SuSE 8 - Do I need the windows partition?

I am groping my way through learning Linux, and have a small network of Windows NT PC's, with an ADSL connection. I now have SuSE Linux 8 installed on a PC connected to the LAN. This PC was setup with a small (2Gb) NT4 partition, and the remaining 18Gb for SuSE. I am still struggling with Samba, printing, and other issues, but can use Konqueror to browse the net from SuSE. I have a number of programs that I use under windows, they may or may not run under Linux using Wine...that remains to be tested. My aim would be to move totally to Linux if I can. Now the question is, do I need to keep the NT4 partition on this Linux box to be able to test my windows application software? John