This is fantastic news. I'd like to blog about it. Does the press
release have a unique URL that I can link to?
Thanks
S.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 10, 2008 11:06:40 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Achieves Ten Million
Downloads at the End of its Beijing Conference
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice.org Achieves Ten Million Downloads at the End of its
Beijing Conference
Early on Sunday morning, the OpenOffice.org Community passed the ten
million downloads mark for the latest version of its software, just
four weeks after the launch on October 13th. The week also marked
the first time the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference has been held
outside Europe.
November 10, 2008 -- Early on Sunday 9th, the OpenOffice.org
Community achieved an historic milestone, when the ten millionth
person clicked on the "Download OpenOffice.org" button since the
Community announced version 3.0, just four weeks ago. The week also
saw the first time the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference has been
held outside Europe, with over four hundred people attending the
Conference in Beijing, China from Wednesday to Friday.
John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead, explained the importance of
the two events. "Since the launch of OpenOffice.org 3.0, we have had
a verifiable record of downloads from central website. We were
delighted to hit a million downloads in the first two days. Four
weeks later, we have hit ten million, and we are still seeing an
amazing 250,000 - 350,000 downloads a day. For a community with no
advertising budget, this is an astonishing level of product
awareness around the world. Add to this the success of our Beijing
Conference, and there can be no doubt that OpenOffice.org is now
genuinely a global phenomenon."
What makes the statistics impressive is that they only record
downloads via the OpenOffice.org website, and exclude for example
large numbers of Linux users who generally download software from
their own distributor. There are estimated to be eight million users
of Ubuntu Linux alone, the majority of whom rely on OpenOffice.org
for their office software. In addition, many users obtain
OpenOffice.org via other mirrors, peer-to-peer networks, CDs, or
other media. The total number of OpenOffice.org users worldwide is
not known, but the Community believes it is well on track to reach
its declared target of a 40% market share worldwide by 2010.
Finally, even with this level of market acceptance, the Community is
not complacent. The OpenOffice.org Bug Bounty Programme is still
open, offering cash prizes of up to 500 Euro to new developers who
help fix bugs reported by users. This is part of ongoing activity to
encourage additional developers, which has already resulted in a
record number of contributors working on the 3.0 release.
Links
Information about OpenOffice.org 3.0 software:
http://www.openoffice.org/product/
Download OpenOffice.org 3.0 for free: http://download.openoffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Bug Bounty Programme:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BugBountyProgram
The case for OpenOffice.org: http://why.openoffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/
Planet: http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/
Graphs: http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html
FAQ: http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html
Contacts
John McCreesh (UTC)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
jpmcc @ openoffice.org
+44 (0)7 810 278 540
Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
floeff @ openoffice.org
+49 151 14424108
Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis @ openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625 3843
International Marketing Contacts: http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html
About OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer
and sponsored contributors who develop, translate, support, and
promote the leading open source office productivity suite,
OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org's leading edge software technology
(UNO) is also available for developers, systems integrators, etc. to
use in OpenOffice.org extensions or in their own applications.
OpenOffice.org uses the OpenDocument Format OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC
26300) as well as supporting legacy file formats such as Microsoft
Office, and is available on major computing platforms in over 100
languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser
General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any
purpose, private or commercial.
The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from
a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding
sponsor and primary contributor.
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