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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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1.35 ! deraadt 26: <li><a href=http://www.netsec.net>Network Security Technologies, Inc</a>
! 27: is located in the Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at
! 28: several undisclosed military and government agency locations.</a>
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1.27 ian 30: <li>Software giant <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</A>
31: uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls and network
1.33 deraadt 32: testing systems.<p>
1.27 ian 33:
1.23 jkatz 34: <li><A HREF="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</A> uses
35: OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services including WWW, FTP and
36: email as well as for network monitoring at its data centers in New York
37: and Amsterdam. Even larger web sites such as
38: <A HREF="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</A>,
39: <A HREF="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</A> and others are no
1.33 deraadt 40: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.23 jkatz 41:
1.22 jkatz 42: <li><A HREF="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</A> the gigabit ethernet
43: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 44: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 45:
1.12 ivan 46: <li><A HREF="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</A> an Information
47: Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main
1.13 deraadt 48: platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 49: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 50: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
51: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.33 deraadt 52: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.</li><p>
1.12 ivan 53:
1.3 jkatz 54: <li><a href=http://www.secnet.com>Secure Networks, Inc.</a>
55: has been using OpenBSD as their core development
1.1 jkatz 56: platform for their flagship product, Ballista. According to a corporate
57: representative, "it [OpenBSD] has proven to be very stable, and quite well
58: supported for a free operating system." In addition, it should be noted
59: that code from the Ballista project developed on OpenBSD systems was
1.33 deraadt 60: easily ported to Irix and Solaris. <p>
1.1 jkatz 61:
1.10 johns 62: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 63: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
1.30 deraadt 64: planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces via
65: SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
1.33 deraadt 66: processing each month. <p>
1.9 johns 67:
1.15 deraadt 68: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a>, an ISP in Bend,
69: Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro machines for network
70: monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL connections), web site
1.33 deraadt 71: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure..<p>
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1.1 jkatz 73: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
74: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
75: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
76: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
77: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
1.26 espie 78: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
1.1 jkatz 79: currently working. <br>
80: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
81: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
82: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
83: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
84: not-too-distant future.<br>
85: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
1.33 deraadt 86: supporting the organization as it grows." <p>
1.1 jkatz 87:
1.29 deraadt 88: <li>RTMX Networking Services, North Carolina, USA, is using OpenBSD on
89: multiple servers for Web, DNS and nearly 1000 e-mail users in their
90: community just West of Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6,
91: MicroSPARC-II and PowerPC systems in use, with more servers coming
92: on-line. RTMX.NET is preparing to host an OpenBSD ftp site, and a cvs
1.33 deraadt 93: repository through these resources.<p>
1.29 deraadt 94:
1.3 jkatz 95: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
96: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 97: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 98: sites.<p>
1.1 jkatz 99:
1.11 rees 100: <li>The
101: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
102: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
103: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 104: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 105: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 106: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
107: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
108: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
109: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 110: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 111: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
112: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
113: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
114: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
115: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 116: their primary operating system. <p>
1.18 deraadt 117:
1.32 beck 118: <li>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>
119: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
120: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
121: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
122: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
123: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
124: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
125: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
126: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
127: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
128: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 129: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
1.1 jkatz 130:
1.18 deraadt 131: <li>webFreaks.com, LLC is a new startup company of 3 employess in Silicon
132: Valley. Our shell account server currently has 300-400 users running on
133: AMD and Cyrix CPUs connected to the internet via 384K ADSL (there are 2
134: locations in Mountain View and Cupertino, CA, each connected with ADSL).
1.33 deraadt 135: We also custom design webpages and banner ads.<p>
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1.24 deraadt 137: <li>Crown.Net is an internet service provider running almost completely on
138: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
139: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
140: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 141: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.25 angelos 143: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a>, a large
144: Information Security and Internet development firm located in
145: Toronto, Canada, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
146: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
147: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
148: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
149: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
150: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
151: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
152: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 153: committed to."<p>
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1.27 ian 155: <li><A HREF="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</A>,
156: makes of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 157: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
1.27 ian 158:
1.34 deraadt 159: <li><a href="http://Hobbiton.org">Hobbiton.org</a>
160: uses OpenBSD as the operating system on their free shell
161: server, as well as other computers. We handle well over 10,000 users on a
162: single AMD K6/233 with OpenBSD. We tried OpenBSD after having constant
163: security problems with other operating systems. Since then, security in
164: the operating system has not been a problem, and as an added bonus, the
165: system has been much more stable.<p>
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