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 3333 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 53.44 571 835 1154 1184 1220 1251 1292 1348 1448 1478 1549 1602 1669 1745 1791
FreeBSD 17.76 153 230 371 379 402 419 441 452 482 497 521 547 565 574 589
Windows Server 2003 15.71 56 254 352 362 383 394 419 433 442 444 457 473 487 486 505
unknown 7.03 56 109 186 190 187 193 195 211 173 176 187 186 208 226 242
F5 Big-IP 1.85 0 1 29 35 39 40 42 44 45 50 53 59 62 66 70
Solaris 9/10 1.59 10 26 40 38 39 38 38 35 39 41 46 46 45 55 55
Windows 2000 1.08 96 50 36 37 31 32 31 31 27 26 28 27 29 34 31
Solaris 8 0.36 20 22 10 12 9 12 12 10 11 12 10 9 9 9 9
NetWare 0.32 0 7 5 6 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9
Solaris 2/7 0.22 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 7
Windows Server 2008 0.18 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 4 6 3 5 8 12
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.17 5 2 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 4 5 5 6
HP-UX 0.10 1 0 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
AIX 0.07 2 4 4 5 3 3 4 3 3 4 0 1 1 1 1
MacOSX 0.06 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 2
Windows XP 0.03 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AS/400 0.02 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
BSD/OS 0.01 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NT4/Windows 98 0.01 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
IRIX 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0