Those of you who keep an eye on the OpenOffice.org downloads counter on the Marketing Planet will have noticed it creeping towards the 50 million mark (my guess is that it will reach the magic number early in the week beginning 23rd March). This is an extraordinary number of downloads since OpenOffice.org 3.0 was launched last October – and it only measures one of the channels from which users obtain OpenOffice.org (see the FAQ for more details).

We’ve believed for some time that OpenOffice.org’s percent market share is well into double figures, and at the start of this year we were given sight of data from a well-respected research organisation which confirmed that belief.  Writing in cnet, Matt Asay estimates 11 million active daily users of OpenOffice.org in the US alone.

With OpenOffice.org 3.1 now expected around Easter, I wonder will we hit 100 million by the end of the year?

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