Supported Platforms and Requirements

Supported Operating Systems:

You can deploy SoftwareShield to virtually any Windows operating system.

The table below shows the supported Windows operating systems on which you can install and run the SoftwareShield System Development Environment as well as which operating systems you can deploy the SoftwareShield protection components to protect your software.

The Development Environment column refers to the software developers OS only. This is where you will design, develop, compile, test and generate Activation Codes for your licenses that you will use to protect your applications. This is essentially the SoftwareShield Software Development Kit.

The Deployment column refers to the OS for your customers to whom you will deploy your applications which are protected by the SoftwareShield binary components and licenses. As you can see, virtually every Windows operating system is supported for deployment.

	Development Environment. Software Development Kit Operating Systems:	Deployment. Protect Your Software on any of these Operating Systems:
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows NT4 (no upgrades required)
Windows 2000
Windows XP (including SP2)
Windows Server 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista

Other Development System Requirements

To install the SoftwareShield System development environment please make sure that your system meets the minimum requirements:

• 1 Ghz CPU
• 32 MB RAM
• 20 MB free hard drive space
• Monitor resolution of (minimum) 1024 x 768

Other Deployment System Requirements

The only binary module of the SoftwareShield System you deploy along with your application is the ClientProtector dll. The minimum requirements your users must meet in order to use your software protected by SoftwareShield are:

• 133 Mhz CPU
• 4 MB RAM
• 1 MB hard drive space

Naturally, this is in addition to any minimum requirements your software imposes.

Server System Requirements

The Internet Edition of SoftwareShield comes with the Web-Activator. The Server Edition comes with the Web-Activator and the CheckPoint License Server. These server applications must run on a system that meets the following minimum requirements:

• Windows server running IIS 5.0.