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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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1.9 ! johns 39: <li>The <a href="http://www.umn.edu/"> University of Minnesota uses
! 40: OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring and capacity
! 41: planning. They query 32,000 different interfaces via SNMP, logging
! 42: SNMP data to concatenated disk for processing each month.
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1.1 jkatz 44: <li><a href="http://www.mac.edu">MacMurray College</a> of Jacksonville,
1.8 jkatz 45: Illinois is using a P5/150 as its main server for over 600 students and
46: 100 staff and faculty users. This system is also planned to be used by
47: the MacMurray Computer Science department for both the instrcution of
48: programming and administration. By using OpenBSD on existing hardware,
1.1 jkatz 49: MacMurray plans to save the thousands needed to keep a current version of
50: AIX running on their RS/6000 server.
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52: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.com">RTMX, Inc.</a>, produces an OpenBSD
53: derived, IEEE POSIX real time extended system solution. RTMX fully
54: re-implemented previously developed in-house IEEE POSIX realtime
55: extensions using OpenBSD as a root source tree. Nearly all of the IEEE
56: POSIX extensions have been added. Currently all OpenBSD features are
57: supported, but only a reasonable subset of the cpu types & platforms are
58: currently working. <br>
59: RTMX is also a licensed OSF Motif house, and has ported Motif 1.2.3 to
60: most of the supported platforms. Yong Chen's VXP Motif GUI Builder has
61: been licensed for porting to OpenBSD/RTMX systems. In addition, RTMX
62: plans to release a general purpose data base package in the
63: not-too-distant future.<br>
64: RTMX "believes strongly in the OpenBSD approach...and looks forward to
65: supporting the organization as it grows."
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1.3 jkatz 67: <li><a href=http://www.poppe.com>Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
68: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
1.1 jkatz 69: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
70: sites.
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72: <li>Felix Schröter is developing a generic IP tunneling program which
73: will be able to tunnel IP and other protocols (OS dependant), through a
74: streams based connections. The software can optionally encrypt and
75: integrity check the packets it transfers. This software is aimed
76: as a solution for VPN (virtual private networks).<br>
77: Felix is using OpenBSD because of the pseudo-device "tun" which makes
78: getting IP and other protocol's packets from the kernel quite easily.<br>
79: Licensing negotiations for this product are still underway. Felix hopes to
1.7 flipk 80: provide a free license (binary and source) for non-commericial use.
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1.3 jkatz 82: <li><a href=http://www.tal.net>TAL Wireless Networks, Inc.</a>
83: uses OpenBSD as a platform for multiple
1.1 jkatz 84: firewall, http proxy and dialup and servers across California. Some of
85: these machines were formerly running the commercial version of BSD,
86: BSD/OS. TALNET S.A., the Argentina based offices of TALNET are using
87: OpenBSD as a mail server, firewall and http proxy.
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1.2 jkatz 89: <li><a href="http://www.etinc.com">Emerging Technologies Inc.</a> makes T1
1.1 jkatz 90: and other synchronous communications hardware and software for the OpenBSD
91: platform. This hardware is in use in many ISPs world-wide and shows how
92: effectively OpenBSD can be used as a communications routing platform for
93: IP routing. These products allow OpenBSD-based machines to directly
94: connect ot 56kbs DDS, T1 lines or frame relay networks, eliminating the
95: need for an external router. <br>
96: On the software end, ET/BWMGR, ET's Bandwith Manager, a part of their
97: software drivers, has been ported to the OpenBSD platform. The bandwith
98: manager can effectively be used as a solution for network managers who
99: need to tune bandwith usage, control the bandwith of their client sites,
100: and clear up network bottlenecks.
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102: <li>An undisclosed company is using OpenBSD on a Sparc 1+ as a private
103: firewall and WWW server for 50-100 internal client workstations.
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105: <li>CITI labs at the University of Michigan uses OpenBSD as the basis
106: for many intensive research projects. In the
107: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/sinciti/smartcards.html">
108: smart card project</a>, OpenBSD is used for analysing the contents and
109: protocols of a given mag-stripe card, both in isolation and in real
110: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards to allow logins and to
111: store PGP keys. OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
112: <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/mobile.html">mobile AFS</a>
113: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
114: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
115: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
116: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
117: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
118: their primary operating system.
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