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OpenOffice 3.0: Three Million Downloads in the First Week

Posted by brittaw on · 6 comments
Linux Pro Magazine; By Kristian Kissling 		Mail this story
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In an announcement on his blog, the UK's OpenOffice Marketing Manager, John McCreesh, states that in the first week of its release, OpenOffice.org 3.0 registered over 3 million downloads. Yet the project only records downloads from the so-called Bouncer website.

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Comments (6)

tracyanne ·
because OO.o comes bundled with most, if not all Linux Distros. OO.o 3 is the default Office package on Mandriva Linux 2009.0.

It must be all those Bunties installing it
tuxchick ·
Oh, I thought they were Ubunuts.
techiem2 ·
Yeah, and you'll notice it wasn't a total count, just of one download system. I torrented the Windows version for when needed but installed on my own machines via portage.
rijelkentaurus ·
3 gets downloaded by people running Etch, CentOS/Red Hat 5, and anything else that is generally "old and moldy".
Sander_Marechal ·
Don't you dare call my Etch box "old and moldy" :-)
rijelkentaurus ·
"Established and stable"?

:-)

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