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