11.5.9 and Discoverer 10g

Our 11.5.9 E-Bis is on two nodes: Forms/Web are on W2000, and "everything else" is on HPUX. We are in the process of moving the Forms/Web to W2003, and upgrading Disco from 4i to 10G. We want to do it as follows: 1) move the E-Business to the new W2003 node. 2) Setup a separate AS10G for the Disco 10G. on that same W2003 node.
My question: Will W2003 handle the multiple oracle homes? So there will be an oracle home for the E-Bis, and oracle homes for the AS10G (the infrastructure instance and the Disco10g). Or, should we have two W2003 nodes - one for E-Bis, and one for the AS10G Disco stuff?
Thanks.
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CJJ

It might work, but you are better off keeping them on separate machines in case the AS10G install starts to break autoconfig on the Apps side.
AutoConfig is exiting with Status 2 on DB-Tier
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=356927.1
Adconfig.cmd Hangs When Starting Apps Listener
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=260365.1
You would be much better off having the Apps tier on Linux. My biggest complaints about windows are you have to shutdown all services to patch, and you cannot run adconfig from a RDP or Terminal Services session, you have to be directly on the console. This is hard to do if your console is a blade and you do not have machine room access. Also, AS10g (10.1.2 and 10.1.3) play together with EBS better on Linux where you do not have to worry about your registry getting hosed and all of a sudden find yourself unable to restart the applications processes.

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