# System Requirements

The CopyStorm/Director application comes in two flavors:

* The CopyStorm/Director Desktop
* The CopyStorm/Director Browser Application

Capstorm recommends starting with the desktop version. The web browser application can always be configured later and used concurrently with the desktop version.

## CopyStorm/Director Desktop

* Windows: XP/Vista/7/8/Server, both 32 and 64-bit.
* Linux: Ubuntu, RHEL, Suse, Fedora, etc…
* Mac OS
* VMWare, Amazon/AWS, Microsoft Cloud, and other hosted environments.
* Java 7 or higher.
  * A Java JRE is packaged with CopyStorm/Director Windows distributions.

## CopyStorm/Director Browser Application

* Servlet container using Java 7 or higher.
  * Capstorm develops using Tomcat7 and Jetty.

## Common Requirements

Both flavors of CopyStorm/Director require a relational database and a user with CREATE/ALTER TABLE permissions. The database can be any of the following:

* SQL/Server
* Oracle
* PostgreSQL
* MySQL


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