New to Oracle Forms for EBS (not new to Oracle Forms) - can I run forms on my local PC and which ver

Let me expand upon my 2 questions so that it makes sense. First, and most important is that I am helping with the upgrade from E-Business Suites 11I to R12 and I just started working at the current company, so this is a little new to me. But, I have worked in Oracle Forms, before, at my past job.

My first question is because I just started working at this job and at my last job I used to do Oracle Forms and I would compile the Oracle Forms and run them on my local PC so that we would not have to constantly bother the DBA by moving the forms to the server, compile them, and then test them in the application. At my last job, I would compile the forms on my local PC and run them from my local PC. The ERP that I was using was SunGard Banner for higher education. Therefore, my first question