Operating System Software used at Sites in January 2008

This analysis relates to those sites found in the survey where the common name in the certificate matched the hostname, and the certificate's digital signature was not detected as being self-signed.

Responses were obtained from 3364 sites, with the following distribution of operating system software.

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The following pie chart shows the moving average shares over time.

The next graph shows the actual development of shares over time.

Market Shares by Operating System Version to January 2008

Operating System Moving
Avg. %
2005 2006 2007 2008
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Linux 50.18 726 951 1270 1290 1338 1362 1403 1450 1493 1537 1574 1605 1645 1677 1694
Windows Server 2003 25.52 156 278 546 586 623 655 683 732 787 796 821 837 858 864 883
unknown 9.53 125 157 207 242 267 258 257 262 276 271 292 310 309 335 336
Windows 2000 5.52 404 387 187 191 186 180 171 168 173 173 173 168 162 154 152
FreeBSD 2.87 46 61 76 79 75 75 79 88 88 89 91 91 93 94 95
Solaris 9/10 2.53 15 37 57 60 65 71 72 78 82 82 79 79 85 82 86
Solaris 8 1.13 62 56 40 37 37 37 37 33 34 34 31 35 33 34 31
F5 Big-IP 0.46 0 3 10 9 11 9 11 11 15 14 15 15 16 14 18
AIX 0.42 19 22 15 18 18 16 16 15 17 12 11 10 11 11 11
HP-UX 0.40 13 15 14 14 14 13 13 13 14 13 13 13 11 11 11
MacOSX 0.36 3 3 5 6 10 9 10 10 11 12 12 13 13 11 12
AS/400 0.30 3 6 6 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 10 9 11 12
NetWare 0.29 5 7 10 10 10 11 11 11 10 10 9 9 9 7 8
NT4/Windows 98 0.19 39 20 8 8 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 4
Solaris 2/7 0.10 22 9 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
SCO UNIX 0.06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 3 3
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.06 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
IRIX 0.04 5 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
OpenVMS 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
BSD/OS 0.01 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MacOS 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
NetApp NetCache 0.01 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Compaq Tru64 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0