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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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:
1.10 johns 60: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 61: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
1.30 deraadt 62: planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces via
63: SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
1.33 deraadt 64: processing each month. <p>
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1.15 deraadt 66: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a>, an ISP in Bend,
67: Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro machines for network
68: monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL connections), web site
1.33 deraadt 69: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure..<p>
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1.1 jkatz 71: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
72: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
73: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
74: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
75: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
1.26 espie 76: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
1.1 jkatz 77: currently working. <br>
78: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
79: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
80: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
81: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
82: not-too-distant future.<br>
83: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
1.33 deraadt 84: supporting the organization as it grows." <p>
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1.29 deraadt 86: <li>RTMX Networking Services, North Carolina, USA, is using OpenBSD on
87: multiple servers for Web, DNS and nearly 1000 e-mail users in their
88: community just West of Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6,
89: MicroSPARC-II and PowerPC systems in use, with more servers coming
90: on-line. RTMX.NET is preparing to host an OpenBSD ftp site, and a cvs
1.33 deraadt 91: repository through these resources.<p>
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1.3 jkatz 93: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
94: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 95: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 96: sites.<p>
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1.11 rees 98: <li>The
99: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
100: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
101: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 102: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 103: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 104: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
105: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
106: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
107: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 108: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 109: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
110: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
111: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
112: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
113: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 114: their primary operating system. <p>
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1.32 beck 116: <li>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>
117: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
118: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
119: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
120: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
121: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
122: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
123: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
124: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
125: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
126: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 127: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
1.1 jkatz 128:
1.18 deraadt 129: <li>webFreaks.com, LLC is a new startup company of 3 employess in Silicon
130: Valley. Our shell account server currently has 300-400 users running on
131: AMD and Cyrix CPUs connected to the internet via 384K ADSL (there are 2
132: locations in Mountain View and Cupertino, CA, each connected with ADSL).
1.33 deraadt 133: We also custom design webpages and banner ads.<p>
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1.24 deraadt 135: <li>Crown.Net is an internet service provider running almost completely on
136: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
137: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
138: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 139: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.25 angelos 141: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a>, a large
142: Information Security and Internet development firm located in
143: Toronto, Canada, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
144: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
145: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
146: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
147: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
148: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
149: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
150: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 151: committed to."<p>
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1.27 ian 153: <li><A HREF="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</A>,
154: makes of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 155: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
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1.37 louis 157: <li>
158: <a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a> uses OpenBSD to run
159: their free shell server, as well as other systems. The shell server, a
160: single AMD K6/233, handles well over 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD
161: after having constant security problems with other operating systems", says
162: Hobbiton's Leif Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has
163: not been a problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
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