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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?",
1.56 louis 18: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
19: href="#com">companies</a> and organisations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 20: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 21: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
22: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
23: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
24: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
25: security features hard to resist.
26: <p>
1.38 louis 27:
28: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
29: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
30: <br><br>
31:
32: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
33: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
34: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1 jkatz 35: <hr>
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1.56 louis 37: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
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1.27 ian 39:
1.50 louis 40: <li><a href="http://www.amnesty.org/">Amnesty International</a><br>
41: Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works
42: to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of
43: Human Rights and other international standards.
44: Amnesty International is using OpenBSD for network firewalls and for
45: Virtual Private Networks (IPSec) between its sections around the world.<p>
46:
1.58 ! louis 47: <li><A HREF="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</A></br>
! 48: ENEP Iztacala is one of <A HREF="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</A>'s peripheral
! 49: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
! 50: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
! 51: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
! 52: <br>
! 53: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
! 54: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
! 55: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
! 56: <br>
! 57: There are two aditional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
! 58: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
! 59: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
! 60: mirror (<strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.mx.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong>).
! 61: <br>
! 62: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
! 63: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
! 64: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
! 65: <br>
! 66: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
! 67: <p>
! 68:
1.56 louis 69: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
70: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
71: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
72: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
73: <p>
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1.57 louis 75: <li><a href="http://vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu/">Justin Smith</a>, Drexel
76: University<br> Justin Smith teaches in the department of Mathematics and
77: Computer Science at Drexel University. He writes: <br>
78: <i>"After several break-ins, I converted my system from Linux to OpenBSD. Now
79: it runs all the software I used to use in Linux, including a full-featured
80: desktop (Helix Gnome), research and productivity software; Web pages for
81: courses I teach; and software to administer and grade exams (the break-ins on
82: my old Linux system always occurred during exam times). I was also attracted to
83: OpenBSD because of the superiority of its UVM virtual memory algorithm (also
84: used by NetBSD)."</i>
85: <p>
86:
1.53 louis 87: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
88: México</a><br>
89: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56 louis 90: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53 louis 91: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
92: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
93: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
94: network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN
95: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
96: <p>
97:
1.56 louis 98: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
99: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
100: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
101: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
102: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
103: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
104: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
105: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
106: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
107: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
108: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
109: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
110:
111: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
112: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
113: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
114: for many intensive research projects.
115: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
116: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
117: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
118: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
119: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
120: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
121: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
122: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
123: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
124: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
125: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
126: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
127: their primary operating system. <p>
128:
129: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
130: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
131: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
132: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
133: processing each month.<p>
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1.56 louis 135: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
136: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
137: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 138: <p>
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142: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
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1.56 louis 144: <dl>
145: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
146: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
147: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 148:
1.43 deraadt 149: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
150: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 151: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 152: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 153:
1.43 deraadt 154: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
155: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
156: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 157: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 158: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
159: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 160: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
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1.56 louis 162: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
163: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
164: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
165: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
166: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
167: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
168: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
169: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
170: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
171: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
172: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 173:
1.56 louis 174: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
175: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
176: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
177: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
178: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
179: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 180:
181: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX Incorporated</a><br>
182: This vendor produces an OpenBSD derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended
183: system solution. RTMX fully re-implemented previously developed
184: in-house IEEE POSIX realtime extensions using OpenBSD as a root source
185: tree. Nearly all of the IEEE POSIX extensions have been
186: added. Currently all OpenBSD features are supported, but only on the
187: m68k, MIPS and PowerPC cpu types. Pentium and Alpha cpu versions are
188: to be released soon. RTMX Inc. is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and
189: has ported Motif 1.2.3 to most of the supported platforms.<p>
190:
1.56 louis 191: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
192: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
193: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
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1.56 louis 195: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
196: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
197: TIMEngine ™. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
198: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
199: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
200: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
201: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
202: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
203: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
204: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
205: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
206: <p>
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1.56 louis 210: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
211: <p>
212: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
213: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
214: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
215: many, if not most, of their services.
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1.56 louis 218: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
219: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
220: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
221: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
222: LDAP Authentification Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
223: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
224: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 ! louis 225: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
! 226: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
! 227: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
! 228: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
! 229: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
! 230: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
! 231: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
! 232: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
! 233: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 234: <p>
235:
236: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
237: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
238: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
239: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
240: sites such as
241: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
242: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
243: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 244:
1.43 deraadt 245: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
246: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 247: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
248: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
249: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 250: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.56 louis 252: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
253: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
254: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
255: <p>
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1.56 louis 257: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
258: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
259: for routing, firewalling, IPSec/VPN, <A
260: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
261: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
262: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
263: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
264: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
265: co-location customers and business park tenants.<P>
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1.43 deraadt 267: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
268: This ISP uses OpenBSD to run their free shell server, as well as other
269: systems. The shell server, a single AMD K6/233, handles well over
270: 10,000 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
271: problems with other operating systems", says Hobbiton's Leif
272: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
273: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 274: <p>
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1.56 louis 276: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
277: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
278: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
279: <p>
280:
281: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
282: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
283: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
284: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
285: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
286: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
287: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
288: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
289: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
290:
291: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
292: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
293: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
294: sites.<p>
295:
296: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
297: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
298: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
299: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
300: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
301: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
302: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
303: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
304:
305: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
306: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
307: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
308: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
309: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
310: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
311: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
312: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
313: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
314: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
315: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
316:
317: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
318: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
319: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
320: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
321: their business DSL customers.
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