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ColdFusion 8 system requirements

Windows

  • Intel® Pentium® II or AMD Athlon processor
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3; Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, or Datacenter Server with Service Pack 3; Windows Server® 2003 Web, Standard, or Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 and R2; Windows Server® 2008; Windows XP Professional or Home Edition; or Windows Vista®
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 500MB of available hard-disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive

Macintosh

  • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or Intel Pentium 4 processor
  • Mac OS X v.10.4.x, 10.5.x
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 500MB of available hard-disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive

Linux

  • Intel Pentium II or AMD Athlon processor
  • Red Hat® Linux® AS or ES 3.0, 4.0, or 5.0; SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 9 or 10
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 500MB of available hard-disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive

Solaris

  • SPARC® processor
  • Solaris™ 9 or 10
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 500MB of available hard-disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive

AIX (RS/6000)

  • POWER3 processor
  • IBM® AIX® 5L 5.2 or 5.3
  • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 500MB of available hard-disk space
  • DVD-ROM drive

ColdFusion 8 systems support matrix


Key:  ColdFusion Standard is supported in 32-bit mode for this platform.
Microsoft® Windows® 32-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Windows XP Professional or Home Edition Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3 Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server with Service Pack 3 Yes Yes Yes
Windows Server® 2003 Web, Standard, Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 and R2 Yes Yes Yes
Windows Server® 2008 Yes Yes Yes
Windows Vista™ Service Pack 1 Yes Yes Yes
Web servers
IIS 5, 6, 7 Yes Yes Yes
Apache 2.0.43 Yes Yes Yes
Apache 2.2 Yes Yes Yes
Adobe JRun™ HTTP Server No No No
Sun™ Web Server 6.1 and 7 No Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
WebLogic 8.1, 9.2, 10 No Yes Yes
WebSphere 5.1.1, 6.1, 6.1 ND No Yes Yes
Oracle Application Server 10g R1-R3 No Yes Yes
JRun 4 Updater 7 No Yes Yes
JBoss 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.2 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun JDK 1.4.2_14, 1.5_13, and 1.6_04 Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft® Windows® 64-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Key:  ColdFusion Standard is supported in 32-bit mode for this platform.
Windows XP Professional x64 Service Pack 2 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Windows Server® 2003 Web, Standard, Enterprise Edition x64 with Service Pack 2 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Windows Server® 2008 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Windows Vista™ Service Pack 1 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Web servers
IIS 6, 7 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Apache 2.2.4, 2.2.6 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Adobe JRun™ HTTP Server 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
WebLogic 10 No Yes Yes
WebSphere 6.1, 6.1 ND No Yes Yes
JRun 4 Updater 7 No Yes Yes
JBoss 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.2 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun JDK 1.5.0_12, 1.6.0_04 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Macintosh 32-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Mac OS X 10.4.7, 10.4.8, 10.4.9 Yes Yes Yes
Web servers
Apache 1.3.27 Yes Yes Yes
Apache 2.0.43 Yes Yes Yes
Apache 2.2 Yes Yes Yes
JRun HTTP Server No No Yes
J2EE application servers
JRun 4 Updater 7 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun/Apple JDK 1.4.2_14,1.5_07 Yes Yes Yes
Macintosh 64-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Key:  ColdFusion Standard is supported in 32-bit mode for this platform.
Mac OS X Intel 10.5.0, 10.5.1 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Web servers
Apache 2.2.6 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Adobe JRun™ HTTP Server 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
JRun 4 Updater 8 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun/Apple JDK 1.5.0_13 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Linux® 32-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Red Hat® Linux AS and ES 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 Yes Yes Yes
SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 9 or 10 Yes Yes Yes
Web servers
Apache 2.0.43 Yes Yes Yes
Apache 2.2 Yes Yes Yes
JRun HTTP Server No No Yes
Sun Web Server 6.1 and 7 Yes Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
WebLogic 8.1, 9.2, 10 No Yes Yes
WebSphere 5.1.1, 6.1, 6.1 ND No Yes Yes
JRun 4 Updater 7 No Yes Yes
JBoss 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.2 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun JDK 1.4.2_14, 1.5_13, and 1.6_04 Yes Yes Yes
Linux® 64-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Key:  ColdFusion Standard is supported in 32-bit mode for this platform.
Red Hat® Linux AS 5.0 x86_64 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes

SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 10.1*, 10.2*
*glibc-2.5-25 is required

32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Web servers
Apache 2.2.4, 2.2.6 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Adobe JRun™ HTTP Server 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
WebLogic 10 No Yes Yes
WebSphere 6.1, 6.1 ND No Yes Yes
JRun 4 Updater 7 No Yes Yes
JBoss 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.2 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun JDK 1.5.0_12, 1.6.0_04 32-bit Mode Only Yes Yes
Solaris™ 64-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
Solaris 9 or 10 for SPARC No Yes Yes
Web servers
Apache 2.0.43 No Yes Yes
Apache 2.2 No Yes Yes
JRun HTTP Server No No Yes
Sun Web Server 6.1 and 7 No Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
J2EE application servers
WebLogic 8.1, 9.2, 10		 No Yes Yes
WebSphere 5.1.1, 6.1, 6.1 ND No Yes Yes
JRun 4 Updater 7 No Yes Yes
JBoss 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.2 No Yes Yes
Oracle Application Server 10g R1-R3 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun JDK 1.4.2_14,1.5_13, and 1.6_04 No Yes Yes
AIX® (RS/6000®) 32-bit Standard Enterprise Developer
Operating systems
IBM® AIX 5L 5.2, 5.3 No Yes Yes
Web servers
Apache 1.3.28 (for WebSphere 5.1.1) No Yes Yes
Apache 2.2 No Yes Yes
Apache 2.0.47 (for WebSpehere 5.1.1), 2.0.54 (for WebSphere 6.1) No Yes Yes
IBM HTTP Server for WAS No Yes Yes
J2EE application servers
WebSphere 5.1.1, 6.1, 6.1 ND No Yes Yes
Oracle Application Server 10g R1-R3 No Yes Yes
JDK
Sun JDK 1.4.2_14,1.5_13, and 1.6_04 No Yes Yes
Database platform support included Standard Enterprise Developer
Apache Derby 10.2.2.0 Yes Yes Yes
MS Access 2000, 2003, 2007 (Windows only) Yes Yes Yes
MS SQL Server 7.0, 2000, 2005 Yes Yes Yes
MySQL 3, 4.1, and 5.0 Yes Yes Yes
PostgreSQL 8.1 Yes Yes Yes
DB2 UDB for Windows, UNIX,® Linux v7.x, v8.x, and v9.1 No Yes Yes
DB2 UDB for for z/OS and OS/390 v7.x, v8.1 No Yes Yes
DB2 UDB for iSeries V5R1, V5R2, V5R3, V5R4 No Yes Yes
Informix Dynamic Server 9.2x, 9.3x, 9.4x, 10.x No Yes Yes
Oracle 8i R2-R3 8.1.7 No Yes Yes
Oracle 9i R1-R2 including RAC support No Yes Yes
Oracle 10g R1-R2 including RAC support No Yes Yes
Sybase Adaptive Server 11.5 No Yes Yes
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.0, 12.5.x, 15, and 15.5.x No Yes Yes

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