OpenOffice.org Looking at 100 Million Downloads

An official announcement is hard to find, but Sean Coffey of Sun Microsystems says OpenOffice.org has crossed the 100 million-download mark:

As of Aug. 25, OpenOffice.org had counted up 98 million downloads. That was the last update provided by OpenOffice on its stats page. Complete stats are difficult to track, OpenOffice.org says, but its growth has been "continued as massive."

OpenOffice is an open source version of Star Office, which Sun Microsystems bought in 1999. It even has its own derivatives, including , which used to be known as OpenOffice Premium. Of all those downloads, it's hard to say exactly how many are active users.