As Oracle administrator you can get all supported platforms with the following code: SET lines 100 pages 999 col platform_name format a35 col endian_format format a13 SELECT platform_name,endian_format,platform_id FROM v$transportable_platform ORDER BY platform_name ASC; Here a sample out put for an Oracle 11g installation PLATFORM_NAME ENDIAN_FORMAT PLATFORM_ID ----------------------------------- ------------- ----------- AIX-Based Systems (64-bit) Big 6 Apple Mac OS Big 16 Apple Mac OS (x86-64) Little 21 HP IA OPEN VMS Little 19 HP OPEN VMS Little 15 HP Tru64 UNIX Little 5 HP-UX IA (64-bit) Big 4 HP-UX (64-bit) Big 3 IBM POWER Based Linux Big 18 IBM zSeries Based Linux Big 9 Linux IA (32-bit) Little 10 Linux IA (64-bit) Little 11 Linux x86 64-bit Little 13 Microsoft Windows IA (32-bit) Little 7 Microsoft Windows IA (64-bit) Little 8 Microsoft Windows x86 64-bit Little 12 Solaris Operating SYSTEM (x86) Little 17 Solaris Operating SYSTEM (x86-64) Little 20 Solaris[tm] OE (32-bit) Big 1 Solaris[tm] OE (64-bit) Big 2