Launch of Nokia's Ovi Store marred by poor performance

Nokia's worldwide launch of its much touted Ovi Store proved to be an "utter disaster,"  in the words of TechCrunch's Robin Wauters. While users who entered through the Ovi Store device client encountered no issues, it appears that web users were experiencing a intermittent or extremely slow response. For the uninitiated, the Ovi Store is Nokia's direct response to Apple's App Store, serving as a central content store for applications that can run on Nokia phones.

It seems that a large spike in traffic resulted in performance issues. An apology posted to the company's Ovi Blog confirmed the situation: "We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused Ovi Store users." According to Nokia, it was able to make "intermittent performance improvements" by adding extra servers. Hopefully, everything will run smoothly within a couple of days.

Nokia is not the only organization to underestimate web demand. Microsoft saw its download pages at MSDN and TechNet crash as folks worldwide scrambled to download the Windows 7 release candidate when it was released earlier this month.

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