Operating System Software used at Sites in January 2009

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 7607 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 2009

Operating System Moving
Avg. %
2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan Jan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
Linux 36.41 1096 1470 2117 2176 2241 2296 2371 2420 2531 2581 2663 2698 2716 2752 2850
Windows Server 2003 32.05 620 1395 2070 2113 2188 2239 2147 2181 2250 2259 2295 2300 2371 2399 2410
unknown 9.47 334 394 628 623 604 631 642 653 624 671 674 706 699 705 728
FreeBSD 6.35 229 341 443 447 447 447 444 446 450 458 457 463 450 453 463
F5 Big-IP 4.27 7 29 116 130 123 122 284 298 303 307 311 349 349 367 371
Windows 2000 3.89 936 426 341 329 328 323 313 305 293 286 273 269 255 244 240
Solaris 8 2.99 181 249 241 243 239 238 235 236 236 221 219 216 200 185 192
Solaris 9/10 2.80 81 112 160 163 174 170 174 184 187 200 203 202 211 222 221
HP-UX 0.85 63 62 58 59 58 60 61 62 62 62 62 61 61 61 59
MacOSX 0.30 17 15 22 17 18 18 19 17 21 20 22 25 25 24 20
Windows Server 2008 0.12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 6 9 10 9 10 19
NetWare 0.11 5 7 9 9 9 10 10 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 7
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.11 5 7 7 7 6 5 7 8 8 6 8 9 8 7 8
NT4/Windows 98 0.06 39 14 6 6 6 7 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Windows XP 0.04 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Solaris 2/7 0.04 23 6 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 5 4 3 2 2
IRIX 0.03 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
NetApp NetCache 0.03 3 4 6 6 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
MacOS 0.01 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Compaq Tru64 0.01 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AS/400 0.01 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 1
OS/2 0.01 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
VM 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
BSD/OS 0.00 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OpenVMS 0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
AIX 0.00 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0