Preferred OS for an Oracle Server?

I'm part of a team that's going to be installing an Oracle 7 database system into an office that's currently using Novell 4.11.

We would prefer to install another Novell server that's dedicated just to running Oracle, however I've gotten some information from other outside sources that has suggested NT 4.0 would be a better platform for our new database server.

This database will probably be the bread and butter for company we're installing it for, although it's not a heavy site(70 or so users). Even so, we want to make sure this server is a stable as possible.

Do any of you have server OS opinions based on experience?

Any hardware suggestions? At the moment we're leaning on purchasing a Compaq Proliant 2500 or 3000. Would 64 or 128 megs of ram be enough, or should we look at putting in 256 megs instead?

Any thoughts or suggestions(or even pointers to some good papers) would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark Mealman
Tago Inc. Received on Fri Feb 20 1998 - 00:00:00 CST