Workplace Designer is an Eclipse-based integrated development environment that gives you an easy way to use document-oriented programming without requiring a comprehensive knowledge of Java. Workplace Designer pre-release supports several database platforms, including IBM Cloudscape, DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. For more in-depth information, take a look at this introduction to Workplace Designer article.
From the article:
On the workstation, Workplace Designer runs within IBM Workplace on Linux and Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP. On the server, Workplace Designer applications run on Workplace Services Express 2.5 and Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 on all supported platforms.
From the download page:
The following are the system requirements for the Workplace Designer pre-release:
NOTE: These requirements are the most up-to-date. Refer to these instead of the requirements in the installation guide.
* The Workplace Collaboration Services server computer must have one of the supported Microsoft® Windows® operating systems:
o Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 4
o Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 4
o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
* The Workplace Managed Client computer must have one of the supported Microsoft Windows operating systems:
o Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2
o Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1
* The Workplace Collaboration Services server must use the IBM Cloudscape™ 5.1 database.
* Workplace Designer applications must be opened with an Internet Explorer browser.
* Memory:
o For a production environment, the server should have 4 GB of memory and the client should have 2 GB of memory.
o For a development environment, the server should have 2 GB of memory and the client should have 1 GB of memory.
* Disk space:
o The Workplace Designer Runtime Server requires 60 MB of disk space.
o The Workplace Designer Client requires 80 MB of disk space.
There is a contadiction here. Maybe someone from IBM could explain.