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 <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.  <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
 <p>  <p>
 Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",  Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
 and that is the subject of the rest of this page.  and that is the subject of the rest of this page.  These <a
 These companies and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit  href="#com">companies</a> and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
 and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,  and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
 intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers. University  intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
 researchers and IT department developers often have similar  <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
 security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.<p>  have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
   Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
   security features hard to resist.
   <p>
   
 If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to  If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
 <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .  <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
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 "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>  "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
 <hr>  <hr>
   
   <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
 <dl>  <dl>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a><br>
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 Amnesty International is using OpenBSD for network firewalls and for  Amnesty International is using OpenBSD for network firewalls and for
 Virtual Private Networks (IPSec) between its sections around the world.<p>  Virtual Private Networks (IPSec) between its sections around the world.<p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>  <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
 This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed  The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
 intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing  staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
 applications.  Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the  The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
 Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed  <p>
 military and government agency locations.<p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>  
 This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls  
 and network testing systems.<p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,  <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
 M&eacute;xico</a><br>  M&eacute;xico</a><br>
 El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger  El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
 sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet,dando  sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
 resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por  resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
 usuarios internos y externos.<br>  usuarios internos y externos.<br>
 <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its  <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
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 provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>  provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
 <p>  <p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
   uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
   servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
   scanning, and incident response.  OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
   for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
   behind which all the University's new administrative systems
   reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
   HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
   gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
   approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
   secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
   20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
   
 This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and  <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
 secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and  Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
 several firewalls.  They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to  The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
 their business DSL customers.  for many intensive research projects.
   OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
   <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
   contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
   applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
   containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
   OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
   <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
   program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
   OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
   local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
   privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
   addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
   their primary operating system. <p>
   
   <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
   This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
   and capacity planning.  They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
   via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
   processing each month.<p>
   
   <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
   The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
   gateways to the Internet.
 <p>  <p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>  </dl>
   
 This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services  <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
 including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its  
 data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam.  Even larger web  
 sites such as <a href="http://www.mitsubishicars.com">mitsubishicars.com</a>,  
 <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,  
 <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no  
 challenge for OpenBSD.<p>  
   
   <dl>
   <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
   This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
   and network testing systems.<p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
 The gigabit ethernet  The gigabit ethernet
 hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging  hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
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 products. &quot;The robustness, portability and commitment to security  products. &quot;The robustness, portability and commitment to security
 of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,  of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
 provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high  provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
 availability are major concerns&quot; , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>  availability are major concerns&quot;, says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
 qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The  A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
 website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other  Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
 technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a  a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client.  "We are
 <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>  delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
 using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript  attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
 and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs  to use OpenBSD in many future projects.  We believe strongly that
 just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>  open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
   levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
   almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
   committed to."<p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
 IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test  This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
 servers.  The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,  intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
 VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I  applications.  Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
 sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.  Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
 "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure  military and government agency locations.<p>
 the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.  
 OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating  
 systems.  Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>  
 This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring  
 and capacity planning.  They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces  
 via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for  
 processing each month.<p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br> An ISP in Bend,  
 Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware, for routing,  
 firewalling, IPSec/VPN, <A  
 HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth  
 limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion  
 detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.  
 One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast  
 ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for  
 co-location customers and business park tenants.<P>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
 This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended  This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
 system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed  system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
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 to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and  to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
 has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>  has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
 This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,  This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
 DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of  gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
 Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and  
 PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming  
 on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD  
 <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>  
 and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,  
 and also provides an anonymous CVS repository  
 (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of  
 disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>  
   
 <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>  <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
   Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
   TIMEngine &#153;.  This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
   service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
   via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
   management capabilities.  Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
   of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
   servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
   monitoring/IDS and production web servers.  OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
   used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
   rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
   <p>
   
 is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for  </dl>
 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50  
 sites.<p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">The Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>  <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
 This laboratory at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis  <p>
 for many intensive research projects.  One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
 OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing  from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
 <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>  ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
 contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real  many, if not most, of their services.
 applications. Plans are underway to issue cards  <dl>
 containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.  
 OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the  
 <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>  
 program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an  
 OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the  
 local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with  
 privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In  
 addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as  
 their primary operating system. <p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
 uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos  BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
 servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security  secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
 scanning, and incident response.  OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used  primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
 for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets  LDAP Authentification Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
 behind which all the University's new administrative systems  Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
 reside. OpenBSD is used for <A  <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
 HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating  and maxfiles, but it runs great on hardware that's not so speedy. We are using
 gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in  AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have some
 approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help  internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all sorts of
 secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two  other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD, especially our
 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>  firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed source software, but
   we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's behaviour under high load,
   especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't compare to the Linux we used before
   - Linux went extremely slow, while OpenBSD doesn't even care (same
   hardware!)"</i>.
   <p>
   
   <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
   This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
   including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
   data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam.  Even larger web
   sites such as
   <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
   <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
   challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
   
 <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>  <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
 This internet service provider is running almost completely on  This internet service provider is running almost completely on
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 OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are  OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
 running OpenBSD/i386.<p>  running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
 A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in  Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
 Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct  website hosting, and domain name hosting.
 a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client.  "We are  <p>
 delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active  
 attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend  
 to use OpenBSD in many future projects.  We believe strongly that  
 open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high  
 levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software  
 almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is  
 committed to."<p>  
   
 <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
 This maker of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their  An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
 gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>  for routing, firewalling, IPSec/VPN, <A
   HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
   limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
   detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
   One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
   ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
   co-location customers and business park tenants.<P>
   
 <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>  <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
 This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other  This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
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 problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."  problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
 <p>  <p>
   
 <li>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic<br>  <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
 The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to  In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
 staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.  on several of their own and their customers' machines.
 The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.  <p>
   
   <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
   IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
   servers.  The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
   VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
   sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
   "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
   the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
   OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
   systems.  Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
   
   <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
   is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
   100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
   sites.<p>
   
   <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
   qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
   website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
   technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
   <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
   using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
   and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
   just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
   
   <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
   This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
   DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
   Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
   PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
   on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
   <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
   and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
   and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
   (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
   disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
   
   <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
   This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
   secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
   several firewalls.  They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
   their business DSL customers.
 <p>  <p>
   
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