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ELM consortium, Biocomputing Unit EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany The ELM consortium runs the The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Database and uses OpenBSD for the consortium's communication servers. UNAM is Mexico's largest University, with over 250,000 students, and at ENEP Iztacala we have a bit over 10,000 students. This is mostly a health-oriented campus, so the computer area is not a big one. We run as servers currently two OpenBSD, one Solaris and two Linux boxes. With OpenBSD we handle the main web site (happily running on a 7-year old Sparcstation 5), part of our mail accounts and our firewall. There are two additional OpenBSD computers, in our development area. We do not do run very creative stuff, we just use OpenBSD for what it does best: run smoothly, even on older hardware, freeing us from most concerns and doubts we have about our other operating systems. OpenBSD is used for DNS, mail gateway, VPN and firewall solutions both on the internal campus network and on the Internet. The goal of the program is to teach potential computer professionals the responsibility needed in running a UNIX-like system, good security practices and to show the students that there are alternatives to Linux. This government agency uses OpenBSD as a means to protect its network as well as for intrusion detection. The OpenBSD based VPN provides online electoral results to both internal and external users. OpenBSD on Intel Hardware is used for Firewalls and Lan-to-Lan VPN for the university's secured subnets behind which all the University's new administrative systems reside. OpenBSD is used for 17 authenticating gateways in front of public labs and public ethernet jacks in approximately 40 locations across campus (about 1500 seats) to help secure public internet access. The Department of Computing Science is using two 20 seat OpenBSD labs for undergraduate instruction. Their students use the web for applications such as internet courses and multimedia lectures, all of which pass through one or more OpenBSD boxes. OpenBSD is used for developing and analyzing 20 smart card contents and protocols, both in isolation and in real applications. Plans are underway to issue cards containing secure tokens for user logins and kerberos ticket acquisition. OpenBSD is also used as a test platform for the 21 mobile computing program at CITI. Internally "The Packet Vault" is an OpenBSD machine that captures and records on cd-rom every packet on the local 10 Mbps ethernet. Packet contents are encrypted to comply with privacy requirements. In addition, a number of people within the department are using OpenBSD as their primary operating system. They query 53,000 (as of May 1999) different interfaces via SNMP, logging more than 250MB of SNMP data to concatenated disk for processing each month. Xscanners builds and designs secured environments using OpenBSD for many different areas. Commercial Users * 25 Adobe Systems This software giant uses OpenBSD on a number of their network firewalls and network testing systems. An Information Security company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina uses OpenBSD as the main platform for operation and development of information security related products. A large Information Security and Internet development firm located in Toronto, has used OpenBSD and its IPsec support to construct a secure and flexible VPN for a multi-billion dollar client. This network and computer security firm uses OpenBSD for high speed intrusion detection, virtual private networking, and data warehousing applications. Network Security Technologies, Inc is located in the Washington DC metro area, and uses OpenBSD at several undisclosed military and government agency locations. This maker of HTML and XML editing software uses OpenBSD for their gateway/firewall and FTP services. Many of our clients have switched to OpenBSD for their firewall/VPN due to it's speed, stability, and security. TouchTunes relies heavily on OpenBSD for high-traffic FTP servers, secure firewalls and VPN connectivity. This technology brings the benefits of e-commerce to service merchants everywhere, making their time-based inventory available via the web or phone, and delivering powerful new customer relationship management capabilities. Xtime leverages the power of OpenBSD for 75% of their mission-critical network infrastructure, which includes Mail servers, DNS servers, several VPN/Firewalls, secure logging hosts, monitoring/IDS and production web servers. OpenBSD is the de-facto OS used by the Xtime network operations department, boasting a 100% usage rate amongst the department for desktop workstations. Internet Service Providers One goal of any ISP is to keep their customers' sites and accounts safe from intrusion. OpenBSD's security record speaks for itself, so many ISPs use OpenBSD for this reason alone. However, others use OpenBSD for many, if not most, of their services. The basic install doesn't have huge amounts of unnecessary baggage; They also run mission critical LDAP Authentication Backend on OpenBSD (OpenLDAP), as well as MySQL databases. Hostmaster Henning Brauer writes: "OpenBSD needed some tuning on these machines, especially bigger maxprocs and maxfiles, but it handles extraordinary loads on ordinary hardware. We are using AMD Athlons (mostly the new Thunderbirds) and AMD K6-III's. We also have some internal machines running OpenBSD as testbeds and printservers and all sorts of other purposes. We plan to move some more machines to OpenBSD, especially our firewalls. Unfortunately we are still running some closed source software, but we'd like to try the Linux emulation. This company uses OpenBSD for running all mission-critical services including WWW, FTP, email, VPN traffic, and network monitoring at its data centers in New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. Net This internet service provider is running almost completely on a mixture of OpenBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/i386. Our Web Servers, Mail Server, Primary and Secondary DNS, and Radius servers all are running OpenBSD/sparc and our shell server and several co-located servers are running OpenBSD/i386. Elixor Networks uses OpenBSD on AMD hardware to provide shell accounts, website hosting, and domain name hosting. An OpenBSD mail server handles e-mail storage/retrieval and RADIUS authentication for over 5,000 users. Several OpenBSD web servers each handle over 300 web sites. The shell server, a single AMD Athlon 650, handled at the end 101,796 users. We find OpenBSD to be the most reliable and secure operating system on which to offer services. The Seattle, WA, service provider also installs OpenBSD firewall, VPN and IDS systems for regional businesses. OpenBSD in my mind is the defacto standard for open source secure operating systems. The website offers daily updates on programming, gaming, irc, and other technobabble. There is also a 57 JavaScript Mailing List using OpenBSD for the benefit of those interested in JavaScript and DHTML. There is a mix of AMD K-6, MicroSPARC-II and PowerPC systems in use, with more customer sub-net servers coming on-line. Vovoid Software & Multimedia in Gothenburg, Sweden runs OpenBSD for Firewalls, Web Servers, Mail Servers and DNS Servers. This Virginia ISP uses OpenBSD on all of its servers, including primary and secondary radius, primary and secondary DNS, mail, network monitoring, and several firewalls. They also sell OpenBSD based routers and firewalls to their business DSL customers.
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