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1.38 ! louis 13: These companies and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
! 14: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
! 15: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers. University
! 16: researchers and IT department developers often have similar
! 17: security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.<p>
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! 19: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
! 20: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
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! 23: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
! 24: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
! 25: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
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27: <ul>
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1.37 louis 29: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a>,
1.36 deraadt 30: a network and computer security firm, uses OpenBSD for high speed
31: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data
32: warehousing applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc
1.35 deraadt 33: is located in the Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at
1.37 louis 34: several undisclosed military and government agency locations.<p>
1.35 deraadt 35:
1.27 ian 36: <li>Software giant <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</A>
37: uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls and network
1.33 deraadt 38: testing systems.<p>
1.27 ian 39:
1.23 jkatz 40: <li><A HREF="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</A> uses
41: OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services including WWW, FTP and
42: email as well as for network monitoring at its data centers in New York
43: and Amsterdam. Even larger web sites such as
44: <A HREF="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</A>,
45: <A HREF="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</A> and others are no
1.33 deraadt 46: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.23 jkatz 47:
1.22 jkatz 48: <li><A HREF="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</A> the gigabit ethernet
49: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 50: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 51:
1.12 ivan 52: <li><A HREF="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</A> an Information
53: Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main
1.13 deraadt 54: platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 55: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 56: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
57: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.33 deraadt 58: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.</li><p>
1.12 ivan 59:
1.3 jkatz 60: <li><a href=http://www.secnet.com>Secure Networks, Inc.</a>
61: has been using OpenBSD as their core development
1.1 jkatz 62: platform for their flagship product, Ballista. According to a corporate
63: representative, "it [OpenBSD] has proven to be very stable, and quite well
64: supported for a free operating system." In addition, it should be noted
65: that code from the Ballista project developed on OpenBSD systems was
1.33 deraadt 66: easily ported to Irix and Solaris. <p>
1.1 jkatz 67:
1.10 johns 68: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 69: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
1.30 deraadt 70: planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces via
71: SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
1.33 deraadt 72: processing each month. <p>
1.9 johns 73:
1.15 deraadt 74: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a>, an ISP in Bend,
75: Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro machines for network
76: monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL connections), web site
1.33 deraadt 77: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure..<p>
1.15 deraadt 78:
1.1 jkatz 79: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
80: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
81: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
82: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
83: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
1.26 espie 84: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
1.1 jkatz 85: currently working. <br>
86: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
87: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
88: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
89: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
90: not-too-distant future.<br>
91: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
1.33 deraadt 92: supporting the organization as it grows." <p>
1.1 jkatz 93:
1.29 deraadt 94: <li>RTMX Networking Services, North Carolina, USA, is using OpenBSD on
95: multiple servers for Web, DNS and nearly 1000 e-mail users in their
96: community just West of Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6,
97: MicroSPARC-II and PowerPC systems in use, with more servers coming
98: on-line. RTMX.NET is preparing to host an OpenBSD ftp site, and a cvs
1.33 deraadt 99: repository through these resources.<p>
1.29 deraadt 100:
1.3 jkatz 101: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
102: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 103: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 104: sites.<p>
1.1 jkatz 105:
1.11 rees 106: <li>The
107: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
108: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
109: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 110: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 111: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 112: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
113: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
114: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
115: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 116: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 117: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
118: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
119: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
120: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
121: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 122: their primary operating system. <p>
1.18 deraadt 123:
1.32 beck 124: <li>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>
125: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
126: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
127: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
128: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
129: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
130: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
131: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
132: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
133: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
134: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 135: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
1.1 jkatz 136:
1.18 deraadt 137: <li>webFreaks.com, LLC is a new startup company of 3 employess in Silicon
138: Valley. Our shell account server currently has 300-400 users running on
139: AMD and Cyrix CPUs connected to the internet via 384K ADSL (there are 2
140: locations in Mountain View and Cupertino, CA, each connected with ADSL).
1.33 deraadt 141: We also custom design webpages and banner ads.<p>
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1.24 deraadt 143: <li>Crown.Net is an internet service provider running almost completely on
144: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
145: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
146: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 147: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.25 angelos 149: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a>, a large
150: Information Security and Internet development firm located in
151: Toronto, Canada, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
152: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
153: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
154: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
155: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
156: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
157: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
158: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 159: committed to."<p>
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1.27 ian 161: <li><A HREF="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</A>,
162: makes of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 163: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
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1.37 louis 165: <li>
166: <a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a> uses OpenBSD to run
167: their free shell server, as well as other systems. The shell server, a
168: single AMD K6/233, handles well over 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD
169: after having constant security problems with other operating systems", says
170: Hobbiton's Leif Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has
171: not been a problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
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