There
are no Operating System requirements to run BIRT, as it is a Java application and
should run on any platform that Java will run on. For the BIRT Report Designer,
any platform that will run Eclipse will work. Personally I have successfully run and
developed reports under Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. A fair word of warning to
the Mac folks: you are probably better off running under Parallels due to Eclipse's
poor performance under native OSX.
As far as hardware requirements are concerned, I would recommend at least a
Pentium 3 processor with at least 512 MB of RAM for the BIRT Report Designer. The
standalone Report Engine has much less stringent requirements, as it does not run
a full-blown instance of Eclipse. I would say 256 MB of RAM would be sufficient,
depending on the requirements of the application it is being embedded into.
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Installing BIRT
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Where Do I Get BIRT?
First, you want to download BIRT. The typical location for everything that is related to
BIRT is going to be the Eclipse website, at http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix.
This will bring you to the BIRT homepage. Here, you can get the latest news on BIRT,
including status of upcoming releases, news on books, conferences, and access to the
BIRT newsgroups where you can ask questions about BIRT. The newsgroups are an
excellent resource for BIRT questions, as they are frequented by the BIRT developers
and BIRT Project Management Committee members.
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