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+There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe:
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+(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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+1.  Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers
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+2.  groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing
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+3.  system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup
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+4.  Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the
+customer's computers
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+5.  a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability