Specifications include, but are not limited to: The University has a multi-platform environment consisting of eight IBM RS6000 servers (using AIX 5.2 and Oracle 11g) which run the University’s PeopleSoft development, test, and production database and application servers. During fiscal year 2012, the University will upgrade the infrastructure for the PeopleSoft enterprise systems to Intel based platforms running Red Hat operating systems, with Oracle 11g for the databases. OIT also manages and supports a Win2003/2008 server network which is highly virtualized using VMWare. There are approximately three thousand PCs running with Windows 2003/2007, and Windows XP, as well as approximately six hundred Apple workstations on campus. Boise State has standardized on Microsoft desktop applications for the business of the University.
