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 7241 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 51.23 838 1807 2739 2831 3013 3125 3188 3293 3377 3403 3498 3565 3622 3690 3707
Linux 22.29 653 805 1218 1264 1300 1331 1364 1398 1463 1475 1510 1545 1575 1597 1640
unknown 12.16 349 374 706 739 685 721 746 770 769 801 784 829 850 877 935
Windows 2000 5.32 939 511 422 412 414 398 388 374 360 353 352 346 332 326 316
FreeBSD 2.54 110 121 166 162 164 163 172 179 177 178 180 167 171 172 168
Solaris 9/10 2.28 48 67 121 132 136 137 147 154 153 155 159 163 164 165 163
F5 Big-IP 1.57 7 40 89 92 83 89 92 96 107 101 112 102 108 117 118
Solaris 8 0.79 105 66 67 66 62 64 64 61 55 51 49 49 47 48 47
Windows Server 2008 0.34 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 7 8 12 13 23 26 33 50
MacOSX 0.33 12 15 20 19 23 24 22 23 19 20 18 22 24 23 24
NT4/Windows 98 0.22 60 31 17 17 17 17 16 16 14 14 14 13 13 13 13
NetWare 0.21 17 11 19 21 19 18 16 15 14 15 15 14 15 12 12
Solaris 2/7 0.17 27 18 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 10 10 11 10 10
AIX 0.16 13 11 7 7 7 8 7 6 10 10 11 12 13 12 12
NetBSD/OpenBSD 0.16 7 8 8 9 9 8 10 10 12 14 12 12 11 9 10
HP-UX 0.09 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6
AS/400 0.06 10 6 7 5 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 4
OS/390 0.05 0 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Windows XP 0.04 0 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 2 3 3
MacOS 0.01 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Compaq Tru64 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0