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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>
1.118 ! grunk 155: Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule has been using OpenBSD routers since 2003 and
! 156: since December 2005, all servers run OpenBSD exclusively.
! 157: The wireless network uses authpf.
1.116 grunk 158: They chose OpenBSD for its security and its powerful packet filter.
159: <p>
160:
1.94 millert 161: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
162: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
163: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
164: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
165: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
166: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
167: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
168: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
169: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
170: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
171: <p>
172:
1.56 louis 173: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
174: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
175: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
176: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
177: <p>
1.43 deraadt 178:
1.56 louis 179: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
180: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
181: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
182: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
183: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
184: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
185: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
186: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 187: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 188: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
189: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
190: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
191:
1.96 millert 192: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
193: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
194: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
195: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
196: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
197: <p>
198:
1.56 louis 199: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
200: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
201: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
202: for many intensive research projects.
203: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
204: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
205: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
206: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
207: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
208: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
209: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
210: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
211: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
212: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
213: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
214: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
215: their primary operating system. <p>
216:
217: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
218: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
219: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
220: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
221: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 222:
1.56 louis 223: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
224: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
225: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 226: <p>
227:
1.82 millert 228: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
229: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
230: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
231: supports more than 1,000 students.
232: <p>
233:
1.92 millert 234: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 235: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 236: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 237: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 238: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
239: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 240: <p>
241:
1.79 jufi 242: </ul>
1.56 louis 243:
1.79 jufi 244: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 245:
1.79 jufi 246: <ul>
1.56 louis 247: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
248: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
249: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 250:
1.43 deraadt 251: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
252: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 253: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 254: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 255:
1.107 nick 256: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
257: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
258: for infrastructure purposes.
259: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of it's flagship
260: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
261:
1.43 deraadt 262: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
263: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
264: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 265: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 266: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
267: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 268: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 269:
1.106 saad 270: <li><a href="http://www.genua.de">GeNUA mbH</a><br>
1.108 markus 271: GeNUA, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 272: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
273:
1.56 louis 274: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
275: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
276: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
277: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
278: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
279: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
280: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
281: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
282: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
283: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
284: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 285:
1.94 millert 286: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
287: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
288: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 289: <p>
290:
1.94 millert 291: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
292: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 293: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
294: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 295:
1.56 louis 296: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
297: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
298: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
299: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
300: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
301: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 302:
1.56 louis 303: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
304: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
305: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 306:
1.94 millert 307: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 308: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.94 millert 309: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed,
310: stability, and security.<p>
311:
1.78 millert 312: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
313: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
314: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
315: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
316: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
317: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 318:
1.56 louis 319: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
320: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 321: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 322: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
323: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
324: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
325: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
326: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
327: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
328: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 329: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
330:
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1.1 jkatz 332:
1.79 jufi 333: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 334: <p>
335: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
336: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
337: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
338: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 339: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 340:
1.71 ian 341: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 342: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 343: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 344: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
345: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
346: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
347: <p>
348:
1.94 millert 349: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
350: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
351: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
352: behind the scenes security functions.
353: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
354: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
355: security services."
356: <p>
357:
1.110 grunk 358: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
359: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
360: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
361: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
362: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
363: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
364: and very consistent, we love it.
365: <p>
366:
1.56 louis 367: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
368: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
369: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
370: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 371: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 372: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
373: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 374: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
375: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
376: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
377: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
378: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
379: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
380: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
381: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
382: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 383: <p>
384:
385: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
386: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
387: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
388: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
389: sites such as
390: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
391: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
392: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 393:
1.80 jufi 394: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 395: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
396: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
397:
1.94 millert 398: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
399: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
400: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
401: routers.
402: <p>
403:
1.80 jufi 404: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 405: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 406: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
407: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
408: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 409: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 410:
1.56 louis 411: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
412: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
413: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
414: <p>
1.25 angelos 415:
1.56 louis 416: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
417: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 418: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 419: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
420: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
421: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
422: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
423: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 424: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
425: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 426: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 427:
1.63 louis 428: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
429: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
430: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
431: <p>
432:
1.43 deraadt 433: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 434: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 435: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 436: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
437: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
438: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
439: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 440: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
441: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 442: <p>
1.34 deraadt 443:
1.94 millert 444: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
445: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
446: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
447: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
448: to offer services.
449: <p>
450:
451: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
452: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
453: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
454: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
455: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
456: pharmaceutical firm.
457: <p>
458:
1.56 louis 459: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
460: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
461: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
462: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
463: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
464: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
465: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
466: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
467: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
468:
1.111 grunk 469: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
470: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
471: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
472: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
473: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
474: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
475: for rent.<br>
476: M5 has many customers who use these
477: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
478: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
479: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
480: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
481: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
482:
1.105 ian 483: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
484: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
485: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
486: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
487: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
488: from government and private sector.
489: <p>
490:
1.94 millert 491: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
492: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
493: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
494: <p>
495:
1.80 jufi 496: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 497: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
498: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
499: sites.<p>
500:
501: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
502: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
503: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
504: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
505: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
506: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
507: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
508: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
509:
510: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
511: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
512: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
513: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
514: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
515: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
516: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
517: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
518: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
519: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
520: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
521:
1.61 louis 522: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
523: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
524: <p>
525:
1.101 jose 526: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
527: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
528: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
529: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
530: <p>
531:
1.76 millert 532: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
533: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
534: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
535: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
536: keystone in our security strategy."
537: <p>
538:
1.94 millert 539: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
540: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
541: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
542: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
543: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 544: <p>
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