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Sage Research said 96% of the respondents use Windows on their virtual servers and 52% are running Linux.
Virtual machines need an operating system with which to run, and the operating system most frequently being used in the current wave of virtualization is Windows, according to a survey sponsored by Sage Research and published in its recent Sage/CMB market Pulse newsletter. Sage Research is the technology practice branch of custom market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey. Sage surveyed Chadwick Martin Bailey's panel of technology service providers and panel of professional technology users and found 96% of the respondents use Windows on their virtual servers.
Many sites use more than one brand of operating system to run virtual machines. The runner-up was Linux, with 52% of the respondents using the open source operating system. Unix was third at 30% and Solaris fourth at 29%. The figures do not add up to 100% because sites in some cases are using multiple brands of operating system in their virtual machines.
The Mac OS was used by 12% of respondents and NetWare by 6%.
The findings were a broad brush stroke picture of server virtualization. They did not specify how many virtual machines of each kind was running on the virtualized servers or who the virtualization software supplier was.
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'The Mac OS was used by 12% of respondents'
I thought that Mac OS was protected against use on other machines and therefore virtual machines. I can't imagine 12% of respondents have used the hacks.
Am I missing something?
I think this is the host OS they are taking about. In this case, Mac OS happens to be the VM host obviously running on a Mac hardware.