Diskless DOS clients for Oracle?

Hi,

   We are a rural hospital serving the poor villages in outlying India. Our organization, Christian Medical College of Vellore, has about 150 diskless DOS PC's which remote boot off of a Novell Netware 3.11 network and run a DOS FoxPro client to access a FoxBase server.

   We would like to upgrade this FoxBase server to an Oracle RDBMS, but we weren't sure how the client side would be affected: we can't afford to replace the nodes, so we need client software that can run on 386's with no hard drive. If worst comes to worst, then a minimum client
configuration would be a 486 (again diskless).

  I was wondering if there is some way to develop DOS applications for a front end that would make SQL calls via ODBC to access the Oracle server. The client software would have to be obtained upon bootup, after remote booting off the NetWare server. We are all medical doctors, not computer people, so help in this area would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Vivek Mathew
vcmathew_at_cmcvellore.ac.in
Christian Medical College and Hospital
Vellore
Tamil Nadu
India

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