Opera 8 surpasses 600,000 downloads in 48 hours.

[tribalsun]

Opera 8 surpasses 600,000 downloads.

"When download numbers reached 120 per second one hour after the release, our servers had serious problems dealing with all the requests. We had prepared for heavy traffic, but this exceeded our wildest dreams."

 

[Simon]

yea i read that. it because it so good!

 

[TheMajor]

Yes. Here's a related Press Release:
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/21/

 

[office politics]

heh, reminds me of the gnomedex conference i went to last year. one speaker said there should be slashdot insurance, reffering to all the traffic that the site would get.

 

[ZeroX]

i'm glad to see it doing so well.

it deserves it.

 

[TheMajor]

www.opera.com/swim