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: