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1.41 ! deraadt 10: <h2><font color=#e00000>Users</font><hr></h2>
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1.38 louis 12: These companies and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
13: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
14: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers. University
15: researchers and IT department developers often have similar
16: security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.<p>
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18: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
19: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
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22: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
23: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
24: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 25: <hr>
26: <ul>
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1.37 louis 28: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a>,
1.36 deraadt 29: a network and computer security firm, uses OpenBSD for high speed
30: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data
31: warehousing applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc
1.35 deraadt 32: is located in the Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at
1.37 louis 33: several undisclosed military and government agency locations.<p>
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1.27 ian 35: <li>Software giant <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</A>
36: uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls and network
1.33 deraadt 37: testing systems.<p>
1.27 ian 38:
1.23 jkatz 39: <li><A HREF="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</A> uses
40: OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services including WWW, FTP and
41: email as well as for network monitoring at its data centers in New York
42: and Amsterdam. Even larger web sites such as
43: <A HREF="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</A>,
44: <A HREF="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</A> and others are no
1.33 deraadt 45: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.23 jkatz 46:
1.22 jkatz 47: <li><A HREF="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</A> the gigabit ethernet
48: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 49: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 50:
1.12 ivan 51: <li><A HREF="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</A> an Information
52: Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main
1.13 deraadt 53: platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 54: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 55: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
56: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.33 deraadt 57: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.</li><p>
1.12 ivan 58:
1.10 johns 59: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota</a> uses
1.9 johns 60: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
1.30 deraadt 61: planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces via
62: SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
1.33 deraadt 63: processing each month. <p>
1.9 johns 64:
1.15 deraadt 65: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a>, an ISP in Bend,
66: Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro machines for network
67: monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL connections), web site
1.40 louis 68: hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to be both fast and secure.<p>
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1.40 louis 70: <li>
71: <a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a> produces an OpenBSD
1.1 jkatz 72: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
1.40 louis 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
76: supported, but only on the m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium
77: and Alpha cpu versions are to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is
78: also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of
79: the supported platforms.<p>
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82: <li>
83: <a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a>, North Carolina,
84: USA, is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web, DNS and over 1000 e-mail
85: users in their community just West of Research Triangle. There is a mix
86: of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and PowerPC systems in use, with more customer
87: sub-net servers coming on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
88: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a> and
89: <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
90: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
91: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of disk
92: space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p></li>
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1.3 jkatz 94: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
95: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 96: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 97: sites.<p>
1.1 jkatz 98:
1.11 rees 99: <li>The
100: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">Center for Information Technology Integration</a>
101: (CITI) at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
102: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 103: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 104: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 105: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
106: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
107: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
108: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 109: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 110: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
111: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
112: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
113: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
114: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 115: their primary operating system. <p>
1.18 deraadt 116:
1.32 beck 117: <li>The <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>
118: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
119: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
120: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
121: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
122: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
123: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
124: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
125: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
126: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
127: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 128: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
1.1 jkatz 129:
1.18 deraadt 130: <li>webFreaks.com, LLC is a new startup company of 3 employess in Silicon
131: Valley. Our shell account server currently has 300-400 users running on
132: AMD and Cyrix CPUs connected to the internet via 384K ADSL (there are 2
133: locations in Mountain View and Cupertino, CA, each connected with ADSL).
1.33 deraadt 134: We also custom design webpages and banner ads.<p>
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1.24 deraadt 136: <li>Crown.Net is an internet service provider running almost completely on
137: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
138: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
139: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 140: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.25 angelos 142: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a>, a large
143: Information Security and Internet development firm located in
144: Toronto, Canada, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
145: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
146: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
147: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
148: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
149: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
150: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
151: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 152: committed to."<p>
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1.27 ian 154: <li><A HREF="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</A>,
155: makes of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 156: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
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1.37 louis 158: <li>
159: <a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a> uses OpenBSD to run
160: their free shell server, as well as other systems. The shell server, a
161: single AMD K6/233, handles well over 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD
162: after having constant security problems with other operating systems", says
163: Hobbiton's Leif Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has
164: not been a problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
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