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17: OpenBSD is not just a kernel hackers' operating system. Several
18: corporations, universities, and ISP's are using OpenBSD to serve their IT,
19: research and security needs. The following list and associated statistics
20: should speak for themselves about the reliability and integrity of an
21: OpenBSD system.<br><br>
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23: <i><b>NOTE:</b> Some companies for security purposes have asked that we do
24: not disclose the name of their business. To comply with these wishes you
25: may notice "Undisclosed Company" in some of our listings.</i><br><br>
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1.3 jkatz 31: <li><a href=http://www.secnet.com>Secure Networks, Inc.</a>
32: has been using OpenBSD as their core development
1.1 jkatz 33: platform for their flagship product, Ballista. According to a corporate
34: representative, "it [OpenBSD] has proven to be very stable, and quite well
35: supported for a free operating system." In addition, it should be noted
36: that code from the Ballista project developed on OpenBSD systems was
37: easily ported to Irix and Solaris.
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39: <li><a href="http://www.mac.edu">MacMurray College</a> of Jacksonville,
1.8 ! jkatz 40: Illinois is using a P5/150 as its main server for over 600 students and
! 41: 100 staff and faculty users. This system is also planned to be used by
! 42: the MacMurray Computer Science department for both the instrcution of
! 43: programming and administration. By using OpenBSD on existing hardware,
1.1 jkatz 44: MacMurray plans to save the thousands needed to keep a current version of
45: AIX running on their RS/6000 server.
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47: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
48: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
49: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
50: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
51: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
52: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
53: currently working. <br>
54: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
55: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
56: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
57: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
58: not-too-distant future.<br>
59: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
60: supporting the organization as it grows."
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1.3 jkatz 62: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
63: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 64: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
65: sites.
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67: <li>Felix Schröter is developing a generic IP tunneling program which
68: will be able to tunnel IP and other protocols (OS dependant), through a
69: streams based connections. The software can optionally encrypt and
70: integrity check the packets it transfers. This software is aimed
71: as a solution for VPN (virtual private networks).<br>
72: Felix is using OpenBSD because of the pseudo-device "tun" which makes
73: getting IP and other protocol's packets from the kernel quite easily.<br>
74: Licensing negotiations for this product are still underway. Felix hopes to
1.7 flipk 75: provide a free license (binary and source) for non-commericial use.
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1.3 jkatz 77: <li><a href=http://www.tal.net>TAL Wireless Networks, Inc.</a>
78: uses OpenBSD as a platform for multiple
1.1 jkatz 79: firewall, http proxy and dialup and servers across California. Some of
80: these machines were formerly running the commercial version of BSD,
81: BSD/OS. TALNET S.A., the Argentina based offices of TALNET are using
82: OpenBSD as a mail server, firewall and http proxy.
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1.2 jkatz 84: <li><a href="http://www.etinc.com">Emerging Technologies Inc.</a> makes T1
1.1 jkatz 85: and other synchronous communications hardware and software for the OpenBSD
86: platform. This hardware is in use in many ISPs world-wide and shows how
87: effectively OpenBSD can be used as a communications routing platform for
88: IP routing. These products allow OpenBSD-based machines to directly
89: connect ot 56kbs DDS, T1 lines or frame relay networks, eliminating the
90: need for an external router. <br>
91: On the software end, ET/BWMGR, ET's Bandwith Manager, a part of their
92: software drivers, has been ported to the OpenBSD platform. The bandwith
93: manager can effectively be used as a solution for network managers who
94: need to tune bandwith usage, control the bandwith of their client sites,
95: and clear up network bottlenecks.
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97: <li>An undisclosed company is using OpenBSD on a Sparc 1+ as a private
98: firewall and WWW server for 50-100 internal client workstations.
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100: <li>CITI labs at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
101: for many intensive research projects. In the
102: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/sinciti/smartcards.html">
103: smart card project</a>, OpenBSD is used for analysing the contents and
104: protocols of a given mag-stripe card, both in isolation and in real
105: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards to allow logins and to
106: store PGP keys. OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
107: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/mobile.html">mobile AFS</a>
108: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
109: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
110: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
111: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
112: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
113: their primary operating system.
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