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17: OpenBSD is not just a kernel hackers' operating system. Several
18: corporations, universities, and ISP's are using OpenBSD to serve their IT,
19: research and security needs. The following list and associated statistics
20: should speak for themselves about the reliability and integrity of an
21: OpenBSD system.<br><br>
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23: <i><b>NOTE:</b> Some companies for security purposes have asked that we do
24: not disclose the name of their business. To comply with these wishes you
25: may notice "Undisclosed Company" in some of our listings.</i><br><br>
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1.12 ! ivan 31: <li><A HREF="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</A> an Information
! 32: Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main
! 33: plataform for operation and development of information security related
! 34: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
! 35: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware plataforms,
! 36: provides an ideal operating system for enviroments where security and high
! 37: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.</li>
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1.3 jkatz 39: <li><a href=http://www.secnet.com>Secure Networks, Inc.</a>
40: has been using OpenBSD as their core development
1.1 jkatz 41: platform for their flagship product, Ballista. According to a corporate
42: representative, "it [OpenBSD] has proven to be very stable, and quite well
43: supported for a free operating system." In addition, it should be noted
44: that code from the Ballista project developed on OpenBSD systems was
45: easily ported to Irix and Solaris.
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1.10 johns 47: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 48: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
49: planning. They query 32,000 different interfaces via SNMP, logging
50: SNMP data to concatenated disk for processing each month.
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1.1 jkatz 52: <li><a href="http://www.mac.edu">MacMurray College</a> of Jacksonville,
1.8 jkatz 53: Illinois is using a P5/150 as its main server for over 600 students and
54: 100 staff and faculty users. This system is also planned to be used by
55: the MacMurray Computer Science department for both the instrcution of
56: programming and administration. By using OpenBSD on existing hardware,
1.1 jkatz 57: MacMurray plans to save the thousands needed to keep a current version of
58: AIX running on their RS/6000 server.
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60: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
61: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
62: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
63: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
64: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
65: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
66: currently working. <br>
67: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
68: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
69: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
70: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
71: not-too-distant future.<br>
72: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
73: supporting the organization as it grows."
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1.3 jkatz 75: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
76: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 77: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
78: sites.
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80: <li>Felix Schröter is developing a generic IP tunneling program which
81: will be able to tunnel IP and other protocols (OS dependant), through a
82: streams based connections. The software can optionally encrypt and
83: integrity check the packets it transfers. This software is aimed
84: as a solution for VPN (virtual private networks).<br>
85: Felix is using OpenBSD because of the pseudo-device "tun" which makes
86: getting IP and other protocol's packets from the kernel quite easily.<br>
87: Licensing negotiations for this product are still underway. Felix hopes to
1.7 flipk 88: provide a free license (binary and source) for non-commericial use.
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1.3 jkatz 90: <li><a href=http://www.tal.net>TAL Wireless Networks, Inc.</a>
91: uses OpenBSD as a platform for multiple
1.1 jkatz 92: firewall, http proxy and dialup and servers across California. Some of
93: these machines were formerly running the commercial version of BSD,
94: BSD/OS. TALNET S.A., the Argentina based offices of TALNET are using
95: OpenBSD as a mail server, firewall and http proxy.
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1.2 jkatz 97: <li><a href="http://www.etinc.com">Emerging Technologies Inc.</a> makes T1
1.1 jkatz 98: and other synchronous communications hardware and software for the OpenBSD
99: platform. This hardware is in use in many ISPs world-wide and shows how
100: effectively OpenBSD can be used as a communications routing platform for
101: IP routing. These products allow OpenBSD-based machines to directly
102: connect ot 56kbs DDS, T1 lines or frame relay networks, eliminating the
103: need for an external router. <br>
104: On the software end, ET/BWMGR, ET's Bandwith Manager, a part of their
105: software drivers, has been ported to the OpenBSD platform. The bandwith
106: manager can effectively be used as a solution for network managers who
107: need to tune bandwith usage, control the bandwith of their client sites,
108: and clear up network bottlenecks.
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110: <li>An undisclosed company is using OpenBSD on a Sparc 1+ as a private
111: firewall and WWW server for 50-100 internal client workstations.
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1.11 rees 113: <li>The
114: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
115: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
116: for many intensive research projects.
117: OpenBSD is used for developing and analysing
118: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
119: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
120: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
121: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
122: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
123: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 124: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
125: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
126: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
127: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
128: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
129: their primary operating system.
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