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 5633 sites, with the following distribution of operating system software.

Other views of this data are on separate pages:

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
Windows Server 2003 48.24 399 838 1807 1837 1894 1960 2029 2111 2420 2473 2512 2577 2607 2671 2739
Linux 21.36 431 653 805 831 850 871 912 966 1035 1048 1070 1105 1153 1187 1218
unknown 11.33 228 349 374 414 414 415 407 406 520 546 561 592 613 671 706
Windows 2000 9.26 952 939 511 488 478 477 462 457 465 462 460 454 442 434 422
FreeBSD 3.01 78 110 121 127 130 131 131 135 149 153 152 156 157 161 166
Solaris 9/10 1.76 24 48 67 62 62 60 63 70 69 75 73 79 97 114 121
F5 Big-IP 1.49 0 7 40 36 45 50 48 72 75 79 85 84 95 78 89
Solaris 8 1.38 102 105 66 65 66 66 70 68 68 66 68 67 71 69 67
NT4/Windows 98 0.42 88 60 31 29 27 25 24 23 22 20 19 18 17 17 17
MacOSX 0.37 7 12 15 13 15 15 16 17 20 19 19 16 19 21 20
Solaris 2/7 0.33 64 27 18 18 18 14 17 18 19 18 17 16 16 16 14
NetWare 0.31 22 17 11 12 14 13 11 11 15 14 14 15 15 20 19
AIX 0.18 26 13 11 11 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 7
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.16 4 7 8 8 7 8 8 7 8 8 8 6 9 8 8
HP-UX 0.14 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
AS/400 0.13 15 10 6 6 7 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7
OS/390 0.06 0 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
MacOS 0.04 4 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Windows XP 0.02 0 0 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
BSD/OS 0.00 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OpenVMS 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Compaq Tru64 0.00 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0