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 Project. We had already committed to produce the final Conference Programme for the OpenOffice.org Conference – now only three weeks off. Now we also had to ready the Press Release (led for the first time by Crossroads), a Community announcement, refresh the Press Kit, the Product pages, and the why mini-site, and prepare a new home page and news page for the launch at 09:00 UTC this morning.

The launch went off as planned – what we hadn’t planned for was the phenomenal interest which has crippled our entire web infrastructure since about noon BST. The engineers managed to cobble together a quick temporary landing page to apologise to people trying to find out more about 3.0.

So, three years in the making, release 3.0 already is attracting huge interest. If you haven’t checked out the new features, and downloaded the software to find out what the fuss is all about, then why not give it a try – but it might be wise to wait a day or so until the servers have cooled down a bit

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