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