Acmii,
Moving the DB to another box should be easy to do and can be done. I have had DBA's move Oracle DB's fom windows to Linux all of the time. Just make sure that they use the DBT files when they create the new DB in Linux.
I am not a DBA, but any good DBA will know how to import the data from one DB to another. Many DBA's use data pump to import the data. I will leave it up to your DBA to know whats best.
Overall there are NO Con's to doing this.. overall you will get better perforance from BOTH the Console and the DB, since they are not sharing resources.
Good Luck
Ronak
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