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 5648 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
Windows Server 2003 37.83 472 1048 1608 1645 1721 1792 1814 1872 1944 1977 2026 2061 2082 2118 2120
Linux 36.71 858 1084 1574 1618 1633 1675 1744 1777 1848 1875 1914 1945 1989 2069 2146
unknown 8.55 188 230 354 388 362 374 395 419 408 430 446 452 480 486 513
Windows 2000 7.09 823 530 435 432 430 414 399 398 371 364 361 356 349 342 335
F5 Big-IP 3.18 2 60 113 103 125 137 143 139 158 148 158 180 188 195 193
FreeBSD 1.88 45 56 76 83 90 85 85 92 100 100 102 104 102 104 103
Solaris 8 1.64 140 113 102 100 97 99 96 94 96 91 84 83 81 74 75
Solaris 9/10 1.44 25 42 70 75 80 75 82 81 74 72 70 71 79 80 78
NT4/Windows 98 0.36 62 37 27 24 24 24 23 21 18 18 17 18 15 15 16
AS/400 0.29 24 21 19 18 18 16 16 17 15 14 15 14 14 14 14
NetWare 0.25 2 3 8 8 12 11 12 13 14 13 14 14 14 14 14
MacOSX 0.17 7 9 6 6 5 6 7 7 7 8 10 12 11 10 9
HP-UX 0.13 17 13 12 11 11 10 9 9 9 9 6 5 4 5 5
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.12 1 8 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 6 7 6 6 6 7
AIX 0.10 20 16 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 7 7 7
Solaris 2/7 0.09 16 3 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 5 4 5
Windows XP 0.03 0 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1
MacOS 0.03 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Windows Server 2008 0.03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 3
IRIX 0.02 31 30 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Compaq Tru64 0.02 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
NetApp NetCache 0.01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
BSD/OS 0.00 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0