Installation manual

Supported Technologies Virtualization

Release Notes for Release 9.1 Service Pack 3 (9.1.30151.0) Page 17

Mac OSX Client Configurations

Safari 5.0 Safari 4.0 Safari 3.2 Firefox 3.6 Firefox 3.5.x

Mac OSX 10.5

“Leopard”

Compatible Compatible Unsupported Compatible Compatible

Mac OSX 10.6

“Snow Leopard”

Certified

Compatible Unsupported

Certified

Compatible

Accessibility and JAWS

Blackboard strives to make all its products as accessible as possible. JAWS for Windows 9 and

10 were used during accessibility testing.

JRE Support

Blackboard Learn requires the latest version of Sun JRE 6. The JRE can be downloaded from

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. Windows System Administrators who want to

provide auto-download for users can find the.cab file link for the appropriate JRE at

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jre/autodownload.html.

No Longer Supported

The following technologies are not supported:

• Internet Explorer 6

• Firefox 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0

• Safari 2.0 and 3.x

• Mac OSX 10.4 “Tiger”

• Java 5

Virtualization

VMware® ESX Server 4 (Linux® and Windows®) is the only configuration Certified by

Blackboard for Release 9.1.

Blackboard supports other virtualization solutions as long as Blackboard and the hypervisor

support the guest operating system.

In addition to VMware, Blackboard has experience with Citrix XenServer 5.5, Solaris 10 Zones

and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 & 5 Xen™.