Why shouldn't I run an Oracle database on a PDC?

Hi,
I haven't yet had the oportunity to work with any Oracle products so I'd like to find out the answer to the quesion of why I shouldn't run an Oracle database on a server that is acting as the PDC of a Windows NT domain. Here's the situation...

I'm purchasing a new server on which to have an Oracle database installed. The specs of the server are:

Dell Poweredge 1650
1.13 ghz processor
512 mb ram
36 gb HD

The DB is HR/payroll related. According to the documentation if there are roughly 5000 employees the Oracle db will require 2.6 gb. We have 80 employees whose records would be in the DB, so I imagine it would be considerably less. We would have only 2-3 people actually accessing the DB on a daily basis.

Our NT 4 domain has again, 80 users with a PDC and BDC on one subnet, and an additional BDC on a seperate subnet.

My boss has requested I make this new server the PDC of our domain, in addition to running DNS,DHCP and WINS.

So, considering the activities of this server as related to the NT domain and networking services, the specs of the server and the size and activity of the Oracle DB would it be ok to have all of these on the same server?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean Received on Fri May 30 2003 - 10:32:56 CDT