FileMaker - Desktop Configurations

ITAG Standard #8: Client applications must run on all currently supported desktop configurations.

Client Platforms

Supported platforms

Current FileMaker versions run on all supported versions of both Windows and Mac platforms. If you are using FileMaker as an ODBC client to the Data Warehouse, you must have the following installed on the client as well:

Windows:

• Oracle Client appropriate to data source. See http://web.mit.edu/software/win.html for current versions available for download to the MIT community

Mac:

• Actual Technologies ODBC driver for Oracle. You must be running version 2.x of this driver, with Advanced Security turned on if you wish to connect to an MIT enterprise Oracle system. See http://web.mit.edu/software/mac.html for current versions available for download to the MIT community.

Unsupported platforms

Unsupported versions of FileMaker, those prior to version 6, are not native to Mac OSX. Therefore, launching these products will automatically launch Mac Classic on PowerPC Macs. Mac Classic is not available on Intel Macs. Running an obsolete technology is not a recommended configuration; versions of FileMaker prior to version 8 are not supported at MIT. It is strongly recommended that Mac users be running at least FileMaker v8.5 to have Universal Binary compatibility.

FileMaker is not supported on Linux. Nor is it available through MIT's Citrix service. If you run your own Terminal Services and Citrix server, and wish to make FileMaker available to Linux users, see http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/documentation/fm8_terminal_services.pdf and http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/documentation/fm8_citrix_guide.pdf for more information. This is not a supported configuration for running FileMaker on the MIT network.