Dienstag Juni 03, 2008
Millions of copies of OpenOffice.org distributed by Asustek
I just read this article, and found the following statement particularly interesting:
"The company, which had previously estimated that it would sell 5 million Eee PCs this year, forecasts low-cost PC sales are set to hit 20-30 million units globally in 2009, Asustek's Chief Executive Jerry Shen told reporters."
Considering that the Eee PCs ship with either OpenOffice.org, StarOffice or StarSuite, these are great news! Last month there were close to 7 Million downloads of OpenOffice.org (not counting Linux distros, magazine CDs, etc.), but having major hardware vendors like Asustek shipping Millions of laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed is definitely even more helpful from an OpenOffice.org market share and ODF adoption point of view.
( Jun 03 2008, 11:45:05 AM CEST )
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