Host Platforms
Prior to releasing Oracle 9i in 2001, Oracle Corporation ported its database product to a wide variety of platforms. More recently Oracle Corporation has consolidated on a smaller range of operating-system platforms.
As of November 2011, Oracle Corporation supported the following operating systems and hardware platforms for Oracle Database 11g (11.2.0.2.0):
- zLinux64
- Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows (x64)
- Linux x86
- Linux x86-64
- Solaris (SPARC) (64-bit)
- Solaris (x86-64)
- HP-UX Itanium
- HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit)
- AIX (PPC64)
In 2011, Oracle Corporation announced the availability of Oracle Database Appliance, a pre-built, pre-tuned, highly available clustered database server built using two SunFire X86 servers and direct attached storage.
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