First million!
October 15th, 2008
I’ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of OpenOffice.org 3.0. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer – despite all the issues with the web site – plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don’t use the bouncer).
The first reviews coming through are also favourable – see PCPro for example, or check our reviews page.. Now all we have to do is get the web site working again 
October 16th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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October 17th, 2008 at 7:08 am
So how do you count the number of linux installs doing
apt-get install openoffice-3.0
or whatever? You have to collate the statistics from all major sources you can, and extrapolate to the ones you can’t, then provide statistics for both…
October 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Agreed. Two million is a very conservative estimate of the total downloads … as you say, there are the repositories we don’t have figures for, there are people who bypass the bouncer (some of the bigger native-lang projects encourage people to do this), there are BitTorrent users, there are people on low bandwidth connections who choose to buy CDs, … etc.
The actual number of real downloads is certainly greater than this; the number of installs is greater still. By how much, we don’t know.
John