OS for P3.1, P5 and P6
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James BarnesMember for 19 years 1 month
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I have done a forum search and there are several threads where this has been discussed before, but I can’t find a definitive and complete answer. I have also trawled Primavera’s website with limited success.
What I can gather;
P3.1 - certified to run on OS upto Windows XP (all flavours...?) has been tested on Vista 32 but not certified by Pv. tested as not working on Vista 64
P6 - requires XP Professional or Vista Buisiness
P5 - ??????
We will be implementing P5 here soon and are not getting a straight answer out of the local distributors as to what the OS requirements are. That said, we are still on W2000 so I suppose we are up the creek without the preverbial paddle...?
As this will be a large network installation, I suppose that it’s possible that the OS requirements involve the version of SQL server bundled with them, in which case we might get around a core OS conflict by buying the database server separately.
One would think that the IT guys would have this all under control, but there you go...
What I can gather;
P3.1 - certified to run on OS upto Windows XP (all flavours...?) has been tested on Vista 32 but not certified by Pv. tested as not working on Vista 64
P6 - requires XP Professional or Vista Buisiness
P5 - ??????
We will be implementing P5 here soon and are not getting a straight answer out of the local distributors as to what the OS requirements are. That said, we are still on W2000 so I suppose we are up the creek without the preverbial paddle...?
As this will be a large network installation, I suppose that it’s possible that the OS requirements involve the version of SQL server bundled with them, in which case we might get around a core OS conflict by buying the database server separately.
One would think that the IT guys would have this all under control, but there you go...
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Oldest first- 0Ronald Winter ·Not really wanting to confuse you even further, but I wonder why your company is “implementing P5?” P5 is not a current product. Buying P5 is like going to the New Car Dealership and buying last year’s model. “P5” is actually Primavera Enterprise, Version 5 while “P6” is Primavera Enterprise Version 6. P6 replaced P5 around 6 months ago.
Why are you buying old software? Who is selling you software that should soon be no longer supported by Primavera? (By this last statement, I mean that Primavera has posted their company policy of dropping support for software a year after it is discontinued, which was 6 months ago.)
To answer your question, P5 was a ‘honey’ that ran on just about everything. I ran it on my laptop with 125 Mb of RAM using the ME operating system. P6 is a ‘hog’ that requires the best your computer can put out. Primavera quotes 1.5 GB of RAM and a really fast CPM. The operating system limitations are caused by Microsoft not supporting their own SQL database server software unless you use the professional OS editions. Good luck!
- 0James Barnes ·Ronald
I am aware that P6 is the revision of P5, I am not in procurement but I suppose that it may be operating environment issues that are pushing our guys towards P5. If you say it can run on ME then that’s probably it for us. We are still on W2000 here and, while they could probably just upgrade certain W/stations to support P6, it’s unlikely that they will want to. Neither will they want to update the OSs for all W/stations (in the hundreds) just for a couple of planners.
Frankly, the only reason we’re looking at migrating away from 3.1 at all is Pv keep saying they’ll stop support for it, although the actual deadline keeps shifting and I’ve heard Pv quoted saying they won’t discontinue support while they have a critical mass of customers willing to pay for that support, which at least makes sound business sense to me.
and btw, I always ask for a price on last year’s model when looking for a new car / bike / whatever ... good place to find bargains!
thanks for your advice guys, next time someone asks me about OSs and Pv I’ll have a little more of an idea what to say!
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