[plug] Operating systems on the Internet

[Jason :)]

Those are only on Web servers. Results for normal client/workstation 
computers would be very different..... (Unix 60% doesn't happen on 
client computers)

Jason


Anthony Jones wrote:

> Netcraft do a few surveys...
> 
> http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone give me a pointer to a breakdown of host computers on the
>> Internet, by operating system?
>> 
>> I am involved in a small mathematical modelling project, and, we are
>> investigating modelling the propagation of viruses on the Internet. From
>> what I understand, viruses and worms, each tend to be operating system
>> dependent, so the propagation and infection, would, I assume, depend on
>> the operating system that they encounter.
>> 
>> I have an estimate of 200 million host computers on the Internet, for
>> January 2001, and, a qualified estimate of the breakdown of host
>> computers on the Internet, by operating system, would be also useful, in
>> considering the model.
>> 
>> Thanks in anticipation.
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Bret Busby
>> 
>> ......................................
>> "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the
>> answer means."
>>  - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>>  - Douglas Adams, 1988
>> ......................................
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