Year of 3 / Week of 3
October 19th, 2008If 2008 is “The Year of 3″ – the year OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released – then it looks like the first week after launch will be “The Week of 3″ – the week 3 million copies were downloaded from the Bouncer system:
What are Bouncer figures? 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. For example, Linux users account for less than 10% of the downloads we record in Bouncer, as most Linux users download OpenOffice.org via their distributor rather than directly from us. Similarly some of our larger native-lang communities don’t use Bouncer.
Direct download is only one distribution method, and only usable if you have a broadband connection. The next option is via CD-ROM, possibly bought locally. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is also being added to cover disks for PC magazines around the world, so as time goes by, the number of on-line installs decreases, and off-line increases.
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?
What’s our target? well, in our Strategic Marketing Plan – published in 2004 – we aimed to have a 40% market share by 2010. That doesn’t seem as ambitious today as it did four years ago. The “Year of 3″ is a notable milestone en route.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
[...] http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/ [...]
October 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
[...] http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/19/year-of-3-week-of-3/ [...]
October 21st, 2008 at 7:10 pm
[...] Por fim, os downloads feitos por utilizadores Mac ascenderam aos 320 mil na primeira semana, refere o grupo num post. [...]
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 am
[...] Linux users, who usually get updates via their vendor. He guesses there might actually 5 million installed copies out there right now of the latest version of [...]
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 am
[...] He guesses there might actually 5 million installed copies out there right now of the latest [...]
October 24th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
[...] Por fim, os downloads feitos por utilizadores Mac ascenderam aos 320 mil na primeira semana, refere o grupo num post. [...]
October 27th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
[...] With the undercount included, OpenOffice.org 3.0 may already be installed on up to 5 million computers worldwide, McCreesh said in a blog post. [...]
October 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
OpenOffice 3.0 redan installerat pÃ¥ 5 miljoner datorer?…
OpenOffice har verkligen slagit rekord i och med lanseringen av version 3.0. Som jag rapporterat tidigare laddades programpaketet ner ungefär tre miljoner gÃ¥nger bara under första veckan. 80 procent av dessa nerladdning var Windowsversionen, och vä…
October 27th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
[...] vor nicht allzu langer Zeit wurde die Software bereits fast 3.000.000x heruntergeladen. In seinem Blog schreibt Meall Dubh jedoch das dies nur ein weiterer Meilenstein auf dem Weg sei. Bis 2010 möchten [...]
October 29th, 2008 at 8:05 am
[...] wurden. Viele Linux-Nutzer würden die Software jedoch direkt über ihren Distributor erhalten, schreibt McCreesh. Zudem werde OpenOffice.org auch auf CDs unter anderem in Computer-Magazinen [...]