Technical Requirements

alfabet software streamlines data collection, to encourage widespread user communities to update content. Any member of the organization can access the system by clicking a web link, or optionally be using a Windows client. alfabets technical requirements are:

Web-Client

• Any PC with IE 6.0 or higher
• Session cookies

Windows-Client

• CPU 1 GHz or higher
• RAM 256 MB or higher
• Hard Disk 200 MB (installation) and 100 MB (temporary files)

Application-Server

• CPU Pentium IV
• RAM 1 GB minimum (4 GB recommended)
• Hard Disk: 500 MB for Software installation; up to 700 MB/pa to support database; 1 GB free space in the system temporary files directory (typical setup)

Web-Server

• CPU at least 1 Pentium IV, (multiprocessor recommended)
• RAM 1 GB minimum (4 GB recommended)
• Hard Disk: 500 MB; 1 GB free space in the runtime subdirectory of the Web application directory

Network

• 10 Mbit/s; 100 Mbit/s recommended

Operating system

• Windows client: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or higher, Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Vista
• Server: Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 3 or higher with MS IIS 5.0, Windows 2003 Server with MS IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET

Software and database requirements (distributed environment)

• IE 6.0 or higher for web client
• MS .NET 2.0 Framework (freeware) necessary for servers and Windows clients
• Database Server: MS SQL Server 2000, 2005 or Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g DBMS

Security

• Embedded backup functionality is provided
• Commercial backup and recovery mechanisms can be used to back up and recover the commercial DBMS

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