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17: OpenBSD is not just a kernel hackers' operating system. Several
18: corporations, universities, and ISP's are using OpenBSD to serve their IT,
19: research and security needs. The following list and associated statistics
20: should speak for themselves about the reliability and integrity of an
21: OpenBSD system.<br><br>
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23: <i><b>NOTE:</b> Some companies for security purposes have asked that we do
24: not disclose the name of their business. To comply with these wishes you
25: may notice "Undisclosed Company" in some of our listings.</i><br><br>
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1.12 ivan 31: <li><A HREF="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</A> an Information
32: Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main
1.13 deraadt 33: platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 34: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 35: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
36: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.12 ivan 37: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.</li>
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1.3 jkatz 39: <li><a href=http://www.secnet.com>Secure Networks, Inc.</a>
40: has been using OpenBSD as their core development
1.1 jkatz 41: platform for their flagship product, Ballista. According to a corporate
42: representative, "it [OpenBSD] has proven to be very stable, and quite well
43: supported for a free operating system." In addition, it should be noted
44: that code from the Ballista project developed on OpenBSD systems was
45: easily ported to Irix and Solaris.
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1.10 johns 47: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 48: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
49: planning. They query 32,000 different interfaces via SNMP, logging
50: SNMP data to concatenated disk for processing each month.
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1.15 deraadt 52: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a>, an ISP in Bend,
53: Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro machines for network
54: monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL connections), web site
55: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure..
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1.1 jkatz 57: <li><a href="http://www.mac.edu">MacMurray College</a> of Jacksonville,
1.8 jkatz 58: Illinois is using a P5/150 as its main server for over 600 students and
59: 100 staff and faculty users. This system is also planned to be used by
1.14 todd 60: the MacMurray Computer Science department for both the instruction of
1.8 jkatz 61: programming and administration. By using OpenBSD on existing hardware,
1.1 jkatz 62: MacMurray plans to save the thousands needed to keep a current version of
63: AIX running on their RS/6000 server.
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65: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
66: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
67: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
68: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
69: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
70: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
71: currently working. <br>
72: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
73: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
74: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
75: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
76: not-too-distant future.<br>
77: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
78: supporting the organization as it grows."
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1.3 jkatz 80: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
81: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 82: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
83: sites.
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85: <li>Felix Schröter is developing a generic IP tunneling program which
86: will be able to tunnel IP and other protocols (OS dependant), through a
87: streams based connections. The software can optionally encrypt and
88: integrity check the packets it transfers. This software is aimed
89: as a solution for VPN (virtual private networks).<br>
90: Felix is using OpenBSD because of the pseudo-device "tun" which makes
91: getting IP and other protocol's packets from the kernel quite easily.<br>
92: Licensing negotiations for this product are still underway. Felix hopes to
1.14 todd 93: provide a free license (binary and source) for non-commercial use.
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1.3 jkatz 95: <li><a href=http://www.tal.net>TAL Wireless Networks, Inc.</a>
96: uses OpenBSD as a platform for multiple
1.1 jkatz 97: firewall, http proxy and dialup and servers across California. Some of
98: these machines were formerly running the commercial version of BSD,
99: BSD/OS. TALNET S.A., the Argentina based offices of TALNET are using
100: OpenBSD as a mail server, firewall and http proxy.
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102: <li>An undisclosed company is using OpenBSD on a Sparc 1+ as a private
103: firewall and WWW server for 50-100 internal client workstations.
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1.11 rees 105: <li>The
106: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
107: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
108: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 109: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.11 rees 110: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
111: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
112: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
113: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
114: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
115: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 116: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
117: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
118: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
119: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
120: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
121: their primary operating system.
1.17 ! beck 122: <li>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a> uses
! 123: OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers in front of labs and
! 124: student residences, Kerberos servers, and web based
! 125: course services using <A href="http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/">WebCT</A>.
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