An operating system (OS) is software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is an essential component of the system software in a computer system.
At enlyft, we use sophisticated, patent-pending algorithms to track the use of various Operating Systems products and technologies. We track 58 products in the Operating Systems category, and have found 2,815,775 companies using these products.
Product | Install base (# of companies we found using this product) |
Market Share (%) |
---|---|---|
Linux | 930,812 | 33% |
Canonical Ubuntu | 530,410 | 18% |
CentOS | 247,118 | 8% |
Debian | 212,780 | 7% |
Apple IOS | 160,288 | < 5% |
Windows 7 | 83,315 | < 5% |
Windows XP | 79,382 | < 5% |
SUSE | 54,987 | < 5% |
Mac OS | 52,256 | < 5% |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server | 49,022 | < 5% |
Windows Server 2008 | 46,335 | < 5% |
Windows Server 2003 | 45,285 | < 5% |
Solaris | 36,776 | < 5% |
Windows 10 | 33,417 | < 5% |
Windows Server 2012 | 29,095 | < 5% |
Windows 8 | 27,766 | < 5% |
Microsoft Windows Phone | 27,257 | < 5% |
FreeBSD | 21,681 | < 5% |
HP-UX | 16,621 | < 5% |
Fedora | 15,815 | < 5% |
IBM AIX | 11,144 | < 5% |
IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS) | 10,757 | < 5% |
Windows Server 2000 | 10,347 | < 5% |
IBM Vsam | 8,169 | < 5% |
IBM z/OS Operating System | 7,607 | < 5% |
Oracle Linux | 6,706 | < 5% |
Solaris 10 | 6,686 | < 5% |
Windows CE | 5,092 | < 5% |
Juniper Networks Junos | 4,687 | < 5% |
Solaris 8 | 4,514 | < 5% |
Symbian | 4,250 | < 5% |
HP Open VMS | 3,933 | < 5% |
WindRiver VxWorks | 3,902 | < 5% |
Apple OS X Server | 3,790 | < 5% |
Solaris 9 | 3,502 | < 5% |
QNX | 3,104 | < 5% |
IBM VTAM | 2,760 | < 5% |
SGI IRIX | 2,381 | < 5% |
OpenBSD | 1,564 | < 5% |
HP Tru64 | 1,464 | < 5% |
Solaris 11 | 1,442 | < 5% |
Mesosphere | 1,206 | < 5% |
Blackberry 10 | 1,131 | < 5% |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | 1,035 | < 5% |
WebOS | 804 | < 5% |
Apple OS X Mountain Lion | 761 | < 5% |
Blackberry 5 | 527 | < 5% |
Novell Open Enterprise Server | 368 | < 5% |
Blackberry 6 | 301 | < 5% |
Micrium | 288 | < 5% |
IBM z/VM Operating System | 259 | < 5% |
IBM z/VSE Operating System | 257 | < 5% |
IBM z/TPF Operating System | 200 | < 5% |
ArubaOS | 145 | < 5% |
IBM BDAM | 108 | < 5% |
Unisys OS 2200 | 85 | < 5% |
illumos | 70 | < 5% |
Whamcloud Lustre | 11 | < 5% |