April Internet Operating System Count results available | Linux Today

April Internet Operating System Count results available

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 23, 1999

Thanks to Stan Klimas for
this information.

Linux, Apple, Novell gaining market share, Microsoft Windows
products losing.

From: <ioscount@goldfish.cube.net>

Hi,

I’m pleased to tell you that the April Internet Operating System
Count is available since about 10 minutes at http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount.
This time a total of 1.465.124 hosts were queried for their
operating system.

Summary results:

 Rank       Operating System    01/99  %recog      04/99   %recog  +/-%
 ---------------------------  -------  ------    -------  -------  ----
  1.(   )              Linux   287093    28.5     399748     31.3  +2.8
  2.(   )   Windows 95/98/NT   245184    24.4     310162     24.3  -0.1
  3.(   )      Solaris/SunOS   178350    17.7     213304     16.7  -1.0
  4.(   )         BSD Family   150961    15.0     186385     14.6  -0.4
  5.(   )               IRIX    52941     5.3      58112      4.6  -0.7
  6.( 7.)          Mac/Apple    16170     1.6      26548      2.1  +0.5
  7.( 6.)                AIX    17362     1.7      18427      1.4  -0.3
  8.( 9.)               HPUX    10416     1.0      11760      0.9  -0.1
  9.( 8.) Reliant Unix/Sinix    12848     1.3      10616      0.8  -0.5
 10.(12.)     Novell Netware     3656     0.4       5982      0.5  +0.1
 11.(10.)       Digital Unix     5016     0.5       5186      0.4  -0.1
 12.(11.)           SCO Unix     3787     0.4       4021      0.3  -0.1
                 -----------    -----   -----    -------    -----
                 ++checksums   983784    97.8    1250250     97.9 

For a detailed view of the results listed for each domain
queried and the list of top operating system among domains please
check out the Internet Operating Counter at http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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