Hi, 2011/6/7 Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com>: >> 3) LOTS of people download OOo >> Like maybe 10% of the human population of the planet. And its a big file. >> Initially we engaged Akamai, but it quickly became too expensive. Serving up >> downloads of OOo was pretty intense. I know Apache has all that web server >> download traffic and all...but I'm telling you Sun.com quailed at the >> throughput, and we shouldn't assume our mileage will vary. There will be >> extraordinary infrastructure costs, because it is end-user software (and >> there are a LOT of users worldwide). Sun mitigated this problem with >> mirrors, but of course that screwed download stats. > > do you have any numbers? > > I am really curious - people are always saying that but I cannot get > out numbers. I believe all you said, I just would like to know how > much it is actually > Have a look at http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html Maybe a bit outdated and actually there is no release date in the displayed time. The old load balancer (bouncer) usually failed totally when a new version was announced, therefore OOo switched to Suse's Mirrorbrain.
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