Add three slides about users of FreeBSD.

* General (large websites, Netcraft numbers, etc..)
* FreeBSD in the Banking Industry
* FreeBSD used in Internet Infrastructure

This could really use a slide about FreeBSD in the high-end embedded
market.
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<foilgroup>
<foil><title>Who uses FreeBSD?</title>
<para>FreeBSD is used by many of the worlds largest corporations,
and busiest Internet sites.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>Yahoo!, Apache, Sony Japan, Netcraft, Weathernews,
Supervalue.</listitem>
<listitem>Apple chose FreeBSD over Linux as the Unix core for
Mac OS X.</listitem>
<listitem>According to Netcraft, nearly 2.5 million active sites
use FreeBSD as a network server -- about one million more than Red Hat
Linux<footnote><ulink
url="http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=1908"/>
</footnote><footnote><ulink
url="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3367381"/>
</footnote>.</listitem>
<listitem>In the last year alone, about one million new FreeBSD
hosts were counted by Netcraft, an incredible growth rate
despite more media attention for Linux.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</foil>
<foil><title>FreeBSD in the Banking Industry</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>Several of the largest commercial banks in the world
are using FreeBSD in their processing of business to business
transactions.</listitem>
<listitem>Combined, these systems process about 1.5 trillion
U.S. dollars per year and growing. They are using X11,
Apache, jails, perl, and a lot of other free
software.</listitem>
<listitem>Factors that help:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>stability</listitem>
<listitem>source availability for helping understand and fix
problems that occur (sometimes having the source to the
system helps you understand why your application does not
do what you expect..)</listitem>
<listitem>Good performance</listitem>
<listitem>Easy hardware upgrade paths</listitem>
<listitem>PC hardware sometimes is less perfect, but at PC
hardware prices, hot spares are practical.</listitem>
<listitem>The application is spread over many servers.
Need more power in one part? Add more Freebsd boxes.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</foil>
<foil><title>FreeBSD used for Internet Infrastructure</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>BSD has existed since the last 1970's and was the testbed
and reference implementation for TCP/IP.</listitem>
<listitem>The Internet Software Consortium (ISC) uses FreeBSD
exclusively for f-root domain servers (in 21 cities now,
usually with 3 servers per city).</listitem>
<listitem>Modern FreeBSD is extremely refined and
mature.</listitem>
<listitem>FreeBSD consistently placed at the top of the "uptime"
lists produced by Netcraft to measure the stability of the
world's busiest websites.</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</foil>
</foilgroup>