System Requirements

Oracle Data Provider for .NET requires the following:

• Windows operating system

  • 32-bit: Windows Vista (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate Editions), Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional Edition.

    Oracle supports 32-bit ODP.NET on x86, AMD64, and Intel EM64T processors on these operating systems.

  • 64 bit: Windows Vista x64 (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate Editions), Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Server 2003 R2 x64, or Windows XP x64.

    Oracle supports 32-bit ODP.NET and 64-bit ODP.NET for Windows x64 on these operating systems.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later

• Access to Oracle9i Database Release 2 or later

• Oracle Client release 11.1 and later and Oracle Net Services (included with ODP.NET Software)

Additional requirements are the following:

• Applications using Microsoft Enterprise Services transactions require Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server release 11.1.

• Applications using OracleXmlStream and OracleXmlType classes with schema-based XMLType require access to Oracle Database 10g release 1 (10.1) or later.