It will work OK. Both systems are implemented as Windows Services. I have a development server with four instances of SQL Server 2000 and an Oracle 8i system with 3 databases, I haven't seen any issues. Just make sure you have lots of memory, I would recommend 1GB.

Roman


>Sorry, I used the french acronym.... SGBD is DBMS. ;-)
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>Obviously, both engines whould compete for the server's ressources, but this is a contengency plan, so as long as user can do a minimal level of work, it's fine and temporary.