The following is the official system requirements from Microsoft. With today’s hardware pricing, it would be difficult to buy an off the shelf system that cannot handle the hardware requirements. The only requirement from Microsoft side is really the O/S. The DotNet framework and database drivers are free. Together with Tornado, you’ll have everything you need to develop the most supplicated web DB applications.
To ensure adequate performance, the .NET Framework has the following minimum and recommended system requirements for client and server applications.
Operating System Requirements
The .NET Framework is supported on the following platforms.
| SCENARIO | OPERATING SYSTEM |
|---|---|
| Client | Microsoft® Windows® 98 Microsoft® Windows® 98 Second Edition Microsoft® Windows® Millennium Edition Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 Workstation with Service Pack 6.0a or later Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 Server with Service Pack 6.0a or later Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Datacenter Server Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 family
|
| Server | Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2.0 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server with Service Pack 2.0 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 2.0 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Datacenter Server with Service Pack 2.0 Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 family |
Additional Software Requirements
To use additional features such as ASP.NET, COM+ services, and SQL Server .NET Data Provider, you will need the following additional software.
| SCENARIO | FEATURE | REQUIRED SOFTWARE |
|---|---|---|
| Client | SQL Server .NET Data Provider | Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.6 or later |
| Access to system management information | Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) (installed with operating system on Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows XP) | |
| COM+ services | Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.0 | |
| Server | SQL Server .NET Data Provider | Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.7 |
| ASP.NET | Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 |
Hardware Requirements
| SCENARIO | REQUIRED PROCESSOR | RECOMMENDED PROCESSOR | REQUIRED RAM | RECOMMENDED RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client (Windows Forms and Windows Services) | Pentium 90 MHz* | Pentium 90 MHz or faster | 32 MB* | 96 MB or higher |
| Server | Pentium 133 MHz* | Pentium 133 MHz or faster | 128 MB* | 256 MB or higher |
*Or the minimum required by the operating system, whichever is higher.