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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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21:
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>
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1.27 ian 28:
1.43 ! deraadt 29: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
! 30: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
! 31: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
! 32: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
! 33: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
! 34: military and government agency locations.<p>
! 35:
! 36: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
! 37: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
! 38: and network testing systems.<p>
! 39:
! 40: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
! 41: This web farm company uses
1.23 jkatz 42: OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services including WWW, FTP and
43: email as well as for network monitoring at its data centers in New York
44: and Amsterdam. Even larger web sites such as
45: <A HREF="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</A>,
46: <A HREF="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</A> and others are no
1.33 deraadt 47: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.23 jkatz 48:
1.43 ! deraadt 49: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
! 50: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 51: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 52: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
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1.43 ! deraadt 54: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
! 55: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
! 56: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 57: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 58: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
59: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.43 ! deraadt 60: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
! 61:
! 62: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
! 63: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
! 64: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
! 65: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
! 66: processing each month.<p>
! 67:
! 68: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
! 69: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro
! 70: machines for network monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL
! 71: connections), web site hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to
! 72: be both fast and secure.<p>
! 73:
! 74: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
! 75: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
! 76: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
! 77: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
! 78: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
! 79: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
! 80: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
! 81: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
! 82: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
! 83:
! 84: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
! 85: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
! 86: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
! 87: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
! 88: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
! 89: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
! 90: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
! 91: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
! 92: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
! 93: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
! 94: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
1.12 ivan 95:
1.43 ! deraadt 96: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.29 deraadt 97:
1.3 jkatz 98: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 99: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 100: sites.<p>
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1.43 ! deraadt 102: <li><a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">The Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
! 103: This laboratory at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
1.11 rees 104: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 105: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 106: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 107: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
108: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
109: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
110: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 111: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 112: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
113: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
114: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
115: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
116: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 117: their primary operating system. <p>
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1.43 ! deraadt 119: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
1.32 beck 120: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
121: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
122: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
123: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
124: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
125: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
126: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
127: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
128: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
129: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 130: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
1.1 jkatz 131:
1.43 ! deraadt 132: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
! 133: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 134: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
135: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
136: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 137: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.43 ! deraadt 139: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
! 140: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
! 141: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
1.25 angelos 142: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
143: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
144: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
145: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
146: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
147: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
148: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 149: committed to."<p>
1.25 angelos 150:
1.43 ! deraadt 151: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
! 152: This maker of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 153: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
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1.43 ! deraadt 155: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
! 156: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
! 157: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
! 158: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
! 159: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
! 160: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
! 161: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
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