There are several ways that people might want to use Tahoe:

(This Wiki page was inspired by the following discussion on the tahoe-dev list: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2007-June/000022.html )

1.  Allmydata, Inc. operating a storage grid on corporately owned servers

2.  groups of friends who want to share backup and file-sharing

3.  system administrators who want to experiment with it for backup

4.  Allmydata, Inc. and its customers operating a storage grid including the
customer's computers

5.  a large, diverse ecosystem of selfish or mutually suspicious people and organizations who want a storage service with extremely high reliability and availability