Hardware and software requirements

Table 1-3 lists the platforms, compilers, and third-party products Open Server and SDK products are built and tested on.

**Table 1-3: Open Server and Open Client platform compatibility matrix**
Platform	Operating system level	C and C++ compilers	COBOL compiler	Kerberos version	Lightweight Directory Access (LDAP)	Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)	Perl version	PHP version	Python version
Microsoft Windows x86 32-bit	Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows XP Service Pack 1 (ODBC/ OLE DB only)	Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (C/C++)	MF SE 5.1	Cybersafe Trustbroker 4.0, MIT 2.6.4	OpenLDAP 2.4.16 with OpenSSL 0.9.8l	Certicom SSL Plus 5.2.2 (SBGSE 2.0) CSI-Crypto 2.7M1	n/a	n/a	n/a
Microsoft Windows x86-64 64-bit	Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Windows XP Service Pack 1 (ODBC/ OLE DB only)	Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (C/C++)	MF SE 5.1	Cybersafe Trustbroker 2.1	OpenLDAP 2.4.16 with OpenSSL 0.9.8l	Certicom SSL Plus 5.2.2 (SBGSE 2.0) CSI-Crypto 2.7M1	Active Perl 5.14.1 (DBI 1.616)	5.3.6	2.6, 2.7, and 3.1 (DBAPI 2.0)
LEGEND: n/a = script is not available or does not work with SDK on that platform.

**Table 1-4: System requirements for Open Server and Open Client supported protocols**
Hardware	Operating system	Supported protocols
Microsoft Windows x86 32-bit	Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1	All: TCP/IP IPX/SPX Microsoft Named Pipes
Microsoft Windows x86-64 64-bit	Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1	All: TCP/IP IPX/SPX Microsoft Named Pipes

Only Open Server, E/SQL, Client-Library, and DB-Library support Microsoft Named Pipes.

Table 1-5 shows the system requirements for ODBC and OLE DB.

**Table 1-5: System requirements for ODBC and OLE DB**
Hardware	For Microsoft Windows x86 32-bit: PC with 486 or greater Intel processor For Microsoft Windows X86-64 64-bit: PC with x64 architecture
Operating system	Microsoft Windows XP x86 Service Pack 1.0 or later Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 x86, Service Pack 1 or later Microsoft Windows XP x86-64 Service Pack 1.0 or later Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 x86-64, Service Pack 1.0 or later Microsoft Windows 7 x86-64
Additional patch	Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 or later
Web browser	Internet Explorer 4.0 or later
Other components	Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)*

Table 1-6 identifies the requirements for the Adaptive Server ADO.NET Data Provider.

**Table 1-6: System requirements for Adaptive Server ADO.NET Data Provider**
Hardware	For Microsoft Windows x86 32-bit: PC with 90MHz Intel Pentium processor For Microsoft Windows x86-64 64-bit: PC with x64 architecture
Operating system	Microsoft Windows XP x86 Service Pack 1.0 or later Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 x86, Service Pack 1 or later Microsoft Windows XP x86-64 Service Pack 1.0 or later Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 x86-64, Service Pack 1.0 or later
Additional patch	Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 or later
Other components	Microsoft Windows .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 is required for 2.157 version of ADO.NET Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0 is required for the 4.157 version of ADO.NET Install this before installing the Adaptive Server ADO.NET Data Provider included with the SDK.
Development	Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 are supported for ADO.NET 2.157 Microsoft .NET Framework SDK 4.0 is supported for ADO.NET 4.157 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2008, and 2010 are supported for ADO.NET 2.157 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010 is supported for ADO.NET 4.157