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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:
1.50 ! louis 36: <li><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a><br>
! 37: Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works
! 38: to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of
! 39: Human Rights and other international standards.
! 40: Amnesty International is using OpenBSD for network firewalls and for
! 41: Virtual Private Networks (IPSec) between its sections around the world.<p>
! 42:
1.43 deraadt 43: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
44: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
45: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
46: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
47: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
48: military and government agency locations.<p>
49:
50: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
51: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
52: and network testing systems.<p>
53:
54: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 55:
56: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
57: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
58: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
1.45 deraadt 59: sites such as <a href="http://www.mitsubishicars.com">mitsubishicars.com</a>,
1.44 deraadt 60: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
61: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
1.33 deraadt 62: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.23 jkatz 63:
1.43 deraadt 64: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
65: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 66: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 67: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 68:
1.43 deraadt 69: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
70: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
71: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 72: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 73: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
74: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.43 deraadt 75: availability are major concerns" , says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
76:
1.49 louis 77: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
78: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
79: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
80: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
81: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
82: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
83: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
84: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
85: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
86:
1.43 deraadt 87: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
88: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
89: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
90: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
91: processing each month.<p>
92:
1.48 louis 93: <li><a href="http://www.ooi.net/">OhioOnline, Inc.</a><br>
94: This ISP and Web hosting company uses OpenBSD for
95: networked revision control and as a <a href="http://home.ooi.net/">technology
96: playground</a> for their Web developers. Additionally, several developers run
97: OpenBSD on their personal workstations and laptops. "We find OpenBSD to be a
98: reliable, well-supported Unix that runs well under workstation and server
99: loads".<p>
100:
1.43 deraadt 101: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
102: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc and Intel Pentium Pro
103: machines for network monitoring, routing (including wireless and DSL
104: connections), web site hosting, NFS, and anything else that needs to
105: be both fast and secure.<p>
106:
107: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
108: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
109: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
110: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
111: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
112: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
113: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
114: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
115: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
116:
117: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
118: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
119: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
120: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
121: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
122: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
123: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
124: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
125: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
126: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
127: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
1.12 ivan 128:
1.43 deraadt 129: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.29 deraadt 130:
1.3 jkatz 131: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 132: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
1.33 deraadt 133: sites.<p>
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1.43 deraadt 135: <li><a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">The Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
136: This laboratory at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
1.11 rees 137: for many intensive research projects.
1.14 todd 138: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
1.28 wvdputte 139: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
1.11 rees 140: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
141: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
142: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
143: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
1.28 wvdputte 144: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
1.1 jkatz 145: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
146: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
147: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
148: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
149: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
1.33 deraadt 150: their primary operating system. <p>
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1.43 deraadt 152: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
1.32 beck 153: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
154: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
155: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
156: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
157: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
158: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
159: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
160: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
161: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
162: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
1.33 deraadt 163: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
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1.43 deraadt 165: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
166: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 167: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
168: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
169: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 170: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.43 deraadt 172: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
173: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
174: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
1.25 angelos 175: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
176: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
177: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
178: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
179: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
180: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
181: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
1.33 deraadt 182: committed to."<p>
1.25 angelos 183:
1.43 deraadt 184: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
185: This maker of HTML and XML editing software, uses OpenBSD for their
1.33 deraadt 186: gateway, FTP, and web services.<p>
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1.43 deraadt 188: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
189: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
190: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
191: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
192: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
193: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
194: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 195: <p>
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1.46 louis 197: <li>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic<br>
198: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
199: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
200: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
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