<docbook><section><title>PreinstallOracleLiteOSX</title><para> </para><title> Pre-Installation Requirements for Single-Tier &quot;Lite&quot; Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle, for Mac OS X </title> Pre-Installation Requirements for Single-Tier &quot;Lite&quot; Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle, for Mac OS X 
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2"> DBMS Requirements </bridgehead>
<para>You need to know a variety of information pertaining to your target Oracle DBMS:</para><itemizedlist mark="bullet" spacing="compact"><listitem> <ulink url="HowDoIFindMyOracleSID">Oracle SID</ulink> </listitem>
<listitem> <ulink url="HowDoIFindMyOracleTCPPort">Oracle TCP Port</ulink> </listitem>
<listitem> <ulink url="HowDoIFindMySQLNetOrNetServiceName">Oracle SQL*Net or Net Service Name</ulink> </listitem>
<listitem> Hostname or IP adddress of Oracle database server</listitem>
</itemizedlist><bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2"> Software Requirements</bridgehead>
<para>As of this writing, our &quot;Lite&quot; Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle is based on <ulink url="PowerPC">PowerPC</ulink>-specific Oracle libraries, and can thus only be used by <ulink url="PowerPC">PowerPC</ulink>-based client applications, even on Intel-based Macs.
</para><itemizedlist mark="bullet" spacing="compact"><listitem> PowerPC-native applications, and Universal Binary applications which include <ulink url="PowerPC">PowerPC</ulink>-native components, on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs can connect through our &quot;Lite&quot; Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle.
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<listitem> Intel-native applications, and Universal Binary applications which do not include <ulink url="PowerPC">PowerPC</ulink>-native components, on Intel-based Macs can connect through our <ulink url="http://uda.openlinksw.com/odbc-oracle-ee/">Single-Tier &quot;Express&quot; Edition</ulink> or <ulink url="http://uda.openlinksw.com/odbc-oracle-mt/">Multi-Tier &quot;Enterprise&quot; Edition</ulink>.</listitem>
</itemizedlist><bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">Configuration Requirements</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet" spacing="compact"><listitem> There are no software configuration requirements associated with the use of our &quot;Lite&quot; Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle.</listitem>
</itemizedlist><bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2"> Next...
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<para> <ulink url="InstallOracleLiteOSX">Proceed to Installation &amp; Configuration</ulink>.</para><para> </para></section></docbook>