jeudi, avril 21, 2005


April 21, 2005: The one million download challenge of Opera 8: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA


An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland. Opera's communications department could obviously not resist to make such a bold and inarguably over-confident statement public.


Opera's new Web browser, Opera 8, was released Tuesday, and the massive response had Opera's download servers kneeling an hour after the launch. Still, the download numbers of Opera 8 reached 600 000 in the first 48 hours.


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ps : on a de la bande passante a partager il nous reste quand meme un tuyau de 40 MB..... ( http://opera.eurenet.net/ )

 

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