Annotation of www/users.html, Revision 1.47
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1.41 deraadt 10: <h2><font color=#e00000>Users</font><hr></h2>
1.47 ! ian 11: The term "users" has several connotations. <EM>End users</EM> often
! 12: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
! 13: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
! 14: is with one of our
! 15: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
! 16: <p>
! 17: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
! 18: and that is the subject of the rest of this page.
1.38 louis 19: These companies and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
20: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
21: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers. University
22: researchers and IT department developers often have similar
23: security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.<p>
24:
25: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
26: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
27: <br><br>
28:
29: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
30: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
31: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 32: <hr>
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1.27 ian 35:
1.43 deraadt 36: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
37: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
38: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
39: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
40: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
41: military and government agency locations.<p>
42:
43: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
44: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
45: and network testing systems.<p>
46:
47: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 48:
49: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
50: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
51: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
1.45 deraadt 52: sites such as <a href="http://www.mitsubishicars.com">mitsubishicars.com</a>,
1.44 deraadt 53: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
54: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
1.33 deraadt 55: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.23 jkatz 56:
1.43 deraadt 57: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
58: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 59: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 60: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 61:
1.43 deraadt 62: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
63: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
64: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 65: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 66: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
67: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.43 deraadt 68: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
69:
70: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
71: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
72: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
73: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
74: processing each month.<p>
75:
76: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
77: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro
78: machines for network monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL
79: connections), web site hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to
80: be both fast and secure.<p>
81:
82: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
83: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
84: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
85: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
86: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
87: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
88: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
89: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
90: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
91:
92: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
93: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
94: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
95: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
96: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
97: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
98: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
99: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
100: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
101: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
102: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
1.12 ivan 103:
1.43 deraadt 104: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.29 deraadt 105:
1.3 jkatz 106: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 107: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 108: sites.<p>
1.1 jkatz 109:
1.43 deraadt 110: <li><a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">The Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
111: This laboratory at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
1.11 rees 112: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 113: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 114: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 115: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
116: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
117: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
118: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 119: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 120: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
121: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
122: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
123: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
124: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 125: their primary operating system. <p>
1.18 deraadt 126:
1.43 deraadt 127: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
1.32 beck 128: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
129: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
130: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
131: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
132: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
133: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
134: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
135: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
136: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
137: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 138: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
1.1 jkatz 139:
1.43 deraadt 140: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
141: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 142: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
143: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
144: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 145: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 146:
1.43 deraadt 147: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
148: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
149: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
1.25 angelos 150: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
151: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
152: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
153: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
154: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
155: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
156: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 157: committed to."<p>
1.25 angelos 158:
1.43 deraadt 159: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
160: This maker of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 161: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
1.27 ian 162:
1.43 deraadt 163: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
164: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
165: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
166: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
167: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
168: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
169: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 170: <p>
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1.46 louis 172: <li>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic<br>
173: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
174: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
175: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
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