InfoPath is a Windows-only application. If your organization is working in a Windows-only environment, this should pose no problems. However, if portions of your webMethods product suite are running on other operating systems, such as UNIX or Linux, you may face some limitations.

For example, it should be possible to trigger a business process running on a UNIX system with an InfoPath e-form that arrives in the instances folder of your repository, assuming you have correctly imported the e-form template, created an IS document type, and configured the business process to use it.

However, if a user working on a non-Windows operating system downloads an InfoPath e-form from a task, it will not be possible for the user to actually work with the e-form in that environment, as the InfoPath application can only run in a Windows environment.

Therefore, if you plan to enable users to download InfoPath e-forms, work with them in their local environment, and then upload them back to a task, you must ensure that those users log on to My webMethods from a Windows operating system.

Software AG Designer and the run-time components (Integration Server, Process Engine, and Task Engine) can be implemented on non-Windows operating systems even when used with InfoPath e-forms.