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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:
1.115 ! ian 71: <li><a href="http://www.lockss.org">The LOCKSS Program</a> ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"),
! 72: Stanford University Libraries, uses a <a
! 73: href="http://lockss.stanford.edu/david1.htm">network appliance</a>
! 74: based on a modified version of OpenBSD that boots and runs from CD.
! 75: Over 100 of these appliances are running in libraries around the world.
! 76: They collect and preserve materials published on the web,
! 77: including academic journals, theses and dissertations, cultural
! 78: collections and government documents.
! 79: <p>
! 80:
1.95 millert 81: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
82: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
83: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
84: ambulatories. OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
85: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
86: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
87: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94 millert 88: <p>
89:
1.96 millert 90: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
91: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
92: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
93: <p>
94:
1.97 millert 95: <li><a href="http://elm.eu.org/">ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany</a><br>
96: The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses
97: OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers.
98: <p>
99:
1.104 david 100: <li><a href="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</a><br>
101: ENEP Iztacala is one of <a href="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</a>'s peripheral
1.58 louis 102: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
103: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
104: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
105: <br>
106: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
107: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
108: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
109: <br>
1.65 jufi 110: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 111: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
112: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
1.109 grunk 113: mirror.
1.58 louis 114: <br>
115: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
116: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
117: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
118: <br>
119: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
120: <p>
121:
1.94 millert 122: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
123: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
124: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
125: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
126: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
127: <p>
128:
1.66 jufi 129: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
130: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
131: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
132: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
133: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
134: <p>
135:
1.60 louis 136: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
137: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
138: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
139: <p>
140:
1.94 millert 141: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
142: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
143: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
144: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
145: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
146: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
147: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
148: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
149: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
150: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
151: <p>
152:
1.56 louis 153: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
154: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
155: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
156: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
157: <p>
1.43 deraadt 158:
1.56 louis 159: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
160: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
161: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
162: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
163: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
164: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
165: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
166: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 167: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 168: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
169: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
170: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
171:
1.96 millert 172: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
173: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
174: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
175: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
176: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
177: <p>
178:
1.56 louis 179: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
180: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
181: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
182: for many intensive research projects.
183: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
184: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
185: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
186: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
187: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
188: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
189: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
190: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
191: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
192: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
193: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
194: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
195: their primary operating system. <p>
196:
197: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
198: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
199: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
200: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
201: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 202:
1.56 louis 203: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
204: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
205: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 206: <p>
207:
1.82 millert 208: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
209: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
210: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
211: supports more than 1,000 students.
212: <p>
213:
1.92 millert 214: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 215: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 216: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 217: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 218: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
219: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 220: <p>
221:
1.79 jufi 222: </ul>
1.56 louis 223:
1.79 jufi 224: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 225:
1.79 jufi 226: <ul>
1.56 louis 227: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
228: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
229: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 230:
1.43 deraadt 231: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
232: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 233: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 234: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 235:
1.107 nick 236: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
237: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
238: for infrastructure purposes.
239: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of it's flagship
240: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
241:
1.43 deraadt 242: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
243: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
244: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 245: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 246: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
247: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 248: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 249:
1.106 saad 250: <li><a href="http://www.genua.de">GeNUA mbH</a><br>
1.108 markus 251: GeNUA, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 252: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
253:
1.56 louis 254: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
255: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
256: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
257: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
258: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
259: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
260: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
261: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
262: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
263: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
264: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 265:
1.94 millert 266: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
267: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
268: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 269: <p>
270:
1.94 millert 271: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
272: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 273: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
274: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 275:
1.56 louis 276: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
277: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
278: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
279: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
280: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
281: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 282:
1.56 louis 283: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
284: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
285: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 286:
1.94 millert 287: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 288: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.94 millert 289: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed,
290: stability, and security.<p>
291:
1.78 millert 292: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
293: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
294: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
295: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
296: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
297: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 298:
1.56 louis 299: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
300: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 301: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 302: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
303: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
304: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
305: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
306: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
307: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
308: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 309: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
310:
1.79 jufi 311: </ul>
1.1 jkatz 312:
1.79 jufi 313: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 314: <p>
315: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
316: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
317: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
318: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 319: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 320:
1.71 ian 321: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 322: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 323: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 324: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
325: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
326: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
327: <p>
328:
1.94 millert 329: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
330: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
331: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
332: behind the scenes security functions.
333: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
334: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
335: security services."
336: <p>
337:
1.110 grunk 338: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
339: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
340: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
341: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
342: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
343: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
344: and very consistent, we love it.
345: <p>
346:
1.56 louis 347: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
348: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
349: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
350: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 351: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 352: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
353: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 354: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
355: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
356: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
357: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
358: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
359: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
360: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
361: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
362: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 363: <p>
364:
365: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
366: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
367: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
368: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
369: sites such as
370: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
371: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
372: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 373:
1.80 jufi 374: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 375: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
376: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
377:
1.94 millert 378: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
379: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
380: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
381: routers.
382: <p>
383:
1.80 jufi 384: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 385: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 386: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
387: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
388: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 389: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 390:
1.56 louis 391: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
392: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
393: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
394: <p>
1.25 angelos 395:
1.56 louis 396: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
397: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 398: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 399: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
400: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
401: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
402: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
403: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 404: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
405: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 406: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 407:
1.63 louis 408: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
409: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
410: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
411: <p>
412:
1.43 deraadt 413: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 414: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 415: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 416: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
417: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
418: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
419: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 420: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
421: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 422: <p>
1.34 deraadt 423:
1.94 millert 424: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
425: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
426: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
427: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
428: to offer services.
429: <p>
430:
431: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
432: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
433: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
434: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
435: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
436: pharmaceutical firm.
437: <p>
438:
1.56 louis 439: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
440: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
441: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
442: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
443: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
444: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
445: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
446: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
447: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
448:
1.111 grunk 449: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
450: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
451: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
452: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
453: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
454: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
455: for rent.<br>
456: M5 has many customers who use these
457: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
458: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
459: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
460: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
461: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
462:
1.105 ian 463: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
464: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
465: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
466: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
467: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
468: from government and private sector.
469: <p>
470:
1.94 millert 471: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
472: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
473: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
474: <p>
475:
1.80 jufi 476: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 477: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
478: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
479: sites.<p>
480:
481: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
482: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
483: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
484: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
485: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
486: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
487: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
488: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
489:
490: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
491: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
492: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
493: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
494: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
495: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
496: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
497: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
498: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
499: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
500: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
501:
1.61 louis 502: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
503: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
504: <p>
505:
1.101 jose 506: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
507: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
508: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
509: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
510: <p>
511:
1.76 millert 512: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
513: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
514: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
515: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
516: keystone in our security strategy."
517: <p>
518:
1.94 millert 519: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
520: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
521: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
522: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
523: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 524: <p>
525:
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