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13: OpenBSD is not just a kernel hackers' operating system. Several
14: corporations, universities, and ISP's are using OpenBSD to serve their IT,
15: research and security needs. The following list and associated statistics
16: should speak for themselves about the reliability and integrity of an
17: OpenBSD system.<br><br>
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19: <i><b>NOTE:</b> Some companies for security purposes have asked that we do
20: not disclose the name of their business. To comply with these wishes you
21: may notice "Undisclosed Company" in some of our listings.</i><br><br>
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1.27 ian 26: <li>Software giant <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</A>
27: uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls and network
28: testing systems.
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1.23 jkatz 30: <li><A HREF="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</A> uses
31: OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services including WWW, FTP and
32: email as well as for network monitoring at its data centers in New York
33: and Amsterdam. Even larger web sites such as
34: <A HREF="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</A>,
35: <A HREF="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</A> and others are no
36: challenge for OpenBSD.
37:
1.22 jkatz 38: <li><A HREF="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</A> the gigabit ethernet
39: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
40: from testbeds to gateways.
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1.12 ivan 42: <li><A HREF="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</A> an Information
43: Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main
1.13 deraadt 44: platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 45: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 46: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
47: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.12 ivan 48: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.</li>
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1.3 jkatz 50: <li><a href=http://www.secnet.com>Secure Networks, Inc.</a>
51: has been using OpenBSD as their core development
1.1 jkatz 52: platform for their flagship product, Ballista. According to a corporate
53: representative, "it [OpenBSD] has proven to be very stable, and quite well
54: supported for a free operating system." In addition, it should be noted
55: that code from the Ballista project developed on OpenBSD systems was
56: easily ported to Irix and Solaris.
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1.10 johns 58: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 59: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
60: planning. They query 32,000 different interfaces via SNMP, logging
61: SNMP data to concatenated disk for processing each month.
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1.15 deraadt 63: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a>, an ISP in Bend,
64: Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro machines for network
65: monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL connections), web site
66: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure..
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1.1 jkatz 68: <li><a href="http://www.mac.edu">MacMurray College</a> of Jacksonville,
1.8 jkatz 69: Illinois is using a P5/150 as its main server for over 600 students and
70: 100 staff and faculty users. This system is also planned to be used by
1.14 todd 71: the MacMurray Computer Science department for both the instruction of
1.8 jkatz 72: programming and administration. By using OpenBSD on existing hardware,
1.1 jkatz 73: MacMurray plans to save the thousands needed to keep a current version of
74: AIX running on their RS/6000 server.
75:
76: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
77: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
78: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
79: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
80: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
1.26 espie 81: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
1.1 jkatz 82: currently working. <br>
83: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
84: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
85: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
86: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
87: not-too-distant future.<br>
88: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
89: supporting the organization as it grows."
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1.3 jkatz 91: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
92: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 93: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
94: sites.
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96: <li>Felix Schröter is developing a generic IP tunneling program which
1.26 espie 97: will be able to tunnel IP and other protocols (OS dependent), through a
1.1 jkatz 98: streams based connections. The software can optionally encrypt and
99: integrity check the packets it transfers. This software is aimed
100: as a solution for VPN (virtual private networks).<br>
101: Felix is using OpenBSD because of the pseudo-device "tun" which makes
102: getting IP and other protocol's packets from the kernel quite easily.<br>
103: Licensing negotiations for this product are still underway. Felix hopes to
1.14 todd 104: provide a free license (binary and source) for non-commercial use.
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1.3 jkatz 106: <li><a href=http://www.tal.net>TAL Wireless Networks, Inc.</a>
107: uses OpenBSD as a platform for multiple
1.1 jkatz 108: firewall, http proxy and dialup and servers across California. Some of
109: these machines were formerly running the commercial version of BSD,
110: BSD/OS. TALNET S.A., the Argentina based offices of TALNET are using
111: OpenBSD as a mail server, firewall and http proxy.
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113: <li>An undisclosed company is using OpenBSD on a Sparc 1+ as a private
114: firewall and WWW server for 50-100 internal client workstations.
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1.11 rees 116: <li>The
117: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
118: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
119: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 120: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 ! wvdputte 121: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 122: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
123: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
124: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
125: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 ! wvdputte 126: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 127: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
128: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
129: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
130: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
131: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
132: their primary operating system.
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1.17 beck 134: <li>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a> uses
135: OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers in front of labs and
136: student residences, Kerberos servers, and web based
137: course services using <A href="http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/">WebCT</A>.
1.20 ryker 138: The Department of Computing Science is using a 20 seat OpenBSD lab for
139: teaching introductory Unix and programming courses.
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1.18 deraadt 141: <li>webFreaks.com, LLC is a new startup company of 3 employess in Silicon
142: Valley. Our shell account server currently has 300-400 users running on
143: AMD and Cyrix CPUs connected to the internet via 384K ADSL (there are 2
144: locations in Mountain View and Cupertino, CA, each connected with ADSL).
145: We also custom design webpages and banner ads.
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1.24 deraadt 147: <li>Crown.Net is an internet service provider running almost completely on
148: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
149: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
150: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
151: running OpenBSD/i386.
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1.25 angelos 153: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a>, a large
154: Information Security and Internet development firm located in
155: Toronto, Canada, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
156: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
157: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
158: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
159: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
160: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
161: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
162: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
163: committed to."
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1.27 ian 165: <li><A HREF="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</A>,
166: makes of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
167: gateway, FTP, and web services.
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