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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>
1.1 jkatz 37: <hr>
38:
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>
146:
1.82 millert 147: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
148: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
149: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more. The deployment
150: supports more than 1,000 students.
151: <p>
152:
1.83 ! millert 153: <li>The <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a> of the University of Lund, Sweden<br>
! 154: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
! 155: intrusion detection. Their students use the web for applications
! 156: such as internet courses and mulitmedia lectures, all of which
! 157: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
! 158: <p>
! 159:
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1.56 louis 161:
1.79 jufi 162: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44 deraadt 163:
1.79 jufi 164: <ul>
1.56 louis 165: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
166: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
167: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23 jkatz 168:
1.43 deraadt 169: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
170: The gigabit ethernet
1.22 jkatz 171: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33 deraadt 172: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22 jkatz 173:
1.43 deraadt 174: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
175: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
176: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12 ivan 177: products. "The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14 todd 178: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
179: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56 louis 180: availability are major concerns", says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43 deraadt 181:
1.56 louis 182: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
183: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
184: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
185: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. "We are
186: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
187: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
188: to use OpenBSD in many future projects. We believe strongly that
189: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
190: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
191: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
192: committed to."<p>
1.54 louis 193:
1.56 louis 194: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
195: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
196: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
197: applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
198: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
199: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43 deraadt 200:
1.56 louis 201: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
202: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
203: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12 ivan 204:
1.78 millert 205: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
206: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
207: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
208: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
209: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
210: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79 jufi 211:
1.56 louis 212: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
213: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80 jufi 214: TIMEngine ®. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56 louis 215: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
216: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
217: management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
218: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
219: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
220: monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
221: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
222: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.
223: <p>
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1.1 jkatz 226:
1.79 jufi 227: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56 louis 228: <p>
229: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
230: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
231: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
232: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79 jufi 233: <ul>
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1.71 ian 235: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70 ian 236: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71 ian 237: services. All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70 ian 238: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.
239: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
240: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
241: <p>
242:
1.56 louis 243: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
244: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
245: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
246: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68 jsyn 247: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56 louis 248: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
249: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58 louis 250: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
251: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
252: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
253: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
254: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
255: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
256: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
257: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
258: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56 louis 259: <p>
260:
261: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
262: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
263: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
264: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Even larger web
265: sites such as
266: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
267: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
268: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1 jkatz 269:
1.80 jufi 270: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77 millert 271: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
272: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
273:
1.80 jufi 274: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43 deraadt 275: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24 deraadt 276: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers(2), Mail
277: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
278: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33 deraadt 279: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
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1.56 louis 281: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
282: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
283: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
284: <p>
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1.56 louis 286: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
287: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72 miod 288: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56 louis 289: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
290: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
291: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
292: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
293: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62 chris 294: co-location customers and business park tenants. An OpenBSD mail server
295: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
296: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<P>
1.27 ian 297:
1.63 louis 298: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
299: Globalwire Communications is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
300: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
301: <p>
302:
1.43 deraadt 303: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73 ian 304: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74 ian 305: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73 ian 306: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
307: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
308: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
309: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43 deraadt 310: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
311: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37 louis 312: <p>
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1.56 louis 314: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
315: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
316: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
317: <p>
318:
319: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
320: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
321: servers. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
322: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
323: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
324: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
325: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
326: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
327: systems. Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
328:
1.80 jufi 329: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56 louis 330: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
331: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
332: sites.<p>
333:
334: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
335: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
336: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
337: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
338: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
339: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
340: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
341: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
342:
343: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
344: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
345: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
346: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
347: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
348: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
349: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
350: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
351: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
352: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
353: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
354:
1.61 louis 355: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
356: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
357: <p>
358:
1.56 louis 359: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
360: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
361: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
362: several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
363: their business DSL customers.
1.46 louis 364: <p>
365:
1.76 millert 366: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
367: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
368: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
369: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
370: keystone in our security strategy."
371: <p>
372:
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