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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>
                     18:
                     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> .
                     21: <br><br>
                     22:
                     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>
1.1       jkatz      26: <hr>
                     27: <ul>
                     28:
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. &quot;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&quot; , 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>
1.9       johns      65:
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
1.40    ! louis      69: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure.<p>
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1.40    ! louis      71: <li>
        !            72: <a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a> produces an OpenBSD
1.1       jkatz      73: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
1.40    ! louis      74: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
        !            75: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
        !            76: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
        !            77: supported, but only on the m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium
        !            78: and Alpha cpu versions are to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is
        !            79: also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of
        !            80: the supported platforms.<p>
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        !            83: <li>
        !            84: <a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a>, North Carolina,
        !            85: USA, is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web, DNS and over 1000 e-mail
        !            86: users in their community just West of Research Triangle. There is a mix
        !            87: of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and PowerPC systems in use, with more customer
        !            88: sub-net servers coming on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
        !            89: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a> and
        !            90: <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
        !            91: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
        !            92: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of disk
        !            93: space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p></li>
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>
1.18      deraadt   136:
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>
1.24      deraadt   142:
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>
1.25      angelos   154:
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:
1.37      louis     159: <li>
                    160: <a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a> uses OpenBSD to run
                    161: their free shell server, as well as other systems.  The shell server, a
                    162: single AMD K6/233, handles well over 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD
                    163: after having constant security problems with other operating systems", says
                    164: Hobbiton's Leif Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has
                    165: not been a problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
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