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1.79 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Users</font></h2>
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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:
1.119 ! grunk 179: <li><a href="http://sese.asu.edu/">School of Earth and Space Exploration,
! 180: Arizona State University, USA</a><br>
! 181: SESE uses OpenBSD for nearly every public-facing server we manage.
! 182: Being an academic institution, many of our systems run OpenBSD/sparc
! 183: and OpenBSD/macppc, including the public FTP/HTTP/AnonCVS server
! 184: <tt>mirror.sese.asu.edu</tt>. We also abuse OpenBSD on a number of
! 185: authpf'ing firewalls, proxies, and monitoring (nagios, cacti, nut, etc).
! 186: <p>
! 187:
1.56 louis 188: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
189: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
190: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
191: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
192: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
193: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
194: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
195: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 196: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 197: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
198: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
199: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
200:
1.96 millert 201: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
202: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
203: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
204: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
205: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
206: <p>
207:
1.56 louis 208: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
209: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
210: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
211: for many intensive research projects.
212: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
213: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
214: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
215: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
216: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
217: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
218: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
219: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
220: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
221: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
222: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
223: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
224: their primary operating system. <p>
225:
226: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
227: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
228: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
229: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
230: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 231:
1.56 louis 232: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
233: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
234: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 235: <p>
236:
1.82 millert 237: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
238: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
239: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
240: supports more than 1,000 students.
241: <p>
242:
1.92 millert 243: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 244: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 245: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 246: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 247: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
248: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 249: <p>
250:
1.79 jufi 251: </ul>
1.56 louis 252:
1.79 jufi 253: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 254:
1.79 jufi 255: <ul>
1.56 louis 256: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
257: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
258: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 259:
1.43 deraadt 260: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
261: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 262: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 263: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 264:
1.107 nick 265: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
266: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
267: for infrastructure purposes.
268: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of it's flagship
269: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
270:
1.43 deraadt 271: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
272: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
273: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 274: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 275: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
276: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 277: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 278:
1.106 saad 279: <li><a href="http://www.genua.de">GeNUA mbH</a><br>
1.108 markus 280: GeNUA, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 281: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
282:
1.56 louis 283: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
284: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
285: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
286: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
287: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
288: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
289: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
290: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
291: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
292: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
293: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 294:
1.94 millert 295: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
296: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
297: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 298: <p>
299:
1.94 millert 300: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
301: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 302: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
303: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 304:
1.56 louis 305: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
306: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
307: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
308: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
309: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
310: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 311:
1.56 louis 312: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
313: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
314: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 315:
1.94 millert 316: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 317: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.94 millert 318: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed,
319: stability, and security.<p>
320:
1.78 millert 321: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
322: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
323: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
324: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
325: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
326: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 327:
1.56 louis 328: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
329: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 330: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 331: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
332: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
333: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
334: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
335: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
336: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
337: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 338: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
339:
1.79 jufi 340: </ul>
1.1 jkatz 341:
1.79 jufi 342: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 343: <p>
344: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
345: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
346: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
347: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 348: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 349:
1.71 ian 350: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 351: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 352: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 353: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
354: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
355: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
356: <p>
357:
1.94 millert 358: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
359: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
360: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
361: behind the scenes security functions.
362: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
363: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
364: security services."
365: <p>
366:
1.110 grunk 367: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
368: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
369: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
370: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
371: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
372: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
373: and very consistent, we love it.
374: <p>
375:
1.56 louis 376: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
377: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
378: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
379: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 380: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 381: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
382: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 383: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
384: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
385: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
386: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
387: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
388: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
389: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
390: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
391: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 392: <p>
393:
394: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
395: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
396: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
397: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
398: sites such as
399: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
400: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
401: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 402:
1.80 jufi 403: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 404: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
405: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
406:
1.94 millert 407: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
408: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
409: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
410: routers.
411: <p>
412:
1.80 jufi 413: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 414: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 415: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
416: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
417: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 418: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 419:
1.56 louis 420: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
421: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
422: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
423: <p>
1.25 angelos 424:
1.56 louis 425: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
426: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 427: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 428: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
429: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
430: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
431: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
432: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 433: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
434: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 435: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 436:
1.63 louis 437: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
438: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
439: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
440: <p>
441:
1.43 deraadt 442: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 443: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 444: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 445: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
446: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
447: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
448: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 449: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
450: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 451: <p>
1.34 deraadt 452:
1.94 millert 453: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
454: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
455: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
456: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
457: to offer services.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
461: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
462: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
463: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
464: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
465: pharmaceutical firm.
466: <p>
467:
1.56 louis 468: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
469: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
470: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
471: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
472: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
473: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
474: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
475: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
476: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
477:
1.111 grunk 478: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
479: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
480: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
481: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
482: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
483: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
484: for rent.<br>
485: M5 has many customers who use these
486: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
487: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
488: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
489: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
490: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
491:
1.105 ian 492: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
493: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
494: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
495: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
496: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
497: from government and private sector.
498: <p>
499:
1.94 millert 500: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
501: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
502: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
503: <p>
504:
1.80 jufi 505: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 506: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
507: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
508: sites.<p>
509:
510: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
511: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
512: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
513: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
514: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
515: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
516: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
517: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
518:
519: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
520: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
521: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
522: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
523: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
524: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
525: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
526: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
527: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
528: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
529: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
530:
1.61 louis 531: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
532: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
533: <p>
534:
1.101 jose 535: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
536: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
537: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
538: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
539: <p>
540:
1.76 millert 541: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
542: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
543: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
544: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
545: keystone in our security strategy."
546: <p>
547:
1.94 millert 548: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
549: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
550: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
551: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
552: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 553: <p>
554:
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