After stripping out some ‘odd’ entries in the logs:

By the time you read this, there will have been over two million downloads of OpenOffice.org via the ‘bouncer’ since we announced OpenOffice.org 3.0. The bouncer is the main (but not the only) mechanism for users to download the software, and it was largely inaccessible while the main OpenOffice.org download page was down. The first [...]

The OpenOffice.org website is now back in operation, so if you have been waiting to access it to find out more about the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.0, or download a copy, then please go ahead! Despite the website issues, downloads show no sign of slowing down (except for Mac OS users – maybe their [...]

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 [...]

Frank Mau has reported that we recorded over 350,000 download requests in the first 24 hours since OpenOffice.org 3.0 was launched – and that was while the servers were working Our nearest competitor costs (say) Euro 200 a copy. That’s Euro 70 million saved in a day by savvy users. In anybody’s books, that’s a [...]

A report from the Collabnet staff who run our web infrastructure, explaining why the OpenOffice.org site has been down since we announced OpenOffice.org 3.0 at 09:00 UTC yesterday: * the site caching mechanism was knocked out on Monday by an unprecedented volume of page hits * efforts to bring the caching mechanism back to life [...]

On Friday the OpenOffice.org Release Committee signed off Release Candidate 4 to become OpenOffice.org 3.0, and decided to roll out the new version over the weekend so we could make the official availability announcement on Monday morning (today), in time for the Paris Launch Party. This triggered a weekend of frantic activity for the Marketing [...]