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 4424 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 35.14 598 858 1084 1110 1154 1190 1236 1294 1367 1421 1440 1477 1510 1555 1574
Windows Server 2003 34.75 196 472 1048 1074 1116 1161 1202 1269 1348 1399 1446 1455 1503 1544 1608
Windows 2000 11.67 777 823 530 511 502 491 486 478 482 457 460 464 447 448 435
unknown 7.50 135 188 230 260 272 264 274 258 279 280 293 299 313 345 354
Solaris 8 2.69 117 140 113 114 114 113 111 112 113 108 108 111 104 105 102
F5 Big-IP 2.29 0 2 60 59 56 67 70 80 82 99 102 101 102 102 113
FreeBSD 1.80 35 45 56 57 62 62 64 67 71 80 84 78 72 77 76
Solaris 9/10 1.41 12 25 42 42 39 45 44 48 51 54 58 57 60 64 70
NT4/Windows 98 0.78 86 62 37 36 39 34 36 36 32 31 32 29 27 27 27
AS/400 0.49 10 24 21 21 21 21 21 21 20 21 21 21 17 18 19
HP-UX 0.36 20 17 13 14 14 14 14 16 16 16 17 17 17 12 12
IRIX 0.30 32 31 30 30 30 30 29 29 28 16 6 3 3 3 3
MacOSX 0.18 5 7 9 9 9 9 8 7 8 7 8 8 6 6 6
AIX 0.16 29 20 16 16 15 10 10 9 3 4 4 5 5 4 4
NetWare 0.15 4 2 3 3 2 5 5 6 6 5 6 6 8 7 8
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.14 2 1 8 8 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6
Solaris 2/7 0.11 26 16 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 4
Windows XP 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Compaq Tru64 0.03 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
MacOS 0.02 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
BSD/OS 0.01 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SCO UNIX 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0