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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>
1.117 ! grunk 48: <li><a href="http://www.humanrights.gov.au">Human Rights and Equal
! 49: Opportunity Commission, Australia</a><br>
! 50: Established in 1986 and based in Sydney, HREOC is an independent
! 51: statutory organisation which administers federal laws relating to
! 52: alleged human rights breaches and discrimination. The Commission is also
! 53: responsible for human rights education and the investigation and
! 54: conciliation of discrimination and human rights complaints. OpenBSD is
! 55: being utilised to offer various network services.
! 56: <p>
! 57:
1.112 ian 58: <li><a href="http://www.moptt.cl/">Ministerio de
59: Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Chile</a><br>
60: The Public Construction Ministry of the Republic of Chile runs
61: a national WAN and use OpenBSD for their firewalls and link loadbalancers,
62: based on
63: pf.
64: They have been using OpenBSD since the year 2001, and selected the OS
65: so they could sleep well at night without fear of being hacked.
66: <p>
67:
68: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
69: México</a><br>
70: This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its
71: network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN
72: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.
73: <p>
74:
75:
76: </ul>
77:
1.79 jufi 78: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
79: <ul>
1.27 ian 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:
1.116 grunk 141: <li><a href="http://www.lockss.org/">The LOCKSS Program</a><br>
142: ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"), Stanford University Libraries, uses a
143: <a href="http://lockss.stanford.edu/david1.htm">network appliance</a>
144: based on a modified version of OpenBSD that boots and runs from CD.
145: Over 100 of these appliances are running in libraries around the world.
146: They collect and preserve materials published on the web,
147: including academic journals, theses and dissertations, cultural
148: collections and government documents.
149: <p>
150:
151: <li><a href="http://www.pwg-unna.de/">Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule, Unna, Germany</a><br>
152: This German comprehensive school educates students of ages 10 to 19 years old.
153: The school offers Computer Science classes and provides laptops to students.
154: <br>
155: Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule has been using OpenBSD routers since 2004 and
156: since January 2006, all servers run OpenBSD exclusively.
157: They chose OpenBSD for its security and its powerful packet filter.
158: <p>
159:
1.94 millert 160: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
161: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
162: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
163: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
164: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
165: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
166: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
167: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
168: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
169: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
170: <p>
171:
1.56 louis 172: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
173: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
174: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
175: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
176: <p>
1.43 deraadt 177:
1.56 louis 178: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
179: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
180: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
181: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
182: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
183: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
184: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
185: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 186: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 187: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
188: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
189: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
190:
1.96 millert 191: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
192: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
193: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
194: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
195: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
196: <p>
197:
1.56 louis 198: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
199: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
200: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
201: for many intensive research projects.
202: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
203: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
204: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
205: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
206: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
207: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
208: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
209: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
210: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
211: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
212: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
213: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
214: their primary operating system. <p>
215:
216: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
217: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
218: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
219: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
220: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 221:
1.56 louis 222: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
223: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
224: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 225: <p>
226:
1.82 millert 227: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
228: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
229: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
230: supports more than 1,000 students.
231: <p>
232:
1.92 millert 233: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 234: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 235: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 236: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 237: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
238: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 239: <p>
240:
1.79 jufi 241: </ul>
1.56 louis 242:
1.79 jufi 243: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 244:
1.79 jufi 245: <ul>
1.56 louis 246: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
247: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
248: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 249:
1.43 deraadt 250: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
251: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 252: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 253: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 254:
1.107 nick 255: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
256: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
257: for infrastructure purposes.
258: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of it's flagship
259: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
260:
1.43 deraadt 261: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
262: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
263: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 264: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 265: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
266: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 267: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 268:
1.106 saad 269: <li><a href="http://www.genua.de">GeNUA mbH</a><br>
1.108 markus 270: GeNUA, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 271: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
272:
1.56 louis 273: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
274: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
275: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
276: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
277: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
278: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
279: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
280: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
281: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
282: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
283: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 284:
1.94 millert 285: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
286: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
287: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 288: <p>
289:
1.94 millert 290: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
291: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 292: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
293: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 294:
1.56 louis 295: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
296: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
297: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
298: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
299: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
300: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 301:
1.56 louis 302: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
303: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
304: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 305:
1.94 millert 306: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 307: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.94 millert 308: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed,
309: stability, and security.<p>
310:
1.78 millert 311: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
312: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
313: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
314: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
315: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
316: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 317:
1.56 louis 318: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
319: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 320: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 321: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
322: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
323: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
324: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
325: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
326: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
327: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 328: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
329:
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1.1 jkatz 331:
1.79 jufi 332: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 333: <p>
334: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
335: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
336: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
337: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 338: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 339:
1.71 ian 340: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 341: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 342: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 343: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
344: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
345: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
346: <p>
347:
1.94 millert 348: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
349: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
350: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
351: behind the scenes security functions.
352: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
353: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
354: security services."
355: <p>
356:
1.110 grunk 357: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
358: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
359: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
360: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
361: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
362: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
363: and very consistent, we love it.
364: <p>
365:
1.56 louis 366: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
367: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
368: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
369: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 370: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 371: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
372: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 373: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
374: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
375: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
376: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
377: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
378: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
379: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
380: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
381: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 382: <p>
383:
384: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
385: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
386: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
387: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
388: sites such as
389: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
390: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
391: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 392:
1.80 jufi 393: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 394: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
395: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
396:
1.94 millert 397: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
398: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
399: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
400: routers.
401: <p>
402:
1.80 jufi 403: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 404: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 405: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
406: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
407: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 408: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 409:
1.56 louis 410: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
411: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
412: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
413: <p>
1.25 angelos 414:
1.56 louis 415: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
416: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 417: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 418: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
419: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
420: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
421: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
422: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 423: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
424: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 425: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 426:
1.63 louis 427: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
428: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
429: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
430: <p>
431:
1.43 deraadt 432: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 433: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 434: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 435: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
436: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
437: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
438: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 439: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
440: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 441: <p>
1.34 deraadt 442:
1.94 millert 443: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
444: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
445: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
446: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
447: to offer services.
448: <p>
449:
450: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
451: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
452: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
453: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
454: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
455: pharmaceutical firm.
456: <p>
457:
1.56 louis 458: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
459: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
460: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
461: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
462: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
463: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
464: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
465: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
466: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
467:
1.111 grunk 468: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
469: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
470: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
471: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
472: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
473: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
474: for rent.<br>
475: M5 has many customers who use these
476: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
477: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
478: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
479: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
480: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
481:
1.105 ian 482: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
483: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
484: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
485: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
486: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
487: from government and private sector.
488: <p>
489:
1.94 millert 490: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
491: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
492: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
493: <p>
494:
1.80 jufi 495: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 496: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
497: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
498: sites.<p>
499:
500: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
501: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
502: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
503: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
504: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
505: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
506: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
507: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
508:
509: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
510: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
511: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
512: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
513: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
514: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
515: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
516: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
517: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
518: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
519: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
520:
1.61 louis 521: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
522: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
523: <p>
524:
1.101 jose 525: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
526: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
527: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
528: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
529: <p>
530:
1.76 millert 531: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
532: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
533: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
534: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
535: keystone in our security strategy."
536: <p>
537:
1.94 millert 538: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
539: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
540: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
541: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
542: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 543: <p>
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