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1.79 jufi 13: <h2><font color="#e00000">Users</font></h2>
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1.104 david 15: The term "users" has several connotations. <em>End users</em> often
1.47 ian 16: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
17: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
18: is with one of our
19: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
20: <p>
21: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56 louis 22: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
1.65 jufi 23: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 24: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 25: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
26: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
27: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
28: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
29: security features hard to resist.
1.113 mbalmer 30: Even <a href="#gov">governments</a> from different countries pick OpenBSD
1.114 ian 31: for securing their vital informational infrastructure.
1.56 louis 32: <p>
1.38 louis 33:
34: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
35: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
36: <br><br>
37:
38: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
39: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
40: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 41: <hr>
42:
1.112 ian 43: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="gov">Governments</a></font></h2>
44: <ul>
1.117 grunk 45: <li><a href="http://www.humanrights.gov.au">Human Rights and Equal
46: Opportunity Commission, Australia</a><br>
47: Established in 1986 and based in Sydney, HREOC is an independent
48: statutory organisation which administers federal laws relating to
49: alleged human rights breaches and discrimination. The Commission is also
50: responsible for human rights education and the investigation and
51: conciliation of discrimination and human rights complaints. OpenBSD is
52: being utilised to offer various network services.
53: <p>
54:
1.112 ian 55: <li><a href="http://www.moptt.cl/">Ministerio de
56: Obras Públicas del Gobierno de Chile</a><br>
57: The Public Construction Ministry of the Republic of Chile runs
58: a national WAN and use OpenBSD for their firewalls and link loadbalancers,
59: based on
60: pf.
61: They have been using OpenBSD since the year 2001, and selected the OS
62: so they could sleep well at night without fear of being hacked.
63: <p>
64:
1.121 grunk 65: <li><a href="http://www.culturayturismo.gov.co/">Instituto Distrital de
1.127 wvdputte 66: Cultura y Turismo</a>, Bogota, Colombia<br>
1.121 grunk 67: In this government agency, OpenBSD is essential: perimeter firewalls,
68: network intrusion systems, bandwidth managers and a mail filter gateway
69: that uses spamd and some other OpenBSD tools keep their network secure.
70: <p>
71:
1.112 ian 72: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
73: México</a><br>
74: This government agency uses OpenBSD to protect its
75: network and for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD-based VPN
76: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.
77: <p>
78:
79:
80: </ul>
81:
1.79 jufi 82: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
83: <ul>
1.27 ian 84:
1.95 millert 85: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
86: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
87: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
88: ambulatories. OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
89: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
90: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
91: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94 millert 92: <p>
93:
1.96 millert 94: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
95: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
96: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
97: <p>
98:
1.124 deanna 99: <li><a href="http://www.capitol-college.edu/">Capitol College</a><br>
100: Capitol College is the only independent college in Maryland
101: dedicated to engineering, computer science, information technology
102: and business. Capitol College is a regionally accredited institution
103: offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as
104: professional development training and certificates. They use OpenBSD
105: for a variety of functions, from serving their website, protecting
106: their network with the PF firewall and QoS, Intrusion Detection
107: monitoring, and hosting their internal Certificate Authority.
108: <p>
109:
1.97 millert 110: <li><a href="http://elm.eu.org/">ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany</a><br>
111: The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses
112: OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers.
113: <p>
114:
1.104 david 115: <li><a href="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</a><br>
116: ENEP Iztacala is one of <a href="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</a>'s peripheral
1.58 louis 117: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
118: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
119: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
120: <br>
121: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
122: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
123: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
124: <br>
1.65 jufi 125: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 126: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
127: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
1.109 grunk 128: mirror.
1.58 louis 129: <br>
130: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
131: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
132: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
133: <br>
134: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
135: <p>
136:
1.94 millert 137: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
138: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
139: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
140: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
141: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
142: <p>
143:
1.66 jufi 144: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
145: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
146: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
147: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
148: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
149: <p>
150:
1.60 louis 151: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
152: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
153: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
154: <p>
155:
1.116 grunk 156: <li><a href="http://www.lockss.org/">The LOCKSS Program</a><br>
157: ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe"), Stanford University Libraries, uses a
158: <a href="http://lockss.stanford.edu/david1.htm">network appliance</a>
159: based on a modified version of OpenBSD that boots and runs from CD.
160: Over 100 of these appliances are running in libraries around the world.
161: They collect and preserve materials published on the web,
162: including academic journals, theses and dissertations, cultural
163: collections and government documents.
164: <p>
165:
166: <li><a href="http://www.pwg-unna.de/">Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule, Unna, Germany</a><br>
167: This German comprehensive school educates students of ages 10 to 19 years old.
168: The school offers Computer Science classes and provides laptops to students.
169: <br>
1.118 grunk 170: Peter-Weiss-Gesamtschule has been using OpenBSD routers since 2003 and
171: since December 2005, all servers run OpenBSD exclusively.
172: The wireless network uses authpf.
1.116 grunk 173: They chose OpenBSD for its security and its powerful packet filter.
174: <p>
175:
1.94 millert 176: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
177: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
178: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
179: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers. The student
180: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
181: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
182: an experienced UNIX Administrator. The goal of the program is to
183: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
184: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
185: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
186: <p>
187:
1.56 louis 188: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
189: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
190: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
191: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
192: <p>
1.43 deraadt 193:
1.128 ian 194: <li>The <a href="http://www.rcmusic.ca/">Royal Conservatory of Music</a><br>
195: The RCM in Toronto, Canada is a 120-year-old national cultural
196: institution with an alumni base of around 800,000 Canadians who have
197: either studied through its system of teachers and examinations or taken
198: music lessons based on the RCM curriculum.
199: Recently, they have been branching out into other areas of the arts.
200: The RCM also operates its own
201: <a href="http://www.frederickharrismusic.com">publishing house</a> and an
202: <a href="http://www.rcmexaminations.org">online examination
203: scheduling service</a> for its students.
204: <p>
205: They operate a heterogeneous network that incorporates an IBM i520
206: (successor to the AS/400), multiple Sun boxen, Windows machines, and some
207: FreeBSD systems.
208: The first use of OpenBSD is to provide a secure router for the IT lab;
209: other applications are coming.
210: <p>
211:
1.119 grunk 212: <li><a href="http://sese.asu.edu/">School of Earth and Space Exploration,
213: Arizona State University, USA</a><br>
214: SESE uses OpenBSD for nearly every public-facing server we manage.
215: Being an academic institution, many of our systems run OpenBSD/sparc
216: and OpenBSD/macppc, including the public FTP/HTTP/AnonCVS server
217: <tt>mirror.sese.asu.edu</tt>. We also abuse OpenBSD on a number of
218: authpf'ing firewalls, proxies, and monitoring (nagios, cacti, nut, etc).
219: <p>
220:
1.56 louis 221: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
222: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
223: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
224: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
225: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
226: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
227: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
228: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
1.104 david 229: gateways</a> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
1.56 louis 230: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
231: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
232: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
233:
1.126 deanna 234: <li><a href="http://www.ucdavis.edu/">The University of California, Davis</a><br>
235: OpenBSD is used extensively in Schools, Colleges, and Departments at UC
236: Davis as part of the campus firewall solution. Additionally, OpenBSD
237: servers provide instructional lab fileserver redundancy with CARP, serve
238: up web content in Zope/Plone, proxy websites with Squid, and provide
239: networking services such as dhcp and DNS (djbdns).<p>
240:
1.96 millert 241: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
242: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
243: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
244: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
245: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
246: <p>
247:
1.56 louis 248: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
249: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
250: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
251: for many intensive research projects.
252: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
253: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
254: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
255: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
256: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
257: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
258: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
259: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
260: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
261: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
262: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
263: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
264: their primary operating system. <p>
265:
266: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
267: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
268: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
269: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
270: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 271:
1.56 louis 272: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
273: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
274: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 275: <p>
276:
1.82 millert 277: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
278: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
279: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
280: supports more than 1,000 students.
281: <p>
282:
1.92 millert 283: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
1.99 millert 284: Xscanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
1.92 millert 285: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
1.99 millert 286: relevant in todays post 9/11 world. Xscanners builds and designs
1.98 millert 287: secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas.
288: We also have Security Discussion boards.
1.92 millert 289: <p>
290:
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1.56 louis 292:
1.79 jufi 293: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 294:
1.79 jufi 295: <ul>
1.56 louis 296: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
297: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
298: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 299:
1.43 deraadt 300: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
301: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 302: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 303: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 304:
1.107 nick 305: <li><a href="http://www.armorlogic.com/">Armorlogic</a><br>
306: Proactive and positive information security company uses OpenBSD internally
307: for infrastructure purposes.
1.120 tom 308: Furthermore, Armorlogic uses OpenBSD as the core of its flagship
1.107 nick 309: product Profense, an all-purpose web application firewall.<p>
310:
1.123 deanna 311: <li><a href="http://www.cebatech.com/">CebaTech</a><br>
312: CebaTech Inc. develops tools and intellectual property modules that accelerate
313: the development and realization of software algorithms and complex communication
314: protocols into silicon. CebaTech uses OpenBSD as the source for development of
315: hardware modules that go into chips and FPGAs.<p>
316:
1.43 deraadt 317: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
318: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
319: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 320: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 321: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
322: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 323: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 324:
1.125 deanna 325: <li><a href="http://www.demosphere.com/">Demosphere International, Inc.</a><br>
326: Demosphere International, Inc. provides secure member registration, credit card
327: processing, and statistical content for soccer clubs, leagues, and national
328: governing bodies. OpenBSD is employed for redundant firewall failover capability
329: (CARP and pfsync), as well as dedicated servers for syslog (including webalyzer),
330: DNS, and email broadcasting using Postfix.<p>
331:
1.135 reyk 332: <li><a href="http://www.esdenera.com">Esdenera Networks GmbH</a><br>
333: Esdenera Networks is a vendor of OpenBSD-based security appliances,
334: virtual firewalls, and SDN products.<p>
335:
1.131 schwarze 336: <li><a href="http://www.genua.eu/">genua mbh</a><br>
337: genua, a company specialized in IT security based in Munich, uses OpenBSD
1.106 saad 338: for its sophisticated firewall solutions and VPN appliances.<p>
339:
1.56 louis 340: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
341: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
342: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
343: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
344: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
345: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
346: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
347: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
348: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
349: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
350: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 351:
1.94 millert 352: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
353: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
354: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90 ian 355: <p>
356:
1.123 deanna 357: <li><a href="http://www.loligo.com/">Loligo Cache Systems</a><br>
358: Loligo Cache Systems uses OpenBSD as a <em>'fire-and-forget'</em> platform for
359: hosting web, mail, and streaming video services. <i>"OpenBSD has provided us
360: with more than 10 years of worry-free infrastructure support and excellent
361: performance, with an ethos that just makes more sense to us than any
362: other platform."</i><p>
363:
1.94 millert 364: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
365: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
1.98 millert 366: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce solutions,
367: dedicated servers, database and application services.<p>
1.94 millert 368:
1.123 deanna 369: <li><a href="http://www.netthruput.com/">NetThruPut, Inc.</a><br>
370: NetThruPut, Inc. is the North American leader in internet-based
371: crude oil trading systems. OpenBSD is used for its fail-over abilities,
372: as well as bridging, intrusion detection and connecting remote offices
373: and users securely.<p>
374:
1.56 louis 375: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
376: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
377: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
378: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
379: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
380: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 381:
1.56 louis 382: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
383: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
384: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 385:
1.123 deanna 386: <li><a href="http://www.talkplus.com/">TalkPlus</a><br>
387: TalkPlus provides advanced Voice 2.0 services over mobile networks. The
388: company uses OpenBSD as secure mail and DNS platforms, in various places
389: where there are requirements of exposing systems to the public Internet.
390: <i>"We've found that OpenBSD had the best ease of installation and high
391: security we were looking for."</i><p>
392:
1.94 millert 393: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
1.98 millert 394: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider in Calgary. Many of our clients
1.120 tom 395: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to its speed,
1.94 millert 396: stability, and security.<p>
397:
1.78 millert 398: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
399: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
400: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
401: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
402: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
403: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 404:
1.56 louis 405: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
406: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 407: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 408: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
409: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
410: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
411: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
412: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
413: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
414: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92 millert 415: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
416:
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1.1 jkatz 418:
1.79 jufi 419: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 420: <p>
421: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
422: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
423: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
424: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 425: <ul>
1.18 deraadt 426:
1.71 ian 427: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 428: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.133 bentley 429: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
430: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
1.70 ian 431: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
432: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
433: <p>
434:
1.94 millert 435: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
436: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
437: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
438: behind the scenes security functions.
439: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
440: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
441: security services."
442: <p>
443:
1.110 grunk 444: <li><a href="http://www.bizintegrators.com/">BizIntegrators, Inc.</a><br>
445: BizIntegrators, a New York City based web and email hosting provider,
446: is using OpenBSD for their entire infrastructure as well as for most of
447: the dedicated servers they run for their customers. Servers running
448: OpenBSD include all web and email servers, DNS servers, MySQL and
449: PostgreSQL servers, firewalls and routers. OpenBSD is stable, secure
450: and very consistent, we love it.
451: <p>
452:
1.56 louis 453: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
454: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
455: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
456: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 457: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 458: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
459: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 460: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
461: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
462: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
463: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
464: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
465: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
466: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
467: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
468: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 469: <p>
470:
471: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
472: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
473: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
474: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
475: sites such as
476: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
477: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
478: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 479:
1.80 jufi 480: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 481: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
482: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
483:
1.94 millert 484: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
485: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
486: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
487: routers.
488: <p>
489:
1.80 jufi 490: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 491: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 492: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
493: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
494: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 495: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 496:
1.122 grunk 497: <li><a href="http://www.reverse.net/">Reverse.Net (former Elixor Networks)</a><br>
498: Reverse.Net uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
1.56 louis 499: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
500: <p>
1.25 angelos 501:
1.56 louis 502: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
503: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 504: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 505: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
506: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
507: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
508: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
509: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 510: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
1.138 ! mmcc 511: handles email storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
1.104 david 512: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<p>
1.27 ian 513:
1.63 louis 514: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
515: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
516: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
517: <p>
518:
1.43 deraadt 519: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 520: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 521: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 522: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
523: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
524: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
525: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 526: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
527: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 528: <p>
1.34 deraadt 529:
1.94 millert 530: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
531: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
532: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD. We find
533: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
534: to offer services.
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
538: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
539: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
540: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
541: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
542: pharmaceutical firm.
543: <p>
544:
1.56 louis 545: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
546: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
547: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
548: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
549: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
550: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
551: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
552: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
553: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
554:
1.111 grunk 555: <li><a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/">M5 Internet Hosting</a><br>
556: M5 is a commercial Hosting, Colocation and Dedicated Server
557: provider. They use OpenBSD for security devices including firewalls
558: (pf), bandwidth control (pf and altq), load balancing (pf), IDS and
559: front line spam filtering systems (postfix, spamd). They also offer
560: <a href="http://www.m5hosting.com/openbsd-dedicated-server.php">OpenBSD dedicated servers</a>
561: for rent.<br>
562: M5 has many customers who use these
563: OpenBSD systems as development platforms, web and email hosting
564: platforms, security auditing launch points, and shell boxes to get
565: around unfriendly security policies at their places of employment.<br>
566: Michael J. McCafferty, Principal and Security Engineer of the company
567: says about OpenBSD: "Thank you very much for an awesome OS !"<p>
568:
1.105 ian 569: <li><a href="http://www.meteksan.net.tr/">Meteksan Net
570: Communication Services Inc.</a><br>
571: Probably Turkey's largest corporate-only ISP, Meteksan uses OpenBSD
572: in many of its own mission critical services and also creates
573: turnkey network security solutions built upon OpenBSD to customers
574: from government and private sector.
575: <p>
576:
1.94 millert 577: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
578: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
579: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
580: <p>
581:
1.80 jufi 582: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 583: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
584: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
585: sites.<p>
586:
587: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
588: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
589: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
590: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
591: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
592: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
593: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
594: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
595:
596: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
597: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
1.138 ! mmcc 598: DNS and over 1000 email users in their community just West of
1.56 louis 599: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
600: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
601: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
602: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
603: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
604: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
605: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
606: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
607:
1.61 louis 608: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
609: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
610: <p>
611:
1.101 jose 612: <li><a href="http://www.tronicguard.com/">TronicGuard GmbH</a><br>
613: This ISP and hosting company located in Germany uses OpenBSD for
614: hosting and all-purpose systems, as well as security appliances like
615: firewalls and database-servers to small and midrange companies.
616: <p>
617:
1.129 tobias 618: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
619: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
1.76 millert 620: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
621: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
622: keystone in our security strategy."
623: <p>
624:
1.94 millert 625: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
626: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
627: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
628: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
629: their business DSL customers.
1.93 millert 630: <p>
631:
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