Open Office 3 million downloads

Over 3 Million OpenOffice.org 3.0 Downloads in One Week

OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released one week ago today. John McCreesh writes:

“From the official announcement on Monday 13th October at 09:00 UTC, to midnight on Sunday 20th October, OpenOffice.org 3.0 recorded an astonishing three million downloads via the Bouncer. That’s:

• 221,230 GNU/Linux users (who might be considered obvious users of the world’s leading open-source office suite)
• an impressive 320,622 Mac OS X users (enjoying OpenOffice.org with a Mac “look and feel” for the first time), and
• a staggering 2,449,863 Microsoft Windows users.”

Another of John’s posts provides additional information and analysis.

“If you download OpenOffice.org from the download page, you will go via the Bouncer, and your download will be logged. These logs are the only figures we are able to quantify accurately, but they are a considerable underestimate of the actual number of downloads…”

So how many people are already using OpenOffice.org 3.0? No-one knows. We know that the Bouncer figures underestimate the number of downloads. We know the number of downloads is considerably less than the number of installed copies. So five million users already?”

The release of OOo 3.0 is definitely its biggest to date. The userbase is clearly expanding, and now Mac OS X can be a part of that, as in this first week its downloads represent a healthy piece of the total, at almost 11%

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