Editing Berkeley Software Design (section)

== Usage in infrastructure ==
Under Rob Kolstad's direction, the company decided to pursue internet infrastructure as their primary customer audience. In the mid 1990s the top-10 websites in the world were almost all using BSD/386 as their BSD source codebase.<ref>personal communications (Robert Kolstad to Donald W . Gillies), November, 1995.</ref>

In the 1995 a survey of datacenter software platforms disclosed that BSDI was the #1 software used in data centers, by Internet servers.  BSDI subsequently released an "Internet Server" version of their software, in contrast to the desktop version, which focused on providing the maximum number of open-source server products in the base distribution.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}