Platforms
policy
Off-the-shelf availabilty
The latest release of Xpress-MP is available off-the-shelf for the following platforms:
| Platform | Operating System | Processor |
| Windows 32bit | Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista | AMD Duron/Intel Pentium3 or later x86 CPU |
| Windows 64bit | Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista | Any AMD64 or Intel EM64T enabled 64bit CPU |
| Windows 64bit | Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 | Itanium 2 |
| Linux 32bit | RedHat 9 (glibc2.3+) compatible | AMD Duron/Intel Pentium3 or later x86 CPU |
| Linux 64bit | RedHat 9 (glibc2.3+) compatible | Any AMD64 or Intel EM64T enabled 64bit CPU |
| Solaris 32bit | Solaris 7-10 | Sun Ultra Sparc 3 or later |
| Solaris 64bit | Solaris 7-10 | Sun Ultra Sparc 3 or later |
| Solaris 64bit | Solaris 10 | Any AMD64 or Intel EM64T enabled 64bit CPU |
| AIX 32bit | AIX 5.1 | IBM PowerPC |
| AIX 64bit | AIX 5.1 | IBM PowerPC |
| HP-UX 32bit | HP-UX 11+ | HP PA-RISC |
| HP-UX 64bit | HP-UX 11+ | HP PA-RISC |
| HP-UX 64bit | HP-UX 11+ | Itanium 2 |
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Other platforms
The following platforms can be made available for the latest release. Please contact your nearest sales office for more information.
| Platform | Operating System | Processor |
| Linux 32bit | RedHat 6 (glibc2.2) compatible | AMD Duron/Intel Pentium3 or later x86 CPU |
| Linux 64bit | RedHat 9 (glibc2.3+) compatible | Itanium 2 |
| Linux 64bit | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 | IBM PowerPC |
| Mac | Mac OS X 10.3.8+ | PowerPC G4 or G5 |
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Exceptions and Qualifications
Xpress-IVE and Xpress-XAD are available on Windows 32bit and 64bit platforms only ( excluding Itanium 2 ).
Xpress-XL is available on Windows 32 platforms only. It requires Microsoft Excel 97, Excel 2000, or Excel XP.
The operating systems covered by these broad platforms include many different variants and versions. In general, Xpress-MP will move to support the latest variant/version of an operating system within six months of it becoming generally available and sufficiently reliable for our purposes. This means that we will publish one set of binaries for the underlying operating system suitable for use on the new variant/version.
Where possible, these binaries will be backwards compatible by at least one step (and more if possible), i.e., they will run on earlier variants/versions of the operating system. However, this may not be possible if the platform manufacturer has withdrawn the hardware, or made substantial changes to the hardware and/or operating system which make it impossible to maintain backwards compatibility.
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