Oracle on Linux

[shantanu125]

Hi buddies,
We have an application ,the GUI is in power Builder and backend is Oracle8.0.Our whole network is an NT4 network. As
Microsoft will stop supporting NT4 in a while.
meaning that we have to upgrade our servers and workstations to something else. This would also imply changing the oracle server, as I don't want Oracle to run on a not-supported platform.
I want to Install a linux server. Install the latest oracle on this server. Import the database. Then, install the application , and connect to this server.
Will there be any problem in this as our frontend can only run on windows machine.Also will it not violate the Oracle license agreement.
please help......
shantanu

 

[StarTAC]

Mmmmm, well, I know SuSE Linux currently supports the latest versions of Oracle. You may need to contact SuSE Linux and/or Oracle to see if they can get you a good deal on switching.

The database should be transparent to either OS, across the board, since it's SQL. I beleive you can port your database to your Linux installation, if you do make the switch.

Good luck.