ORACLE Configuration

Hello

I am evaluating HW/SW for setting up an ORACLE unix server with Windows and OS/2 clients.

Some questions still confuse me:

• Should we run forms/reports/graphics from a file server or from the workstations disk ? Clients run WinOS2 and Windows 3.11.
• Recommended configuration CPU/disk/RAM for above clients ?
• Shall developpers start designer/2000 from a file server or locally ?
• Any experience in accessing Oracle on UNIX from a client running Smalltalk either on OS/2 Warp or Win95 ? Which SW is required ?
• Is there a way to access Oracle DBs without SQL which should be considrable faster than SQL ?

Thanks for any help

Roger Pitton / Swissair

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