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1.6       downsj     15: <p>
1.79      jufi       16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Users</font></h2>
                     17: <hr>
1.47      ian        18: The term "users" has several connotations. <EM>End users</EM> often
                     19: want to meet other users of the system, to share ideas, problems and solutions,
                     20: and discuss the system over a meal or a beer. One of the best ways to do this
                     21: is with one of our
                     22: <a href="groups.html">User Groups worldwide</a>.
                     23: <p>
                     24: Another connotation of the term is "who is using the system, and for what?",
1.56      louis      25: and that is the subject of the rest of this page.  These <a
1.65      jufi       26: href="#com">companies</a> and organizations trust OpenBSD's rigorous code audit
1.38      louis      27: and security-first development model. They use the system to build firewalls,
1.56      louis      28: intrusion detection systems, or general purpose servers.
                     29: <a href="#edu">University researchers</a> and IT department developers often
                     30: have similar security and stability requirements and choose OpenBSD.
                     31: Many <a href="#isp">Internet Service Providers</a> find OpenBSD's
                     32: security features hard to resist.
                     33: <p>
1.38      louis      34:
                     35: If you would like to be listed on this page, send the information to
                     36: <a href="mailto:press@openbsd.org">press@openbsd.org</a> .
                     37: <br><br>
                     38:
                     39: <i><b>NOTE:</b> For reasons of security, companies can ask us to withhold
                     40: their names, or those of their clients. They would then appear as
                     41: "Undisclosed Company".</i><br><br>
1.1       jkatz      42: <hr>
                     43:
1.79      jufi       44: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="edu">Research and other Non-Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
                     45: <ul>
1.27      ian        46:
1.95    ! millert    47: <li><a href="http://www.ospedalimantova.it">Azienda Ospedaliera, Mantova, Italy</a><br>
        !            48: Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma" is the largest health institution in
        !            49: the province of Mantova (Lombardia) with six hospitals and other small
        !            50: ambulatories.  OpenBSD was chosen for its reliability and now serves as
        !            51: the bridging firewall between the WAN and the main Hospital of Mantova.
        !            52: We use pf and altq for firewalling and QoS applications, and use fwanalog
        !            53: to generate WAN traffic statistics.
1.94      millert    54: <p>
                     55:
1.59      jufi       56: <li><A HREF="http://www.iztacala.unam.mx">ENEP Iztacala</A><br>
1.58      louis      57: ENEP Iztacala is one of <A HREF="http://www.unam.mx">UNAM</A>'s peripheral
                     58: schools. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students,
                     59: and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly
                     60: a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one.
                     61: <br>
                     62: We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes.
                     63: With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old
                     64: Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall.
                     65: <br>
1.65      jufi       66: There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. One of
1.58      louis      67: them acts as a network monitor (using Snort) and will shortly be moved to
                     68: sit next to the firewall, and the other one serves as an OpenBSD CVS
                     69: mirror (<strong>CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.mx.openbsd.org:/cvs</strong>).
                     70: <br>
                     71: We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does
                     72: best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns
                     73: and doubts we have about our other operating systems.
                     74: <br>
                     75: We also host a Spanish OpenBSD mailing list (openbsd@tlali.iztacala.unam.mx).
                     76: <p>
                     77:
1.94      millert    78: <li><a href="http://fortthunder.org/music/ff/index.html">"Forcefield" art installation</a><br>
                     79: Part of the audio and lighting for the <em>Forcefield</em> art installation
                     80: at the 2002 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
                     81: New York is being controlled by a VAXstation 3100 running OpenBSD.
                     82: OpenBSD was chosen because it is simple and reliable.
                     83: <p>
                     84:
1.66      jufi       85: <li><a href="http://www.hus.fi/group/">Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland</a><br>
                     86: The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), with staff totaling approx. 18.000,
                     87: provides specialized medical care for the residents of the capital and other member
                     88: local authorities. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both
                     89: on the internal campus network and on the Internet.
                     90: <p>
                     91:
1.60      louis      92: <li><u>INFN Italian Institute of  Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy</u><br>
                     93: This non-profit government research and academic institution uses OpenBSD
                     94: for domain name service and IPF firewall packet filtering.
                     95: <p>
                     96:
1.94      millert    97: <li><a href="http://www.polyprep.org">Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School</a><br>
                     98: Poly Prep CDS, a large private school in the south of Brooklyn, NY,
                     99: has been using OpenBSD since its 2.9 release for its firewalls (on
                    100: both campuses) and now for its student fileservers.  The student
                    101: fileservers, which are a part of the student computer club, run
                    102: OpenBSD 3.2 and are administered by students under the guidance of
                    103: an experienced UNIX Administrator.  The goal of the program is to
                    104: teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed
                    105: in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show
                    106: the students that there are alternatives to Linux.
                    107: <p>
                    108:
1.56      louis     109: <li><u>Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic</u><br>
                    110: The university uses OpenBSD on PCs to provide WWW, mail and shell access to
                    111: staff and students, and on a SPARC IPX for a time server and secondary DNS.
                    112: The admin stations also run PCs with OpenBSD.
                    113: <p>
1.43      deraadt   114:
1.53      louis     115: <li><a href="http://www.ceesonora.org.mx">Sonora State Electoral Council,
                    116: M&eacute;xico</a><br>
                    117: El Consejo Estatal Electoral del Estado de Sonora usa OpenBSD para proteger
1.56      louis     118: sus sistemas, estas aplicaciones estan en linea a traves de Internet, dando
1.53      louis     119: resultados electorales al usuario, su red privada esta protegida por
                    120: usuarios internos y externos.<br>
                    121: <i>This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its
                    122: network as well as for intrusion detection.  The OpenBSD based VPN
                    123: provides online electoral results to both internal and external users.</i>
                    124: <p>
                    125:
1.56      louis     126: <li><a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">The University of Alberta</a><br>
                    127: uses OpenBSD on SPARC and Intel hardware for proxy servers, Kerberos
                    128: servers, print servers, service monitoring, pre-emptive security
                    129: scanning, and incident response.  OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used
                    130: for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets
                    131: behind which all the University's new administrative systems
                    132: reside. OpenBSD is used for <A
                    133: HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/authgw.html">authenticating
                    134: gateways</A> in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in
                    135: approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help
                    136: secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two
                    137: 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction.<p>
                    138:
                    139: <li>The University of Michigan's <a href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/">
                    140: Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI)</a><br>
                    141: The CITI laboratory uses OpenBSD as the basis
                    142: for many intensive research projects.
                    143: OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing
                    144: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/sinciti/smartcard/">smart card</a>
                    145: contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real
                    146: applications. Plans are underway to issue cards
                    147: containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition.
                    148: OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the
                    149: <a href= "http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/mobile.html">mobile computing</a>
                    150: program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an
                    151: OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the
                    152: local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with
                    153: privacy requirements. This practice is used for intrusion detection. In
                    154: addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as
                    155: their primary operating system. <p>
                    156:
                    157: <li><a href="http://www.umn.edu/">The University of Minnesota</a><br>
                    158: This university uses OpenBSD on Sun Sparc workstations for network monitoring
                    159: and capacity planning.  They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces
                    160: via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for
                    161: processing each month.<p>
1.55      louis     162:
1.56      louis     163: <li><u>Uppsala University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases</u><br>
                    164: The department uses OpenBSD for intranet servers, as well as for firewalls and
                    165: gateways to the Internet.
1.55      louis     166: <p>
                    167:
1.82      millert   168: <li>Warsaw University's <a href="http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/">Department of Chemistry</a><br>
                    169: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, Mail servers, DNS servers,
                    170: web servers, squid proxies, file servers and more.  The deployment
                    171: supports more than 1,000 students.
                    172: <p>
                    173:
1.94      millert   174: <li>The University of Lund's <a href="http://www.jur.lu.se">Law Department</a><br>
1.83      millert   175: The Department uses OpenBSD for Firewalls, NAT, squid proxies and
                    176: intrusion detection.  Their students use the web for applications
1.85      jufi      177: such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which
1.83      millert   178: pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes.
                    179: <p>
                    180:
1.92      millert   181: <li><a href="http://www.xscanners.org/">Xscanners Information Warfare Center</a><br>
                    182: Xcsanners IWC is geared toward many different aspect of Information
                    183: and Cyber war dealing with topics and discussions that are very
                    184: relevant in todays post 9/11 world.  Building and design Secured
                    185: enviroments using OpenBSD for many different areas.  We also have
                    186: Security Discussion boards.
                    187: <p>
                    188:
1.79      jufi      189: </ul>
1.56      louis     190:
1.79      jufi      191: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="com">Commercial Users</a></font></h2>
1.44      deraadt   192:
1.79      jufi      193: <ul>
1.56      louis     194: <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe Systems</a><br>
                    195: This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls
                    196: and network testing systems.<p>
1.23      jkatz     197:
1.43      deraadt   198: <li><a href="http://www.alteon.com">Alteon Networks</a><br>
                    199: The gigabit ethernet
1.22      jkatz     200: hardware manufacturer, uses OpenBSD machines in varying capacities ranging
1.33      deraadt   201: from testbeds to gateways.<p>
1.22      jkatz     202:
1.43      deraadt   203: <li><a href="http://www.core-sdi.com">CORE SDI S.A.</a><br>
                    204: An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD
                    205: as the main platform for operation and development of information security related
1.12      ivan      206: products. &quot;The robustness, portability and commitment to security
1.14      todd      207: of OpenBSD, as well as the ability to run on different hardware platforms,
                    208: provides an ideal operating system for environments where security and high
1.56      louis     209: availability are major concerns&quot;, says Ivan Arce, CORE SDI's CEO.<p>
1.43      deraadt   210:
1.56      louis     211: <li><a href="http://www.fscinternet.com">FSC Internet Corp.</a><br>
                    212: A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in
                    213: Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct
                    214: a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client.  "We are
                    215: delighted with OpenBSD's performance, reliability, and pro-active
                    216: attitude towards security," says a company spokesperson. "We intend
                    217: to use OpenBSD in many future projects.  We believe strongly that
                    218: open-source solutions like OpenBSD are best able to provide the high
                    219: levels of security our clients require -- closed-source software
                    220: almost never receives the level of code review that OpenBSD is
                    221: committed to."<p>
1.54      louis     222:
1.94      millert   223: <li><a href="http://www.learningtree.com/">Learning Tree International</a><br>
                    224: Learning Tree International, the leading vendor-independent training company,
                    225: uses OpenBSD in some of their security and firewall courses.
1.90      ian       226: <p>
                    227:
1.94      millert   228: <li><a href="http://www.netfriend.org/">NetFriend Ltd.</a><br>
                    229: NetFriend Ltd. is a Polish Service Provider of OpenBSD servers, web
                    230: hosting and development, domain name services, e-Commerce +solutions,
                    231: dedicated server, database and application services.<p>
                    232:
1.56      louis     233: <li><a href="http://www.netsec.net/">Network Security Technologies, Inc.</a><br>
                    234: This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed
                    235: intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing
                    236: applications.  Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the
                    237: Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed
                    238: military and government agency locations.<p>
1.43      deraadt   239:
1.56      louis     240: <li><a href="http://www.softquad.com/">SoftQuad Software Inc.</a><br>
                    241: This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their
                    242: gateway/firewall and FTP services.<p>
1.12      ivan      243:
1.94      millert   244: <li><a href="http://www.third-net.com/">Third-Net.Com</a><br>
                    245: Third-Net.Com is a solution provider here in Calgary. Many of our clients
                    246: have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed,
                    247: stability, and security.<p>
                    248:
1.78      millert   249: <li><a href="http://www.touchtunes.com/">TouchTunes</a><br>
                    250: TouchTunes is currently the only provider of digital downloading
                    251: jukeboxes to coin-operated machine operators across the U.S.
                    252: TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers,
                    253: secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. Internal DNS servers also run on
                    254: OpenBSD.<p>
1.79      jufi      255:
1.56      louis     256: <li><a href="http://www.xtime.com/">Xtime</a><br>
                    257: Xtime's core technology is the Time Inventory Management Engine, or
1.80      jufi      258: TIMEngine &reg;.  This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to
1.56      louis     259: service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available
                    260: via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship
                    261: management capabilities.  Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75%
                    262: of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail
                    263: servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts,
                    264: monitoring/IDS and production web servers.  OpenBSD is the de-facto OS
                    265: used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage
1.92      millert   266: rate amongst the department for desktop workstations.<p>
                    267:
1.79      jufi      268: </ul>
1.1       jkatz     269:
1.79      jufi      270: <h2><font color="#e00000"><a name="isp">Internet Service Providers</a></font></h2>
1.56      louis     271: <p>
                    272: One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe
                    273: from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many
                    274: ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for
                    275: many, if not most, of their services.
1.79      jufi      276: <ul>
1.18      deraadt   277:
1.71      ian       278: <li><a href="http://www.anonix.net/">Anonix</a><br>
1.70      ian       279: Anonix is an ISP offering anonymous email, shell, and web hosting
1.71      ian       280: services.  All of these, plus DNS and billing, are run on OpenBSD.<br>
1.70      ian       281: <i>"We feel confident in its security, and like its clean, layered approach.  
                    282: The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; we can
                    283: be sure that everything on our systems belongs there."</i>
                    284: <p>
                    285:
1.94      millert   286: <li><a href="http://www.appws.com/">Appalachian Web Solutions</a><br>
                    287: Appalachian Web Solutions is a Carolina based hosting and web design
                    288: company that utilizes OpenBSD for their enterprise firewall and other
                    289: behind the scenes security functions.
                    290: "After fully evaluating all the options both commercial and open source
                    291: it was an easy decision to use OpenBSD as our firewall and for other
                    292: security services."
                    293: <p>
                    294:
1.56      louis     295: <li><a href="http://www.bsws.de/">BS Web Services</a><br>
                    296: BS Web Services, a german ISP, is using OpenBSD servers for primary and
                    297: secondary DNS (djbdns), primary Web hosting (Apache) and
                    298: primary mail services (qmail-ldap). They also run mission critical
1.68      jsyn      299: LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases.
1.56      louis     300: Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes:<br>
                    301: <i>"OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs
1.58      louis     302: and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are
                    303: using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have
                    304: some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all
                    305: sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD,
                    306: especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed
                    307: source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. OpenBSD's
                    308: behaviour under high load, especially under DoS attacks, just doesn't
                    309: compare to the Linux we used before - Linux went extremely slow, while
                    310: OpenBSD doesn't even care (same hardware!)"</i>.
1.56      louis     311: <p>
                    312:
                    313: <li><a href="http://www.calyx.net">Calyx Internet Access Corp.</a><br>
                    314: This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services
                    315: including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its
                    316: data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam.  Even larger web
                    317: sites such as
                    318: <a href="http://www.snapple.com">snapple.com</a>,
                    319: <a href="http://www.tanqueray.com">tanqueray.com</a> and others are no
                    320: challenge for OpenBSD.<p>
1.1       jkatz     321:
1.80      jufi      322: <li><a href="http://c2pro.net">C2PRO</a><br>
1.77      millert   323: C2PRO is an Indonesian internet service provider using OpenBSD for their
                    324: web, mail, shell and network monitoring servers.<p>
                    325:
1.94      millert   326: <li><a href="http://www.compartment.se/">Compartment</a><br>
                    327: Compartment is a Swedish ISP that uses OpenBSD for many of its
                    328: production and development servers as well as mail, web and
                    329: routers.
                    330: <p>
                    331:
1.80      jufi      332: <li><a href="http://www.crown.net">Crown.Net</a><br>
1.43      deraadt   333: This internet service provider is running almost completely on
1.24      deraadt   334: a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386.  Our Web Servers(2), Mail
                    335: Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running
                    336: OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are
1.33      deraadt   337: running OpenBSD/i386.<p>
1.24      deraadt   338:
1.56      louis     339: <li><a href="http://www.elixor.net/">Elixor Networks Inc.</a><br>
                    340: Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts,
                    341: website hosting, and domain name hosting.
                    342: <p>
1.25      angelos   343:
1.56      louis     344: <li><a href="http://www.empirenet.net/">Empire Net</a><br>
                    345: An ISP in Bend, Oregon, uses OpenBSD on AMD, Intel, and Sun based hardware,
1.72      miod      346: for routing, firewalling, IPsec (VPN), <A
1.56      louis     347: HREF="http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/software.html#ALTQ">bandwidth
                    348: limiting</a>, web hosting, database servers, network monitoring, intrusion
                    349: detection, mail servers, backup servers, cache servers, and workstations.
                    350: One of their OpenBSD routers handles traffic on between a T3 and eight fast
                    351: ethernet ports, also with several 802.1Q VLANs to separate networks for
1.62      chris     352: co-location customers and business park tenants.  An OpenBSD mail server
                    353: handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users.
                    354: Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites.<P>
1.27      ian       355:
1.63      louis     356: <li><a href="http://www.globalwire.se/">Globalwire Communications</a><br>
                    357: Globalwire Communications  is using OpenBSD on their Short Message
                    358: Service (SMS) gateway and database servers.
                    359: <p>
                    360:
1.43      deraadt   361: <li><a href="http://www.hobbiton.org/">Hobbiton.org</a><br>
1.73      ian       362: This ISP used OpenBSD to run their free shell server for many years
1.74      ian       363: (it was shut down in November, 2001 due to rising costs of running
1.73      ian       364: a "free" service). They also use OpenBSD on other systems.
                    365: The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end
                    366: 101,796 users. "We tried OpenBSD after having constant security
                    367: problems with other operating systems", said Hobbiton's Leif
1.43      deraadt   368: Pedersen. "Since then, security in the operating system has not been a
                    369: problem and, as an added bonus, the systems have been more stable."
1.37      louis     370: <p>
1.34      deraadt   371:
1.56      louis     372: <li><a href="http://www.hurontario.net">Hurontario.net</a><br>
                    373: In the Headwaters region of Ontario, Canada, Hurontario.net uses OpenBSD
                    374: on several of their own and their customers' machines.
                    375: <p>
                    376:
1.94      millert   377: <li><a href="http://www.info-time.nl/">Infotime</a><br>
                    378: Infotime, located in the Netherlands, offers webhosting services
                    379: and domain name registration on servers running OpenBSD.  We find
                    380: OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which
                    381: to offer services.
                    382: <p>
                    383:
                    384: <li><a href="http://www.networkinformation.com/">inTEXT Communications</a><br>
                    385: inTEXT Communications is a network security company that uses OpenBSD for
                    386: firewalls, virtual private networking, as well as various high end security
                    387: systems. inTEXT Communications Inc (1994) is located in Vancouver, BC,
                    388: Canada and deploys OpenBSD for several high profile companies including a
                    389: pharmaceutical firm.
                    390: <p>
                    391:
1.56      louis     392: <li><a href="http://www.ioactive.com/">IOActive</a><br>
                    393: IOActive provides WWW developers and hackers with a place to tinker on test
                    394: servers.  The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall,
                    395: VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. "OpenBSD is fast, reliable, and I
                    396: sleep a little better at night knowing I'm using it," says owner Josh Pennell.
                    397: "The other thing I love about it is over half of the work is done to secure
                    398: the box right after installation, saving my company copious amounts of time.
                    399: OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating
                    400: systems.  Everyone else is just trying to catch up".<p>
                    401:
1.94      millert   402: <li><a href="http://www.phoenixcomm.net">Phoenix Communications</a><br>
                    403: Phoenix Communications is an ISP in Dallas, Texas, that uses OpenBSD
                    404: for firewalls and other infrastructure.
                    405: <p>
                    406:
1.80      jufi      407: <li><a href="http://www.poppe.com">Poppe Tyson Europe</a>
1.56      louis     408: is using OpenBSD as a primary DNS, mailserver for
                    409: 100+ mailboxes, and as their Website Development server for over 50
                    410: sites.<p>
                    411:
                    412: <li><a href="http://www.qpalzm.com">qpalzm.com services</a><br>
                    413: qpalzm services runs OpenBSD to offer web hosting and shell accounts. The
                    414: website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other
                    415: technobabble. An online MUD is also available. There is also a
                    416: <a href="http://www.jscript.org">JavaScript Mailing List</a>
                    417: using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript
                    418: and DHTML. Incidently, qpalzm.com's busy WWW, FTP and mail server runs
                    419: just fine with OpenBSD on a 200MHz Pentium Pro.<p>
                    420:
                    421: <li><a href="http://www.rtmx.net">RTMX Networking Services</a><br>
                    422: This North Carolina ISP is using OpenBSD on multiple servers for Web,
                    423: DNS and over 1000 e-mail users in their community just West of
                    424: Research Triangle. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and
                    425: PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming
                    426: on-line. RTMX.NET mirrors the OpenBSD
                    427: <a href="http://openbsd.groupbsd.org">WWW</a>
                    428: and <a href="ftp://openbsd.groupbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/">ftp</a> sites,
                    429: and also provides an anonymous CVS repository
                    430: (CVSROOT=anoncvs@openbsd.groupbsd.org:/cvs), all thanks to 47GB of
                    431: disk space and a dedicated T1 connection.<p>
                    432:
1.61      louis     433: <li><a href="http://start.swebase.com/?sida=maskiner">Swebase Network</a><br>
                    434: This ISP in Sweden uses OpenBSD for Web, DNS and mail servers.
                    435: <p>
                    436:
1.76      millert   437: <li><a href="http://www.vovoid.com">Vovoid Software & Multimedia.</a><br>
                    438: Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for
                    439: Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. "The choice
                    440: of OpenBSD for our production servers is obvious and an important
                    441: keystone in our security strategy."
                    442: <p>
                    443:
1.94      millert   444: <li><a href="http://www.wythenet.com">WytheNet, Inc.</a><br>
                    445: This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and
                    446: secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and
                    447: several firewalls.  They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to
                    448: their business DSL customers.
1.93      millert   449: <p>
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