“The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has
been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was
started, according to the company that founded the project,
Sun.“Erwin Tenhumberg, a product marketing manager in Sun’s client
system group, told the OASIS Adoption Forum in London on Tuesday
that OpenOffice.org has been downloaded ‘close to’ 48 million times
in the five years since the project was founded. Although this
number may include duplicate downloads, the average user of
OpenOffice downloads it six times but installs it on nine machines,
according to a survey of 5000 people downloading the application
that was cited by Tenhumberg…”
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