adobe announced the Digital Enterprise Platform and new development platform around flash and Flex to create applications that will run on all mobile platforms.
• ebay: 
• commerce platform : magento – buying tunnel
• payments: paypal
• Loyalty, listings and shopping list: where (location media company), milo (local shopping app), redlaser (QR code and listings) and fig cards
• API to enable Mobile developers to use the platform