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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
1.65 jufi 19: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations 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>
1.43 deraadt 38: <dl>
1.27 ian 39:
1.59 jufi 40: <li><A HREF="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</A><br>
1.58 louis 41: ENEP Iztacala is one of <A HREF="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</A>'s peripheral
42: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
43: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
44: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
45: <br>
46: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
47: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
48: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
49: <br>
1.65 jufi 50: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 51: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
52: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
53: mirror (<strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.mx.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong>).
54: <br>
55: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
56: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
57: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
58: <br>
59: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
60: <p>
61:
1.66 jufi 62: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
63: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
64: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
65: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
66: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
67: <p>
68:
1.60 louis 69: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
70: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
71: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
72: <p>
73:
1.56 louis 74: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
75: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
76: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
77: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
78: <p>
1.43 deraadt 79:
1.53 louis 80: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
81: México</a><br>
82: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56 louis 83: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53 louis 84: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
85: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
86: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
87: network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN
88: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
89: <p>
90:
1.56 louis 91: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
92: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
93: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
94: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
95: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
96: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
97: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
98: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
99: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
100: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
101: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
102: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
103:
104: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
105: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
106: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
107: for many intensive research projects.
108: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
109: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
110: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
111: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
112: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
113: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
114: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
115: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
116: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
117: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
118: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
119: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
120: their primary operating system. <p>
121:
122: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
123: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
124: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
125: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
126: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 127:
1.56 louis 128: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
129: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
130: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 131: <p>
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135: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
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1.56 louis 137: <dl>
138: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
139: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
140: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 141:
1.43 deraadt 142: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
143: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 144: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 145: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 146:
1.43 deraadt 147: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
148: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
149: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 150: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 151: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
152: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 153: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 154:
1.56 louis 155: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
156: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
157: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
158: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
159: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
160: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
161: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
162: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
163: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
164: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
165: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 166:
1.56 louis 167: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
168: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
169: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
170: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
171: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
172: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 173:
1.56 louis 174: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
175: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
176: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 177:
1.56 louis 178: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
179: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
180: TIMEngine ™. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
181: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
182: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
183: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
184: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
185: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
186: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
187: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
188: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
189: <p>
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1.1 jkatz 192:
1.56 louis 193: <h2><font color=#e00000><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
194: <p>
195: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
196: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
197: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
198: many, if not most, of their services.
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1.71 ian 201: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 202: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 203: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 204: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
205: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
206: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
207: <p>
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1.56 louis 209: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
210: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
211: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
212: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 213: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 214: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
215: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 216: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
217: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
218: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
219: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
220: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
221: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
222: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
223: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
224: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 225: <p>
226:
227: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
228: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
229: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
230: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
231: sites such as
232: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
233: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
234: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 235:
1.43 deraadt 236: <li><a href=http://www.crown.net>Crown.Net</a><br>
237: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 238: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
239: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
240: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 241: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24 deraadt 242:
1.56 louis 243: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
244: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
245: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
246: <p>
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1.56 louis 248: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
249: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 250: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 251: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
252: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
253: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
254: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
255: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 256: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
257: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
258: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<P>
1.27 ian 259:
1.63 louis 260: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
261: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
262: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
263: <p>
264:
1.43 deraadt 265: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 266: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 267: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 268: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
269: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
270: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
271: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 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:
1.61 louis 317: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
318: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
319: <p>
320:
1.56 louis 321: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
322: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
323: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
324: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
325: their business DSL customers.
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