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1.79 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Users</font></h2>
17: <hr>
1.104 david 18: The term "users" has several connotations. <em>End users</em> often
1.47 ian 19: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
20: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
21: is with one of our
22: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
23: <p>
24: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56 louis 25: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
1.65 jufi 26: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 27: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 28: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
29: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
30: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
31: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
32: security features hard to resist.
1.113 mbalmer 33: Even <a href="#gov">governments</a> from different countries pick OpenBSD
1.114 ! ian 34: for securing their vital informational infrastructure.
1.56 louis 35: <p>
1.38 louis 36:
37: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
38: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
39: <br><br>
40:
41: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
42: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
43: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 44: <hr>
45:
1.112 ian 46: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="gov">Governments</a></font></h2>
47: <ul>
48: <li><a href="http://www.moptt.cl/">Ministerio de
49: Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Chile</a><br>
50: The Public Construction Ministry of the Republic of Chile runs
51: a national WAN and use OpenBSD for their firewalls and link loadbalancers,
52: based on
53: pf.
54: They have been using OpenBSD since the year 2001, and selected the OS
55: so they could sleep well at night without fear of being hacked.
56: <p>
57:
58: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
59: México</a><br>
60: This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its
61: network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN
62: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.
63: <p>
64:
65:
66: </ul>
67:
1.79 jufi 68: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
69: <ul>
1.27 ian 70:
1.95 millert 71: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
72: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
73: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
74: ambulatories. OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
75: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
76: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
77: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94 millert 78: <p>
79:
1.96 millert 80: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
81: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
82: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
83: <p>
84:
1.97 millert 85: <li><a href="http://elm.eu.org/">ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany</a><br>
86: The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses
87: OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers.
88: <p>
89:
1.104 david 90: <li><a href="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</a><br>
91: ENEP Iztacala is one of <a href="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</a>'s peripheral
1.58 louis 92: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
93: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
94: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
95: <br>
96: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
97: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
98: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
99: <br>
1.65 jufi 100: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 101: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
102: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
1.109 grunk 103: mirror.
1.58 louis 104: <br>
105: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
106: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
107: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
108: <br>
109: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
110: <p>
111:
1.94 millert 112: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
113: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
114: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
115: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
116: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
117: <p>
118:
1.66 jufi 119: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
120: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
121: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
122: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
123: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
124: <p>
125:
1.60 louis 126: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
127: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
128: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
129: <p>
130:
1.94 millert 131: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
132: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
133: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
134: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
135: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
136: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
137: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
138: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
139: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
140: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
141: <p>
142:
1.56 louis 143: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
144: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
145: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
146: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
147: <p>
1.43 deraadt 148:
1.56 louis 149: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
150: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
151: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
152: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
153: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
154: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
155: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
156: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 157: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 158: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
159: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
160: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
161:
1.96 millert 162: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
163: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
164: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
165: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
166: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
167: <p>
168:
1.56 louis 169: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
170: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
171: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
172: for many intensive research projects.
173: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
174: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
175: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
176: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
177: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
178: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
179: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
180: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
181: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
182: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
183: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
184: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
185: their primary operating system. <p>
186:
187: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
188: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
189: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
190: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
191: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 192:
1.56 louis 193: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
194: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
195: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 196: <p>
197:
1.82 millert 198: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
199: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
200: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
201: supports more than 1,000 students.
202: <p>
203:
1.92 millert 204: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 205: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 206: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 207: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 208: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
209: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 210: <p>
211:
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1.56 louis 213:
1.79 jufi 214: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 215:
1.79 jufi 216: <ul>
1.56 louis 217: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
218: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
219: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 220:
1.43 deraadt 221: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
222: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 223: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 224: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 225:
1.107 nick 226: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
227: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
228: for infrastructure purposes.
229: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of it's flagship
230: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
231:
1.43 deraadt 232: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
233: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
234: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 235: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 236: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
237: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 238: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 239:
1.106 saad 240: <li><a href="http://www.genua.de">GeNUA mbH</a><br>
1.108 markus 241: GeNUA, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 242: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
243:
1.56 louis 244: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
245: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
246: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
247: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
248: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
249: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
250: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
251: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
252: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
253: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
254: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 255:
1.94 millert 256: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
257: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
258: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 259: <p>
260:
1.94 millert 261: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
262: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 263: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
264: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 265:
1.56 louis 266: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
267: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
268: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
269: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
270: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
271: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 272:
1.56 louis 273: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
274: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
275: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 276:
1.94 millert 277: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 278: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.94 millert 279: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed,
280: stability, and security.<p>
281:
1.78 millert 282: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
283: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
284: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
285: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
286: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
287: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 288:
1.56 louis 289: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
290: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 291: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 292: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
293: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
294: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
295: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
296: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
297: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
298: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 299: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
300:
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1.1 jkatz 302:
1.79 jufi 303: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 304: <p>
305: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
306: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
307: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
308: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 309: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 310:
1.71 ian 311: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 312: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 313: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 314: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
315: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
316: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
317: <p>
318:
1.94 millert 319: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
320: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
321: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
322: behind the scenes security functions.
323: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
324: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
325: security services."
326: <p>
327:
1.110 grunk 328: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
329: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
330: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
331: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
332: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
333: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
334: and very consistent, we love it.
335: <p>
336:
1.56 louis 337: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
338: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
339: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
340: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 341: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 342: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
343: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 344: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
345: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
346: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
347: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
348: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
349: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
350: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
351: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
352: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 353: <p>
354:
355: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
356: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
357: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
358: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
359: sites such as
360: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
361: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
362: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 363:
1.80 jufi 364: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 365: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
366: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
367:
1.94 millert 368: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
369: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
370: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
371: routers.
372: <p>
373:
1.80 jufi 374: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 375: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 376: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
377: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
378: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 379: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 380:
1.56 louis 381: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
382: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
383: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
384: <p>
1.25 angelos 385:
1.56 louis 386: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
387: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 388: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 389: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
390: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
391: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
392: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
393: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 394: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
395: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 396: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 397:
1.63 louis 398: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
399: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
400: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
401: <p>
402:
1.43 deraadt 403: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 404: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 405: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 406: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
407: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
408: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
409: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 410: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
411: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 412: <p>
1.34 deraadt 413:
1.94 millert 414: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
415: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
416: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
417: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
418: to offer services.
419: <p>
420:
421: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
422: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
423: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
424: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
425: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
426: pharmaceutical firm.
427: <p>
428:
1.56 louis 429: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
430: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
431: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
432: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
433: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
434: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
435: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
436: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
437: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
438:
1.111 grunk 439: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
440: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
441: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
442: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
443: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
444: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
445: for rent.<br>
446: M5 has many customers who use these
447: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
448: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
449: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
450: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
451: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
452:
1.105 ian 453: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
454: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
455: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
456: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
457: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
458: from government and private sector.
459: <p>
460:
1.94 millert 461: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
462: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
463: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
464: <p>
465:
1.80 jufi 466: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 467: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
468: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
469: sites.<p>
470:
471: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
472: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
473: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
474: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
475: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
476: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
477: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
478: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
479:
480: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
481: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
482: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
483: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
484: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
485: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
486: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
487: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
488: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
489: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
490: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
491:
1.61 louis 492: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
493: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
494: <p>
495:
1.101 jose 496: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
497: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
498: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
499: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
500: <p>
501:
1.76 millert 502: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
503: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
504: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
505: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
506: keystone in our security strategy."
507: <p>
508:
1.94 millert 509: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
510: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
511: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
512: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
513: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 514: <p>
515:
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