enables customers to move to bigger, higher-capacity servers and operating environments. For example, customers can move from Windows systems to AIX, SUN, or Linux systems. Clients The client machines. including the machines supporting browser clients, also need sufficient hardware resources to give the users the response time they require. For these clients, memory and CPU speed are the main requirements to manipulate and display the images. Refer to your favorites browser's hardware requirements, and allow extra resources to support the client side of the Web application and viewer applets if you plan to use them. Content Manager provides the client APIs on a range of platforms. Client APIs are available in Java on Windows 32-bit operating systems, AIX, Linux, and Sun Solaris, and the C++ APIs are supported on Windows 32-bit OSs and AIX. This increases your options for where and how to deploy client applications. Having the OO APIs available on Sun and AIX enables you to deploy thick clients or mid-tier servers on these platforms for performance, scalability, or server consolidation. 5.5 Library Server