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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>
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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:
1.49 ! louis 70: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
! 71: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
! 72: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
! 73: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
! 74: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
! 75: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
! 76: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
! 77: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
! 78: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
! 79:
1.43 deraadt 80: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
81: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
82: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
83: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
84: processing each month.<p>
85:
1.48 louis 86: <li><a href="http://www.ooi.net/">OhioOnline, Inc.</a><br>
87: This ISP and Web hosting company uses OpenBSD for
88: networked revision control and as a <a href="http://home.ooi.net/">technology
89: playground</a> for their Web developers. Additionally, several developers run
90: OpenBSD on their personal workstations and laptops. "We find OpenBSD to be a
91: reliable, well-supported Unix that runs well under workstation and server
92: loads".<p>
93:
1.43 deraadt 94: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
95: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro
96: machines for network monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL
97: connections), web site hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to
98: be both fast and secure.<p>
99:
100: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
101: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
102: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
103: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
104: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
105: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
106: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
107: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
108: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
109:
110: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
111: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
112: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
113: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
114: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
115: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
116: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
117: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
118: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
119: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
120: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
1.12 ivan 121:
1.43 deraadt 122: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
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1.3 jkatz 124: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 125: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 126: sites.<p>
1.1 jkatz 127:
1.43 deraadt 128: <li><a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">The Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
129: This laboratory at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
1.11 rees 130: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 131: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 132: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 133: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
134: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
135: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
136: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 137: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 138: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
139: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
140: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
141: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
142: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 143: their primary operating system. <p>
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1.43 deraadt 145: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
1.32 beck 146: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
147: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
148: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
149: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
150: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
151: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
152: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
153: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
154: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
155: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 156: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
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1.43 deraadt 158: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
159: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 160: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
161: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
162: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 163: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 164:
1.43 deraadt 165: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
166: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
167: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
1.25 angelos 168: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
169: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
170: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
171: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
172: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
173: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
174: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 175: committed to."<p>
1.25 angelos 176:
1.43 deraadt 177: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
178: This maker of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 179: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
1.27 ian 180:
1.43 deraadt 181: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
182: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
183: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
184: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
185: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
186: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
187: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
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1.46 louis 190: <li>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic<br>
191: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
192: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
193: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
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