Forwarded From: Ejovi Nuwere <joeyat_private> CPIO NETWORKS TO OFFER COMMERCIAL SUPPORT FOR OPENBSD SAN JOSE, CA-- Free software has become increasingly pervasive in today's society; however, a primary concern of would-be consumers is lack of commercial support. Today, CPIO Networks announced plans to offer technical support and enterprise consulting services for OpenBSD, a popular, highly secure free operating system. Beginning August 10th, the San Jose-based security consulting company will provide 24 hour on-call technical support for OpenBSD SPARC and Intel platforms. Support levels range from novice user assistance to custom kernel modifications, device driver development, and onsite support. "This is something we've been planning for a long time. We think it will be a wonderful boost for the OpenBSD project and free software in general," said Jonathan Katz, CEO of CPIO Networks. "OpenBSD is regarded as one of the most secure operating systems on the market today-- commercial or freeware. With the assurance of world class, around-the-clock technical assistance, your company can 'rest secure' with OpenBSD and CPIO Networks." CPIO plans to donate some of its profits back to the OpenBSD project. OpenBSD is a freely available operating system renowned for security and a high quality code base. It runs on over ten platforms and supports many commercial and free applications; the OS boasts binary emulation, allowing users to run most Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI, SunOS, and HPUX programs on OpenBSD. Developers continually review all OpenBSD code, ensuring that any potential security flaws are corrected before they can develop into exploitable conditions. OpenBSD ships with a firewall toolkit, including IP filtering and network address translation. Unlike many other free operating systems, OpenBSD boasts a centralized, coordinated development effort. The operating system is governed by the BSD copyright, which allows individuals and companies to incorporate OpenBSD code into other products. CPIO Networks is using OpenBSD as the basis for an all-in-one firewall solution scheduled to debut in late 1998. About CPIO Networks CPIO Networks was founded in September of 1997 to create security solutions for the next century. CPIO designs and manufactures hardware- and software- based tools that will enable today's IT departments to handle tomorrow's security threats. In addition, CPIO Networks offers computer security training, security administration and consulting services in New York, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and the Silicon Valley area. For more information, contact CPIO Networks at (408) 829-OBSD or visit CPIO's web site at http://www.cpio.net. About the OpenBSD Project Founded by Theo de Raadt in mid-1996, the OpenBSD project is the only free software project with a security-based development effort. Evolved from 4.4BSD and the NetBSD code base, OpenBSD's multi-year continuous security audit, high quality code and unified development effort has made it the only BSD-derived OS trusted by security professionals the world over. For more information, visit the OpenBSD website at http://www.openbsd.org. CONTACT: CPIO Networks, Inc. cpioat_private (408) 829-OBSD -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: New Dimensions International [www.newdimensions.net]
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