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= Pre-Installation Requirements for Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle, for Mac OS X =

== DBMS Requirements ==

You need to know a variety of information pertaining to your target Oracle DBMS:

* [[HowDoIFindMyOracleSID|Oracle SID]]
* [[HowDoIFindMyOracleTCPPort|Oracle TCP Port]]
* [[HowDoIFindMySQLNetOrNetServiceName|Oracle SQL*Net or Net Service Name]]
* Hostname or IP adddress of Oracle database server

== Software Requirements==

As of this writing, our "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle is based on PowerPC-specific Oracle libraries, and can thus only be used by PowerPC-based client applications, even on Intel-based Macs.
* <nop>PowerPC-native applications, and Universal Binary applications which include PowerPC-native components, on both <nop>PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs can connect through our "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle.
* Intel-native applications, and Universal Binary applications which do not include PowerPC-native components, on Intel-based Macs can connect through our [[http://uda.openlinksw.com/odbc-oracle-ee/| Single-Tier "Express" Edition]] or [[http://uda.openlinksw.com/odbc-oracle-mt/| Multi-Tier "Enterprise" Edition]].

==Configuration Requirements==

* There are no software configuration requirements associated with the use of our "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Oracle.

== Next... ==
[[InstallOracleLiteOSX|Proceed to Installation & Configuration]].