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  • Page 1

    Revision Date: November 26, 2007 Cryst al Report s 2008 Supported Platforms Overview This document lists spec ific platforms and configu rations for Crystal Reports 2008. Content s I NTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ 2 P RODUCTS ..................................................[...]

  • Page 2

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Introduction This document contains in formation specific to pl atforms and configurations for Crystal Reports 2008. Product s • Crystal Reports 2008 Designer Languages • Chinese Simplified • Chinese Traditional • Dutch • English • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Portugu[...]

  • Page 3

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Supported Operating Systems Operating System Windows Vista (All Edi tions) Windows XP SP2 Professional Windows Server 2003 SP1 Datacenter Edition Windows Server 2003 SP1 Enterprise Edition Windows Server 2003 SP1 Standard Edition Windows Server 2003 SP1 Web Ed ition Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition [...]

  • Page 4

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Minimum Screen Resolution Screen resolution of [1024] x [768] is recommended. Hardware Requirement s fo r Cryst al Report s 2008 • Intel Pentium III or equivalent processor • 256 MB RAM , 512 MB recommended • 300 MB avail able hard drive space , 600 MB recommended with Visual Stud io .NET integrat ion [...]

  • Page 5

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Supported Application Servers Applies To All components within Crystal Reports that run within an appli cation server, including: • .NET Webform Viewers • Redistrib utable applications th at embed the reporting engine Details Application Server Operating System Support Microsoft IIS 6 Windows Microsoft I[...]

  • Page 6

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Supported Browsers Applies To .NET Webform viewer and the ActiveX Viewer (in IE only). Details Browser OS Browser Firefox 2.0 IE 7.0 Microsoft Windows IE 6.0 SP2 Red Hat Linux Firefox 2.0 SuSe Linux Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0.1 Macintosh Safari 3.0 11/26/2007 1:36 PM Copyright © 2007 BusinessObject s. All right[...]

  • Page 7

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Dat abase Support (OLAP) Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Support Essbase Server 7.1.x Essbase API 7.1.x Yes Hyperion System 9 Hyperion API Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2000 SP4 Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Client 2000 SP4 Yes Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 SP1 1 Microsoft SQL Server [...]

  • Page 8

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Dat abase Support (RDBMS) Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Generic JDBC Sources 4 Java 1.4.2_xx Yes Generic JDBC Sources 4 Java 1.5 Yes Generic ODBC Sources 4 ODBC Yes Generic OLEDB Sources 4 OLEDB Yes HP NeoView 2.2 HP NeoView ODBC 2.2 Yes DB2 Client 8. 2 Yes IBM iSeries Access (ODBC) 5.3 Yes DB2 JDBC U[...]

  • Page 9

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Provider Name Data Connector Unicode DB2 Client 9. 1 IBM JDBC Universal Driver Yes IBM DB2/UDB for NT/Unix 9.1 DB2 OLEDB 9.1 Yes DB2 Client 8. 1 IBM DB2/UDB for zSeries 7 DB2 ODBC Client 8. 1 Yes DB2 Client 8. 2 IBM DB2/UDB for zSeries 8 DB2 universal JDBC Driver 6 IBM Informix ODBC SDK 2.90 Yes IBM Informix[...]

  • Page 10

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4 SQL Server 2000 JDBC Driver Yes Microsoft ODBC MDAC 2.8 Yes Microsoft OLEDB MDAC 2.8 Yes Microsoft ODBC SNAC (Native Cli ent) Yes Microsoft OLEDB SNAC (Native Cli ent) Yes Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver Yes Microsoft OD[...]

  • Page 11

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Microsoft ODBC MDAC 2.7 1 Yes Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 SP4 Microsoft OLEDB MDAC 2.7 Yes MySQL AB ODBC V3.51 Yes MySQL AB 5.0 MySQL AB JDBC V5.0 Yes NCR Terada ta V2R5.1 NCR Teradata ODBC 3.05 (TTU 8.1) NCR Teradata V2R6 NCR Teradata ODBC 3.05 (TTU 8.1) NCR Teradata ODBC 3[...]

  • Page 12

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Oracle Net Client 10.1 Yes JDBC Oracle 10 .1 Yes ODBC Oracle 10.1 Yes Oracle 10g R1 (10.1) OLEDB Oracle 10.1 Yes Oracle Net Client 10.2 Yes JDBC Oracle 10 .2 Yes ODBC Oracle 10.2 Yes Oracle 10g R2(10. 2) OLEDB Oracle 10.2 Yes Progress OpenEdge 10 OpenEdge SQL 10 Sybase Op[...]

  • Page 13

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Dat abase Support (T echnology) Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Support ACT 6 ACT 6 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Yes Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Yes ADO .NET Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Yes Borland Database Engine 5.1 BDE 5.1 COM N/A Yes Microsoft Exchange 5. 5 Microsoft Office 2000 Microsoft Exchange[...]

  • Page 14

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Provider Name Data Connector Unicode Support File System N/A Yes Java Bean JDK 1.4 Yes Lotus Notes 6 ODBC Lotus Notes 6 Yes Lotus Notes 7 ODBC Lotus Notes 7 Yes Microsoft IIS Log N/A Microsoft Outlook 2000 Microsoft Office 2000 Microsoft Outlook 2003 Microsoft Office 2003 Microsoft Outlook 2007 Microsoft Off[...]

  • Page 15

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Other T ools Microsoft Office • Microsoft Office 2007 • Microsoft Office 2003 SP2 • Microsoft Office XP SP3 • Microsoft Office XP SP2 Adobe Reader • Adobe Reader 8 Adobe Flash Player • Adobe Flash Player 9 Only required for view ing Flash objects embedded in a Crystal Report Citrix Support • Ci[...]

  • Page 16

    Crystal Reports 2008 Supported Platforms Finding More Information For more information and r esources, refer to the product documentation and visit the support area of the web site at: http://www.businessobjects.com/ 11/26/2007 1:36 PM Copyright © 2007 BusinessObject s. All rights reserved. Page 16 cr_2008_supported_ platforms_window s.pdf[...]