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Downloads on OpenOffice.org

First, let me congratulate the Mozilla community on the very, very high download number of Firefox 3 in the first 24 hours. The download-day was in my eyes a great success for the Mozilla community. Marketing and all background-members of Mozilla.org did a good job and raise the bar for a software-rollout.

Back to OpenOffice.org and its versions. Looking back on our last download numbers we can see them increasing version by version. We grow over 20% from Version 2.3.1 to 2.4.0. Now the 2.4.1 started and it looks good to beat our own record.

Some possible reasons for the strong growth

Well, certainly our OpenOffice.org is a good product, for free and localized in many languages. We have extensions to extend office functionality if needed. In the back-ground runs the update-service to guarantee that the user get the latest updates. Apropos notification, our friends from java.com notified by each java-update that you can get the office productity suite. Big thank you for this hint! - But beside this we also changed some things in the web-area.

The OpenOffice.org website-team, here explicit named Maarten and Ivan did a very good job changing the whole web-design to a new look-and-feel plus a redesign of our pages. This improves the usability enormously.

Another factor is the one-download-click that enables the user to get the download starting with one-click from the homepage or the download main-page. In numbers, before we started with the one-click and the redesign of the pages 10% of visitors started a download of OpenOffice.org after visting the homepage. After the introduction of the one-click and the other web-changes 20%. Hey, this was a big step forward to grow.

Expectations for the future

The OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 is on the way and I believe it will break our previous download-numbers. Looking at Firefox and their version number 3, I hope we will also have a big success with our upcoming OpenOffice.org 3. Please help testing and fixing latest issues, get the Beta!

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Posted by Frank Mau on 23 Jun 2008 | PermaLink |

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Comments:

Are the download stats available anywhere? Even a summary (including break-down by platform) would be interesting.

Posted by Joe on June 23, 2008 at 07:14 PM CEST #

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/logstats/?C=N;O=D

Posted by Quest on June 23, 2008 at 08:37 PM CEST #

I'd like to see OOo make more use of Metalinks, which lists mirrors, checksums, & signatures in an XML format used by download apps.

Posted by Anthony Bryan on June 23, 2008 at 11:54 PM CEST #

Anthony : http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/magnet.html

Joe : http://tools.services.openoffice.org/dashboard

Posted by Gouchi on June 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM CEST #

The download link for 3.0 Beta is here:

http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

The link

http://download.openoffice.org/680/

points to Developer Snapshot builds

Posted by Joost Andrae on June 24, 2008 at 11:35 AM CEST #

Is there available a copy of OOo 2.4? 2.41 doesn't work on my system.

Posted by Dennis Tuchler on June 26, 2008 at 07:10 PM CEST #

Dennis,

are you looking for this ?

http://download.openoffice.org/2.4.0/index-nojs.html

Posted by Joost Andrae on June 27, 2008 at 11:45 AM CEST #

Joost Andrae: Thanks for your help. I notice there are three kinds of tar.gz.file for OOo 2.4.0. One ends with deb.tar.gz and another has wJRE in the file name. I'm downloading the first listed one that has neither, just en-US.tar.gz. I hope I'm right.

Posted by Dennis Tuchler on June 29, 2008 at 12:08 AM CEST #