One of our partners recently asked me on what platforms do we usually see MySQL installed out there...
The last 5 years I gave the answer: Typically it is 80% Linux, 10% Windows, 5% Solaris and 5% all others. But this was only the picture of my limited view and I was not sure how objective this was.
This time I really wanted to know it and so I collected the information of about 570 MySQL installations of customers.
The following numbers came out:
Operating System
OS cnt % Mac OSX 3 0.5% FreeBSD 5 0.9% Windows 60 10.5% Solaris Sparc 3 0.5% Solaris x86 7 1.2% Debian Linux 110 19.2% Red Hat Linux 196 34.1% other Linux 179 31.2% SuSE Linux 7 1.2% AIX 3 0.5% Unknown 1 0.2% 574 100.0%