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 1684 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 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 36.66 138 317 487 489 509 522 525 549 547 558 571 591 602 635 640
Linux 33.37 276 333 457 461 483 488 505 507 526 527 537 533 527 547 576
Windows 2000 8.59 269 187 155 160 154 154 154 153 148 138 132 131 124 126 122
unknown 7.55 68 62 108 118 106 108 107 110 94 107 120 125 139 132 124
Solaris 9/10 4.59 24 45 58 65 65 67 71 69 70 73 75 75 78 79 74
FreeBSD 2.80 15 24 43 45 47 46 44 46 48 44 44 43 40 45 47
F5 Big-IP 2.08 1 8 21 22 22 23 23 26 29 30 33 34 38 40 39
HP-UX 1.41 14 12 29 26 27 27 27 26 23 23 21 20 21 21 21
Solaris 8 1.40 49 39 25 22 23 22 22 22 21 23 22 23 22 19 21
AS/400 0.58 4 8 12 11 10 9 9 9 8 10 9 9 9 9 9
NT4/Windows 98 0.29 23 14 7 7 5 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 3
MacOSX 0.22 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 4 3 4 3 3
AIX 0.20 13 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 1
Solaris 2/7 0.13 10 5 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1
Windows Server 2008 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Windows XP 0.02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
IRIX 0.01 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BSD/OS 0.00 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NetWare 0.00 0 0 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