| 1 | There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe: |
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| 3 | (This Wiki page was inspired by the following discussion on the tahoe-dev list: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html ) |
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| 5 | 1. Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers |
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| 7 | 2. groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing |
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| 9 | 3. system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup |
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| 11 | 4. Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the |
| 12 | customer's computers |
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| 14 | 5. a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability |