(TheForceField.net ) October 13, 2008 — The OpenOffice.org official web site went down during the launch of OpenOffice.org 3.0 this morning. A download page was published around noon in lieu of the home page with the brief message "Apologies – our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are
trying to come up with a solution".
Initially there was no official word as to the cause of the outage, however an source at Sun was quoted as saying that the outage was due to a "large
number of http requests bombarding the site". The high number of requests is believed to be attributed to a sudden increase in traffic in response to the official release of OpenOffice.org 3.0.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the latest release of the open source office suite originally developed by Sun Microsystems. This release is considered by many to be the turning point in which OpenOffice.org becomes a true, viable competitor to Microsoft Office.
