Downloaders declare open season on OpenOffice 3.0 servers
Flattened by popular demand: Servers hosting the final version of OpenOffice 3.0, released yesterday, have been struggling to keep up with would-be downloaders.
The much-anticipated final 3.0 version of the open-source productivity suite is now available in nine languages... if you can get a connection. Practically speaking, interested parties are hitting a bare-bones download page on which the developers explain that they're coping with, as the page says, "the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org."
Our grab for the OOo 3.0 final for Mac was, happily for us, successful on the first try, as was our attempt to download the latest packages for Windows and the two Linux versions.
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| A report from the OpenOffice.org Web server shows, even with this many links, it's hard to find an open server. |
Versions 3.0.0 of the software are available for Windows, Linux RPM, and Linux DEB in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Swedish; for Solaris x86 in English, German, Russian and Swedish; for Solaris SPARC in English; for Mac OSX Intel in Danish, English, German, Italian and Swedish; and for Mac OS X PPC in Swedish only.