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A '''Platform Specific Model''' is a model of a software or business system that is linked to a specific technological platform (e.g. a specific [[computingprogramming language]], [[operating system]] or [[database]]).

''Platform Specific Model''s are indispensable for the actual implementation of a system.

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The system will need to store information regarding users, goods, credit cards, etc.

You might decide that you will use for this purpose an [[Oracle]] [[database]].

For this to work you will need to express your concepts (e.g. the concept of an user) in a [[relational model]] using the [[Oracle database|Oracle]]'s [[SQL]] dialect.

This [[Oracle database|Oracle]]'s specific [[relational model]] is an example of a ''Platform Specific Model''.

The term ''Platform Specific Model'' is most frequently used in the context of [[Model Driven Architecture]]s.