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1.79 jufi 11: <h2><font color="#e00000">Users</font></h2>
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1.47 ian 13: The term "users" has several connotations. <EM>End users</EM> often
14: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
15: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
16: is with one of our
17: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
18: <p>
19: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56 louis 20: and that is the subject of the rest of this page. These <a
1.65 jufi 21: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38 louis 22: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56 louis 23: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
24: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
25: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
26: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
27: security features hard to resist.
28: <p>
1.38 louis 29:
30: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
31: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
32: <br><br>
33:
34: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
35: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
36: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
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1.79 jufi 39: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
40: <ul>
1.27 ian 41:
1.59 jufi 42: <li><A HREF="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</A><br>
1.58 louis 43: ENEP Iztacala is one of <A HREF="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</A>'s peripheral
44: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
45: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
46: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
47: <br>
48: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
49: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
50: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
51: <br>
1.65 jufi 52: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58 louis 53: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
54: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
55: mirror (<strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.mx.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong>).
56: <br>
57: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
58: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
59: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
60: <br>
61: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
62: <p>
63:
1.66 jufi 64: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
65: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
66: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
67: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
68: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
69: <p>
70:
1.60 louis 71: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
72: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
73: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
74: <p>
75:
1.56 louis 76: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
77: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
78: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
79: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
80: <p>
1.43 deraadt 81:
1.53 louis 82: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
83: México</a><br>
84: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56 louis 85: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53 louis 86: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
87: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
88: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
89: network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN
90: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
91: <p>
92:
1.56 louis 93: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
94: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
95: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
96: scanning, and incident response. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
97: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
98: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
99: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
100: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
101: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
102: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
103: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
104: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
105:
106: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
107: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
108: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
109: for many intensive research projects.
110: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
111: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
112: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
113: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
114: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
115: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
116: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
117: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
118: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
119: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
120: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
121: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
122: their primary operating system. <p>
123:
124: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
125: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
126: and capacity planning. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
127: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
128: processing each month.<p>
1.55 louis 129:
1.56 louis 130: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
131: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
132: gateways to the Internet.
1.55 louis 133: <p>
134:
1.76 millert 135: <li><a href="http://www.belperschool.co.uk">Belper School, Belper, Derbyshire, UK</a><br>
136: The Belper School uses OpenBSD machines as Samba file servers for around
137: 1100 students as well as for student web hosting and a firewall/NAT gateway.
138: <p>
139:
140: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
141: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
142: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
143: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
144: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
145: <p>
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1.79 jufi 149: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 150:
1.79 jufi 151: <ul>
1.56 louis 152: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
153: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
154: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 155:
1.43 deraadt 156: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
157: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 158: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 159: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 160:
1.43 deraadt 161: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
162: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
163: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 164: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 165: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
166: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 167: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 168:
1.56 louis 169: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
170: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
171: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
172: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
173: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
174: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
175: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
176: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
177: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
178: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
179: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 180:
1.56 louis 181: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
182: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
183: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
184: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
185: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
186: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 187:
1.56 louis 188: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
189: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
190: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 191:
1.78 millert 192: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
193: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
194: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
195: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
196: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
197: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 198:
1.56 louis 199: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
200: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 ! jufi 201: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 202: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
203: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
204: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
205: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
206: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
207: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
208: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
209: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
210: <p>
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1.1 jkatz 213:
1.79 jufi 214: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 215: <p>
216: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
217: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
218: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
219: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 220: <ul>
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1.71 ian 222: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 223: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 224: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 225: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
226: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
227: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
228: <p>
229:
1.56 louis 230: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
231: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
232: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
233: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 234: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 235: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
236: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 237: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
238: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
239: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
240: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
241: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
242: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
243: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
244: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
245: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 246: <p>
247:
248: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
249: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
250: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
251: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
252: sites such as
253: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
254: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
255: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 256:
1.80 ! jufi 257: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 258: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
259: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
260:
1.80 ! jufi 261: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 262: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 263: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
264: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
265: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 266: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.56 louis 268: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
269: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
270: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
271: <p>
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1.56 louis 273: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
274: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 275: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 276: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
277: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
278: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
279: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
280: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 281: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
282: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
283: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<P>
1.27 ian 284:
1.63 louis 285: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
286: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
287: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
288: <p>
289:
1.43 deraadt 290: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 291: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 292: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 293: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
294: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
295: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
296: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 297: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
298: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 299: <p>
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1.56 louis 301: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
302: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
303: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
304: <p>
305:
306: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
307: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
308: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
309: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
310: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
311: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
312: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
313: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
314: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
315:
1.80 ! jufi 316: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 317: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
318: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
319: sites.<p>
320:
321: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
322: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
323: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
324: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
325: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
326: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
327: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
328: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
329:
330: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
331: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
332: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
333: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
334: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
335: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
336: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
337: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
338: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
339: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
340: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
341:
1.61 louis 342: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
343: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
344: <p>
345:
1.56 louis 346: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
347: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
348: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
349: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
350: their business DSL customers.
1.46 louis 351: <p>
352:
1.76 millert 353: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
354: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
355: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
356: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
357: keystone in our security strategy."
358: <p>
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