OpenOffice download crashes web site
OPENORIFICE'S web site has crashed under the weight of demand for the new Openoffice 3.
A note was posted yesterday saying that the organisations web site was struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of Openoffice.org.
Apparently technical teams are trying to “come up with a solution”. Normally our technical team drinks solutions.
The open sauce site is not the only place you can pick up Version 3 so all is well. It has been spotted at CNets download site too.
Openoffice.org 3.0 does word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, drawing, and databases in an open saucey sort of way. The new version can read Microsoft Office 2007 file formats including DOCX (Word), XLSX (Excel), and PPTX (PowerPoint). It can convert them into Office 2003 file formats.
While the whole kit and kaboodle is 140MB in size it can take years to download from the world wide wibble. It is better to use Bittorrent. µ
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.. for the link to the torrent ;)
My ISP has a repository of all the major open source distros, applications and is also a Sourceforge mirror. Best of all is that downloads from the repository don't count against my monthly quota. Thanks, chaps, for an enlightened policy.
Are you still on dialup or something?

Just downloaded it in 4 minutes. Not too much time to get something really cool means I don't have to pirate M$'s bull****, bloated office suite just to open documents which are suppossed to be in an "open" format?

Seriously, surely this website should be promoting ooo heavily so that it screws Volish folk over?
http://findfiles.com/ --> open office 2.41 is still better than 3.0. This is not Microsoft, but I wonder why people not rush into 3.0? Waiting Open Office 3.0 Service Pack 1 =)).
It amazes me that in this day and age, a site like OOO fails to utilise THE BEST *RELEASE* protocol ever to come into existance.

All you need is a popular file, a web link, a tracker, one half decent server to kickstart it and voila! 
Within hours your total bandwith pool rivals that of most small datacentres and most of it is free!

The bittorrent protocol should be added into the very core of an OS' network stack. 
It should sit along side FTP, ARP and all the other basic commands of the 70's.
Time to move on and accept that things improve and this is a vast improvement on any of the older transfer protocols particularly as the web marches on.
@Hok, if you have been using OO.o then there's no way u can say that 2.4.1 is better than 3. A lots more features are introduced in 3 that make things work in a more effective and convenient way.

I guess I'll stick with the RC version for a while until the frenzy cool down
Now that practically all programs have auto update's or automatically check for updates online, you figure they would expect such high volumes.