The European Space Agency runs Solaris on its critical systems and many of
those systems run with open source software provided by blastwave.org.

    The software must be pre-compiled and guaranteed to work on
    both the SPARC and x86 machines at the Space Telescope European
    Co-ordinating Facility.  The ST-ECF is a part of ESA and is
    responsible for the European portion of the Hubble Space Telescope.
    We need to ensure that we are running the latest versions of
    our open source software components and we depend on the fast
    response time from blastwave.  We rely on the fact that any
    important patch release or security issue will be addressed
    rapidly at Blastwave.  The auto-software update facilities and
    European software mirrors allow ST-ECF to rest assured that we
    are stable and secure.

    Nick Pettefar
    ST-ECF Unix Systems Administrator

The internal processing servers and the external web servers are running
with software from Blastwave.  Please see :

              http://www.spacetelescope.org

                        and

              http://www.stecf.org

Both run with enterprise class Solaris and Open Source software from
blastwave.