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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:
1.121 grunk 68: <li><a href="http://www.culturayturismo.gov.co/">Instituto Distrital de
1.127 ! wvdputte 69: Cultura y Turismo</a>, Bogota, Colombia<br>
1.121 grunk 70: In this government agency, OpenBSD is essential: perimeter firewalls,
71: network intrusion systems, bandwidth managers and a mail filter gateway
72: that uses spamd and some other OpenBSD tools keep their network secure.
73: <p>
74:
1.112 ian 75: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
76: México</a><br>
77: This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its
78: network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN
79: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.
80: <p>
81:
82:
83: </ul>
84:
1.79 jufi 85: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
86: <ul>
1.27 ian 87:
1.95 millert 88: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
89: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
90: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
91: ambulatories. OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
92: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
93: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
94: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94 millert 95: <p>
96:
1.96 millert 97: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
98: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
99: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
100: <p>
101:
1.124 deanna 102: <li><a href="http://www.capitol-college.edu/">Capitol College</a><br>
103: Capitol College is the only independent college in Maryland
104: dedicated to engineering, computer science, information technology
105: and business. Capitol College is a regionally accredited institution
106: offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as
107: professional development training and certificates. They use OpenBSD
108: for a variety of functions, from serving their website, protecting
109: their network with the PF firewall and QoS, Intrusion Detection
110: monitoring, and hosting their internal Certificate Authority.
111: <p>
112:
1.97 millert 113: <li><a href="http://elm.eu.org/">ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany</a><br>
114: The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses
115: OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers.
116: <p>
117:
1.104 david 118: <li><a href="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</a><br>
119: ENEP Iztacala is one of <a href="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</a>'s peripheral
1.58 louis 120: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
121: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
122: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
123: <br>
124: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
125: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
126: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
127: <br>
1.65 jufi 128: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 129: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
130: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
1.109 grunk 131: mirror.
1.58 louis 132: <br>
133: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
134: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
135: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
136: <br>
137: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
138: <p>
139:
1.94 millert 140: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
141: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
142: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
143: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
144: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
145: <p>
146:
1.66 jufi 147: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
148: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
149: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
150: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
151: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
152: <p>
153:
1.60 louis 154: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
155: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
156: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
157: <p>
158:
1.116 grunk 159: <li><a href="http://www.lockss.org/">The LOCKSS Program</a><br>
160: ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"), Stanford University Libraries, uses a
161: <a href="http://lockss.stanford.edu/david1.htm">network appliance</a>
162: based on a modified version of OpenBSD that boots and runs from CD.
163: Over 100 of these appliances are running in libraries around the world.
164: They collect and preserve materials published on the web,
165: including academic journals, theses and dissertations, cultural
166: collections and government documents.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><a href="http://www.pwg-unna.de/">Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule, Unna, Germany</a><br>
170: This German comprehensive school educates students of ages 10 to 19 years old.
171: The school offers Computer Science classes and provides laptops to students.
172: <br>
1.118 grunk 173: Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule has been using OpenBSD routers since 2003 and
174: since December 2005, all servers run OpenBSD exclusively.
175: The wireless network uses authpf.
1.116 grunk 176: They chose OpenBSD for its security and its powerful packet filter.
177: <p>
178:
1.94 millert 179: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
180: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
181: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
182: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
183: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
184: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
185: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
186: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
187: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
188: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
189: <p>
190:
1.56 louis 191: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
192: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
193: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
194: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
195: <p>
1.43 deraadt 196:
1.119 grunk 197: <li><a href="http://sese.asu.edu/">School of Earth and Space Exploration,
198: Arizona State University, USA</a><br>
199: SESE uses OpenBSD for nearly every public-facing server we manage.
200: Being an academic institution, many of our systems run OpenBSD/sparc
201: and OpenBSD/macppc, including the public FTP/HTTP/AnonCVS server
202: <tt>mirror.sese.asu.edu</tt>. We also abuse OpenBSD on a number of
203: authpf'ing firewalls, proxies, and monitoring (nagios, cacti, nut, etc).
204: <p>
205:
1.56 louis 206: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
207: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
208: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
209: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
210: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
211: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
212: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
213: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 214: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 215: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
216: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
217: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
218:
1.126 deanna 219: <li><a href="http://www.ucdavis.edu/">The University of California, Davis</a><br>
220: OpenBSD is used extensively in Schools, Colleges, and Departments at UC
221: Davis as part of the campus firewall solution. Additionally, OpenBSD
222: servers provide instructional lab fileserver redundancy with CARP, serve
223: up web content in Zope/Plone, proxy websites with Squid, and provide
224: networking services such as dhcp and DNS (djbdns).<p>
225:
1.96 millert 226: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
227: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
228: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
229: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
230: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
231: <p>
232:
1.56 louis 233: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
234: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
235: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
236: for many intensive research projects.
237: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
238: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
239: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
240: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
241: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
242: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
243: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
244: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
245: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
246: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
247: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
248: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
249: their primary operating system. <p>
250:
251: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
252: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
253: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
254: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
255: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 256:
1.56 louis 257: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
258: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
259: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 260: <p>
261:
1.82 millert 262: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
263: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
264: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
265: supports more than 1,000 students.
266: <p>
267:
1.92 millert 268: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 269: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 270: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 271: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 272: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
273: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 274: <p>
275:
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1.56 louis 277:
1.79 jufi 278: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 279:
1.79 jufi 280: <ul>
1.56 louis 281: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
282: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
283: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 284:
1.43 deraadt 285: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
286: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 287: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 288: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 289:
1.107 nick 290: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
291: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
292: for infrastructure purposes.
1.120 tom 293: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of its flagship
1.107 nick 294: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
295:
1.123 deanna 296: <li><a href="http://www.cebatech.com/">CebaTech</a><br>
297: CebaTech Inc. develops tools and intellectual property modules that accelerate
298: the development and realization of software algorithms and complex communication
299: protocols into silicon. CebaTech uses OpenBSD as the source for development of
300: hardware modules that go into chips and FPGAs.<p>
301:
1.43 deraadt 302: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
303: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
304: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 305: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 306: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
307: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 308: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 309:
1.125 deanna 310: <li><a href="http://www.demosphere.com/">Demosphere International, Inc.</a><br>
311: Demosphere International, Inc. provides secure member registration, credit card
312: processing, and statistical content for soccer clubs, leagues, and national
313: governing bodies. OpenBSD is employed for redundant firewall failover capability
314: (CARP and pfsync), as well as dedicated servers for syslog (including webalyzer),
315: DNS, and email broadcasting using Postfix.<p>
316:
1.106 saad 317: <li><a href="http://www.genua.de">GeNUA mbH</a><br>
1.108 markus 318: GeNUA, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 319: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
320:
1.56 louis 321: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
322: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
323: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
324: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
325: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
326: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
327: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
328: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
329: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
330: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
331: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 332:
1.94 millert 333: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
334: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
335: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 336: <p>
337:
1.123 deanna 338: <li><a href="http://www.loligo.com/">Loligo Cache Systems</a><br>
339: Loligo Cache Systems uses OpenBSD as a <em>'fire-and-forget'</em> platform for
340: hosting web, mail, and streaming video services. <i>"OpenBSD has provided us
341: with more than 10 years of worry-free infrastructure support and excellent
342: performance, with an ethos that just makes more sense to us than any
343: other platform."</i><p>
344:
1.94 millert 345: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
346: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 347: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
348: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 349:
1.123 deanna 350: <li><a href="http://www.netthruput.com/">NetThruPut, Inc.</a><br>
351: NetThruPut, Inc. is the North American leader in internet-based
352: crude oil trading systems. OpenBSD is used for its fail-over abilities,
353: as well as bridging, intrusion detection and connecting remote offices
354: and users securely.<p>
355:
1.56 louis 356: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
357: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
358: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
359: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
360: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
361: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 362:
1.56 louis 363: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
364: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
365: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 366:
1.123 deanna 367: <li><a href="http://www.talkplus.com/">TalkPlus</a><br>
368: TalkPlus provides advanced Voice 2.0 services over mobile networks. The
369: company uses OpenBSD as secure mail and DNS platforms, in various places
370: where there are requirements of exposing systems to the public Internet.
371: <i>"We've found that OpenBSD had the best ease of installation and high
372: security we were looking for."</i><p>
373:
1.94 millert 374: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 375: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.120 tom 376: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to its speed,
1.94 millert 377: stability, and security.<p>
378:
1.78 millert 379: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
380: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
381: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
382: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
383: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
384: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 385:
1.56 louis 386: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
387: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 388: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 389: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
390: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
391: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
392: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
393: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
394: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
395: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 396: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
397:
1.79 jufi 398: </ul>
1.1 jkatz 399:
1.79 jufi 400: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 401: <p>
402: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
403: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
404: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
405: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 406: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 407:
1.71 ian 408: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 409: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 410: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 411: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
412: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
413: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
414: <p>
415:
1.94 millert 416: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
417: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
418: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
419: behind the scenes security functions.
420: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
421: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
422: security services."
423: <p>
424:
1.110 grunk 425: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
426: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
427: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
428: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
429: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
430: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
431: and very consistent, we love it.
432: <p>
433:
1.56 louis 434: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
435: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
436: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
437: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 438: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 439: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
440: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 441: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
442: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
443: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
444: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
445: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
446: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
447: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
448: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
449: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 450: <p>
451:
452: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
453: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
454: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
455: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
456: sites such as
457: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
458: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
459: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 460:
1.80 jufi 461: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 462: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
463: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
464:
1.94 millert 465: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
466: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
467: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
468: routers.
469: <p>
470:
1.80 jufi 471: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 472: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 473: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
474: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
475: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 476: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 477:
1.122 grunk 478: <li><a href="http://www.reverse.net/">Reverse.Net (former Elixor Networks)</a><br>
479: Reverse.Net uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
1.56 louis 480: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
481: <p>
1.25 angelos 482:
1.56 louis 483: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
484: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 485: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 486: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
487: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
488: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
489: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
490: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 491: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
492: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 493: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 494:
1.63 louis 495: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
496: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
497: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
498: <p>
499:
1.43 deraadt 500: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 501: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 502: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 503: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
504: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
505: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
506: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 507: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
508: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 509: <p>
1.34 deraadt 510:
1.94 millert 511: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
512: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
513: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
514: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
515: to offer services.
516: <p>
517:
518: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
519: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
520: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
521: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
522: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
523: pharmaceutical firm.
524: <p>
525:
1.56 louis 526: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
527: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
528: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
529: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
530: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
531: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
532: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
533: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
534: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
535:
1.111 grunk 536: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
537: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
538: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
539: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
540: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
541: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
542: for rent.<br>
543: M5 has many customers who use these
544: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
545: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
546: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
547: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
548: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
549:
1.105 ian 550: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
551: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
552: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
553: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
554: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
555: from government and private sector.
556: <p>
557:
1.94 millert 558: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
559: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
560: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
561: <p>
562:
1.80 jufi 563: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 564: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
565: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
566: sites.<p>
567:
568: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
569: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
570: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
571: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
572: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
573: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
574: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
575: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
576:
577: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
578: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
579: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
580: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
581: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
582: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
583: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
584: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
585: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
586: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
587: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
588:
1.61 louis 589: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
590: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
591: <p>
592:
1.101 jose 593: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
594: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
595: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
596: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
597: <p>
598:
1.76 millert 599: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
600: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
601: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
602: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
603: keystone in our security strategy."
604: <p>
605:
1.94 millert 606: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
607: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
608: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
609: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
610: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 611: <p>
612:
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