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1.79 jufi 15: <h2><font color="#e00000">Users</font></h2>
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1.104 david 17: The term "users" has several connotations. <em>End users</em> often
1.47 ian 18: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
19: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
20: is with one of our
21: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
22: <p>
23: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56 louis 24: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
1.65 jufi 25: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 26: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 27: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
28: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
29: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
30: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
31: security features hard to resist.
1.113 mbalmer 32: Even <a href="#gov">governments</a> from different countries pick OpenBSD
1.114 ian 33: for securing their vital informational infrastructure.
1.56 louis 34: <p>
1.38 louis 35:
36: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
37: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
38: <br><br>
39:
40: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
41: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
42: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 43: <hr>
44:
1.112 ian 45: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="gov">Governments</a></font></h2>
46: <ul>
1.117 grunk 47: <li><a href="http://www.humanrights.gov.au">Human Rights and Equal
48: Opportunity Commission, Australia</a><br>
49: Established in 1986 and based in Sydney, HREOC is an independent
50: statutory organisation which administers federal laws relating to
51: alleged human rights breaches and discrimination. The Commission is also
52: responsible for human rights education and the investigation and
53: conciliation of discrimination and human rights complaints. OpenBSD is
54: being utilised to offer various network services.
55: <p>
56:
1.112 ian 57: <li><a href="http://www.moptt.cl/">Ministerio de
58: Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Chile</a><br>
59: The Public Construction Ministry of the Republic of Chile runs
60: a national WAN and use OpenBSD for their firewalls and link loadbalancers,
61: based on
62: pf.
63: They have been using OpenBSD since the year 2001, and selected the OS
64: so they could sleep well at night without fear of being hacked.
65: <p>
66:
1.121 grunk 67: <li><a href="http://www.culturayturismo.gov.co/">Instituto Distrital de
1.127 wvdputte 68: Cultura y Turismo</a>, Bogota, Colombia<br>
1.121 grunk 69: In this government agency, OpenBSD is essential: perimeter firewalls,
70: network intrusion systems, bandwidth managers and a mail filter gateway
71: that uses spamd and some other OpenBSD tools keep their network secure.
72: <p>
73:
1.112 ian 74: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
75: México</a><br>
76: This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its
77: network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN
78: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.
79: <p>
80:
81:
82: </ul>
83:
1.79 jufi 84: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
85: <ul>
1.27 ian 86:
1.95 millert 87: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
88: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
89: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
90: ambulatories. OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
91: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
92: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
93: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94 millert 94: <p>
95:
1.96 millert 96: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
97: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
98: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
99: <p>
100:
1.124 deanna 101: <li><a href="http://www.capitol-college.edu/">Capitol College</a><br>
102: Capitol College is the only independent college in Maryland
103: dedicated to engineering, computer science, information technology
104: and business. Capitol College is a regionally accredited institution
105: offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as
106: professional development training and certificates. They use OpenBSD
107: for a variety of functions, from serving their website, protecting
108: their network with the PF firewall and QoS, Intrusion Detection
109: monitoring, and hosting their internal Certificate Authority.
110: <p>
111:
1.97 millert 112: <li><a href="http://elm.eu.org/">ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany</a><br>
113: The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses
114: OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers.
115: <p>
116:
1.104 david 117: <li><a href="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</a><br>
118: ENEP Iztacala is one of <a href="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</a>'s peripheral
1.58 louis 119: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
120: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
121: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
122: <br>
123: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
124: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
125: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
126: <br>
1.65 jufi 127: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 128: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
129: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
1.109 grunk 130: mirror.
1.58 louis 131: <br>
132: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
133: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
134: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
135: <br>
136: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
137: <p>
138:
1.94 millert 139: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
140: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
141: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
142: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
143: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
144: <p>
145:
1.66 jufi 146: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
147: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
148: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
149: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
150: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
151: <p>
152:
1.60 louis 153: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
154: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
155: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
156: <p>
157:
1.116 grunk 158: <li><a href="http://www.lockss.org/">The LOCKSS Program</a><br>
159: ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"), Stanford University Libraries, uses a
160: <a href="http://lockss.stanford.edu/david1.htm">network appliance</a>
161: based on a modified version of OpenBSD that boots and runs from CD.
162: Over 100 of these appliances are running in libraries around the world.
163: They collect and preserve materials published on the web,
164: including academic journals, theses and dissertations, cultural
165: collections and government documents.
166: <p>
167:
168: <li><a href="http://www.pwg-unna.de/">Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule, Unna, Germany</a><br>
169: This German comprehensive school educates students of ages 10 to 19 years old.
170: The school offers Computer Science classes and provides laptops to students.
171: <br>
1.118 grunk 172: Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule has been using OpenBSD routers since 2003 and
173: since December 2005, all servers run OpenBSD exclusively.
174: The wireless network uses authpf.
1.116 grunk 175: They chose OpenBSD for its security and its powerful packet filter.
176: <p>
177:
1.94 millert 178: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
179: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
180: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
181: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
182: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
183: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
184: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
185: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
186: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
187: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
188: <p>
189:
1.56 louis 190: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
191: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
192: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
193: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
194: <p>
1.43 deraadt 195:
1.128 ian 196: <li>The <a href="http://www.rcmusic.ca/">Royal Conservatory of Music</a><br>
197: The RCM in Toronto, Canada is a 120-year-old national cultural
198: institution with an alumni base of around 800,000 Canadians who have
199: either studied through its system of teachers and examinations or taken
200: music lessons based on the RCM curriculum.
201: Recently, they have been branching out into other areas of the arts.
202: The RCM also operates its own
203: <a href="http://www.frederickharrismusic.com">publishing house</a> and an
204: <a href="http://www.rcmexaminations.org">online examination
205: scheduling service</a> for its students.
206: <p>
207: They operate a heterogeneous network that incorporates an IBM i520
208: (successor to the AS/400), multiple Sun boxen, Windows machines, and some
209: FreeBSD systems.
210: The first use of OpenBSD is to provide a secure router for the IT lab;
211: other applications are coming.
212: <p>
213:
1.119 grunk 214: <li><a href="http://sese.asu.edu/">School of Earth and Space Exploration,
215: Arizona State University, USA</a><br>
216: SESE uses OpenBSD for nearly every public-facing server we manage.
217: Being an academic institution, many of our systems run OpenBSD/sparc
218: and OpenBSD/macppc, including the public FTP/HTTP/AnonCVS server
219: <tt>mirror.sese.asu.edu</tt>. We also abuse OpenBSD on a number of
220: authpf'ing firewalls, proxies, and monitoring (nagios, cacti, nut, etc).
221: <p>
222:
1.56 louis 223: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
224: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
225: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
226: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
227: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
228: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
229: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
230: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 231: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 232: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
233: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
234: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
235:
1.126 deanna 236: <li><a href="http://www.ucdavis.edu/">The University of California, Davis</a><br>
237: OpenBSD is used extensively in Schools, Colleges, and Departments at UC
238: Davis as part of the campus firewall solution. Additionally, OpenBSD
239: servers provide instructional lab fileserver redundancy with CARP, serve
240: up web content in Zope/Plone, proxy websites with Squid, and provide
241: networking services such as dhcp and DNS (djbdns).<p>
242:
1.96 millert 243: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
244: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
245: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
246: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
247: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
248: <p>
249:
1.56 louis 250: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
251: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
252: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
253: for many intensive research projects.
254: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
255: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
256: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
257: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
258: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
259: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
260: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
261: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
262: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
263: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
264: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
265: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
266: their primary operating system. <p>
267:
268: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
269: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
270: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
271: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
272: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 273:
1.56 louis 274: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
275: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
276: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 277: <p>
278:
1.82 millert 279: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
280: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
281: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
282: supports more than 1,000 students.
283: <p>
284:
1.92 millert 285: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 286: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 287: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 288: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 289: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
290: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 291: <p>
292:
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1.56 louis 294:
1.79 jufi 295: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 296:
1.79 jufi 297: <ul>
1.56 louis 298: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
299: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
300: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 301:
1.43 deraadt 302: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
303: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 304: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 305: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 306:
1.107 nick 307: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
308: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
309: for infrastructure purposes.
1.120 tom 310: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of its flagship
1.107 nick 311: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
312:
1.123 deanna 313: <li><a href="http://www.cebatech.com/">CebaTech</a><br>
314: CebaTech Inc. develops tools and intellectual property modules that accelerate
315: the development and realization of software algorithms and complex communication
316: protocols into silicon. CebaTech uses OpenBSD as the source for development of
317: hardware modules that go into chips and FPGAs.<p>
318:
1.43 deraadt 319: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
320: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
321: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 322: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 323: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
324: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 325: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 326:
1.125 deanna 327: <li><a href="http://www.demosphere.com/">Demosphere International, Inc.</a><br>
328: Demosphere International, Inc. provides secure member registration, credit card
329: processing, and statistical content for soccer clubs, leagues, and national
330: governing bodies. OpenBSD is employed for redundant firewall failover capability
331: (CARP and pfsync), as well as dedicated servers for syslog (including webalyzer),
332: DNS, and email broadcasting using Postfix.<p>
333:
1.131 schwarze 334: <li><a href="http://www.genua.eu/">genua mbh</a><br>
335: genua, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 336: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
337:
1.56 louis 338: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
339: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
340: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
341: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
342: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
343: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
344: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
345: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
346: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
347: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
348: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 349:
1.94 millert 350: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
351: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
352: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 353: <p>
354:
1.123 deanna 355: <li><a href="http://www.loligo.com/">Loligo Cache Systems</a><br>
356: Loligo Cache Systems uses OpenBSD as a <em>'fire-and-forget'</em> platform for
357: hosting web, mail, and streaming video services. <i>"OpenBSD has provided us
358: with more than 10 years of worry-free infrastructure support and excellent
359: performance, with an ethos that just makes more sense to us than any
360: other platform."</i><p>
361:
1.94 millert 362: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
363: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 364: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
365: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 366:
1.123 deanna 367: <li><a href="http://www.netthruput.com/">NetThruPut, Inc.</a><br>
368: NetThruPut, Inc. is the North American leader in internet-based
369: crude oil trading systems. OpenBSD is used for its fail-over abilities,
370: as well as bridging, intrusion detection and connecting remote offices
371: and users securely.<p>
372:
1.56 louis 373: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
374: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
375: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
376: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
377: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
378: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 379:
1.56 louis 380: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
381: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
382: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 383:
1.123 deanna 384: <li><a href="http://www.talkplus.com/">TalkPlus</a><br>
385: TalkPlus provides advanced Voice 2.0 services over mobile networks. The
386: company uses OpenBSD as secure mail and DNS platforms, in various places
387: where there are requirements of exposing systems to the public Internet.
388: <i>"We've found that OpenBSD had the best ease of installation and high
389: security we were looking for."</i><p>
390:
1.94 millert 391: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 392: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.120 tom 393: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to its speed,
1.94 millert 394: stability, and security.<p>
395:
1.78 millert 396: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
397: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
398: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
399: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
400: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
401: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 402:
1.56 louis 403: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
404: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 405: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 406: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
407: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
408: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
409: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
410: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
411: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
412: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 413: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
414:
1.130 mikeb 415: <li><a href="http://www.vantronix.com">.vantronix secure systems</a><br>
416: .vantronix secure systems, a division of Compumatica, is specialized in the
417: field of highly secure appliances. .vantronix appliances are used for
418: firewall, network based anti-spam, routing, load balancing, VPN, IPv6 gateway
419: functionality developed on a solid and proven platform powered by OpenBSD.<p>
420:
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1.1 jkatz 422:
1.79 jufi 423: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 424: <p>
425: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
426: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
427: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
428: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 429: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 430:
1.71 ian 431: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 432: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.133 ! bentley 433: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
! 434: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
1.70 ian 435: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
436: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
437: <p>
438:
1.94 millert 439: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
440: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
441: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
442: behind the scenes security functions.
443: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
444: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
445: security services."
446: <p>
447:
1.110 grunk 448: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
449: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
450: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
451: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
452: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
453: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
454: and very consistent, we love it.
455: <p>
456:
1.56 louis 457: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
458: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
459: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
460: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 461: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 462: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
463: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 464: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
465: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
466: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
467: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
468: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
469: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
470: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
471: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
472: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 473: <p>
474:
475: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
476: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
477: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
478: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
479: sites such as
480: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
481: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
482: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 483:
1.80 jufi 484: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 485: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
486: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
487:
1.94 millert 488: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
489: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
490: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
491: routers.
492: <p>
493:
1.80 jufi 494: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 495: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 496: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
497: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
498: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 499: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 500:
1.122 grunk 501: <li><a href="http://www.reverse.net/">Reverse.Net (former Elixor Networks)</a><br>
502: Reverse.Net uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
1.56 louis 503: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
504: <p>
1.25 angelos 505:
1.56 louis 506: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
507: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 508: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 509: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
510: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
511: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
512: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
513: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 514: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
515: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 516: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 517:
1.63 louis 518: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
519: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
520: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
521: <p>
522:
1.43 deraadt 523: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 524: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 525: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 526: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
527: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
528: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
529: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 530: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
531: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 532: <p>
1.34 deraadt 533:
1.94 millert 534: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
535: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
536: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
537: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
538: to offer services.
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
542: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
543: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
544: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
545: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
546: pharmaceutical firm.
547: <p>
548:
1.56 louis 549: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
550: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
551: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
552: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
553: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
554: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
555: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
556: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
557: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
558:
1.111 grunk 559: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
560: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
561: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
562: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
563: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
564: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
565: for rent.<br>
566: M5 has many customers who use these
567: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
568: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
569: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
570: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
571: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
572:
1.105 ian 573: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
574: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
575: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
576: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
577: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
578: from government and private sector.
579: <p>
580:
1.94 millert 581: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
582: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
583: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
584: <p>
585:
1.80 jufi 586: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 587: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
588: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
589: sites.<p>
590:
591: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
592: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
593: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
594: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
595: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
596: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
597: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
598: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
599:
600: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
601: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
602: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
603: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
604: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
605: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
606: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
607: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
608: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
609: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
610: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
611:
1.61 louis 612: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
613: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
614: <p>
615:
1.101 jose 616: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
617: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
618: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
619: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
620: <p>
621:
1.129 tobias 622: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
623: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
1.76 millert 624: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
625: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
626: keystone in our security strategy."
627: <p>
628:
1.94 millert 629: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
630: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
631: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
632: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
633: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 634: <p>
635:
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