Figures composed by Webmasterpro web analytics show that OpenOffice is making a big spash in German.

The outfit said that it examined the distribution of the most used office packages under German-speaking Internet users. Obviously Microsoft Office was the number one package but more than a quarter of German outfits used OpenOffice. In a press release Webmasterpro said that it wanted to provide a statistically significant analysis of the propagation, in German-speaking Internet users.

It used a new methodology which automatically looked at the office programs of more than a million Internet users. The following table shows the percentage of Internet users to a specific package installed Office had:

- Microsoft Office was installed in 72 per cent of machines.

- OpenOffice.org software including StarOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony, other derivatives was installed in 21.5 per cent.

- WordPerfect Office only managed 2.7 per cent

- Apple iWork was laughed off the list at 1.4 per cent.

Only SoftMaker Office and Koffice were less used at 0.3 per cent each.