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= Pre-Installation Requirements for the Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for ODBC Data Sources (a/k/a the ODBC-ODBC Bridge), for Unix-like OS =

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== DBMS Requirements ==

* Your target database must be ODBC and SQL compliant. 
* You must possess enough knowledge to establish an ODBC connection to this database using third-party or native ODBC drivers. 

== Software Requirements ==

* You must possess third-party or native drivers that connect to your target database. A client portion of these drivers must be installed on the same machine as <nop>OpenLink's Lite drivers.

== Configuration Requirements ==

* You will need to ensure that your environment is configured to promote connectivity using your third-party or native ODBC driver. <nop>OpenLink Product Support can provide minimal assistance in this area.
* You must know the exact name of one or more third party or native Data Source Names that connect to your target data source.

== Next... ==

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