Research firm Netcraft is out with its latest Linux statistics, which said Red Hat (Quote, Chart) is the dominant Linux distribution in the hosting industry.

The results come from Netcraft's hosting provider switching analysis. Netcraft said it showed that Red Hat holds 49.8 percent market share, which is actually down by 1 percent from its January survey. At that time, it counted Red Hat as holding 50.8 percent of the hosting market.

Cobalt, the back-up server system recently open-sourced by Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart), held the number two spot in Netcraft's numbers with a 20.8 percent market share, which is down about a half percent from six months ago.

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