Micro Focus VisiBroker 8.5 Platform Release Availability Matrix

First Available on 14-Feb-2011
Operating System Processor Bit Mode GA date Java C++ Comment
Supported JDK(s) Supported Compilers
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP

Windows Server 2008 (R2)
(Standard & Enterprise editions)
Includes Terminal Server
x86 32 Feb-11 Sun JDK 6 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
(SP1)
Embarcadero C++ Builder XE
(1) Any Embarcadero C++ sale must be approved by Product Management
 
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP

Windows Server 2008  (R2)
(Standard & Enterprise editions)
Includes Terminal Server
x64
(see note 2)
32/64 Feb-11 Sun JDK 6 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
(SP1)
           
Solaris 10 SPARC 32/64 Feb-11 Sun JDK 6 Sun Studio 11
Sun Studio 12 Update1
Solaris 10 x86/x64 32/64 Feb-11 Sun JDK 6 Sun Studio 11
Sun Studio 12 Update1
           
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0, 5.5 x86/x64 32/64 Mar-11 Sun JDK 6 gcc 4x
glibc 2.5.12
Tested on gcc 4.1.1, support any gcc 4.x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 x86/x64 32/64 Mar-12 Sun JDK 6 gcc 4.1.2
glibc 2.5.34
Tested on gcc 4.4.5, support any gcc 4.x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0,5.5 Itanium 64 TBD Sun JDK 6 gcc 4.1.2
glibc 2.5.34
Release timing depends on customer demand
           
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 x86/x64 32/64 Mar-11 Sun JDK 6 gcc 4.x
glibc 2.4-31.5
Tested on gcc 4.1.0, support any gcc 4.x
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 x86/x64 32/64 Mar-11 Sun JDK 6 gcc 4.x
glibc 2.11.1
Tested on gcc 4.3.4, support any gcc 4.x
           
HP UX 11i v3/11.31 PA-RISC 32/64 TBD HP JDK 6 aC++ 3.80
 aC++ 3.90
(std IO stream support)
In certification for Q1 2012 ; contact PM for availability
HP UX 11i v3/11.31 Itanium 32/64 Apr-11 HP JDK 6 aC++6.20
aC++ 6.25
(std IO stream support)
           
AIX 6 (v6.1) POWER 32/64 Apr-11 IBM JDK 6 XL C/C++ compiler v9
XL C/C++ compiler v10.1
(std IO stream support)
           
Montavista Linux CGE V4 x64
(see note 2)
64 Jun-11 Sun JDK 6 (1) MV Linux CGE
(2) Red Hat Linux 5
Includes cross-development image for Red Hat Linux 5
           
Note #1: A compiler and operating system point release (ie not a major release) will be supported as long as we have tested the prior major release.

Note #2: x64 processor terminology varies. x64 in the above table could be termed Intel 64, x86-64, AMD 64, EM64T or x64.

Note #3: All listed JDKs on the 64-bit platforms are 64-bit only.

Note #4: IPv6 support available in 8.5 on all platforms.

Note #5: VT (with ITS) supports 2PC with Oracle 11G R2 on Solaris Sparc only. Oracle 11g R2 supports require Pluggable Session Manager.

Note #6: VT PMT/ESQL feature is certified with Oracle 11G R2 only.

Note #7: CORBA 3.0 compliant, but CORBA Component Model (CCM) and GIOP 1.3 related features are not implemented.

Note #8: AIX 7.x is certified by IBM to support any application compiled for AIC V6 at: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/compatibility/index.html

Note #9: Backend store support for VisiNaming is as follows:

Database   JDBC Adapter - Driver Class
JDataStore 7.05   com.borland.datastore.jdbc.DataStoreDriver JDataStore JDBC Driver 007.005.009.000
Oracle 10G Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0)
Oracle 11G Release 2 (11.2.0.1.0)
  oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver Oracle driver (using classes12.zip Version 10.2.0.1.0)
Microsoft SQLServer 2008 R2   com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver Microsoft SQL Server 2008 JDBC Driver 1.1
 
LDAP Directory Server
OpenLdap 2.4.23
           
Note #10: Solaris x86 does not have a cpp security component. Upon request, this can be made available in a service pack.
Note #11: Supported developer languages for the Microsoft .NET framework are:
- Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
- Microsoft Visual C# .NET
- Microsoft Visual C++ .NET
- Microsoft Visual J# .NET
- Microsoft JScript (ECMAScript Edition 3)
Note #12: Solaris zones are supported.