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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<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>
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