My co-worker told me last week that he is able to purchase one licence for certain Windows software and have The SuSe server access the windows server and the Individual Users access the SuSe server to use the Windows Software. Does that question make sense?
So it would look like

1.One Licence on Windows Server
2. SuSe Server access the Windows Server
3. Users Access SuSe server and use said licenced Program

How the heck is this possible?
Thanks!

this really means very little... something on linux acts as middle ware between clients and a windows server... could be a million different things, and a valid licensing model about a million different things could be a billion different things...

Well what's one way?

one way? erm... linux running an apache reverse proxy for an IIS web server...

you really are asking the wrong question, i just don't know what the right question is...

I guess what I'm trying to ask is:

Is it possible to launch programs from a windows server with a windows machine through some flavor of linux?

So you would see your network tree and see calculator.exe but it's not stored on the linux box it's stored on a windows server which the linux box is accessing.

Is that better?

I'm not trying to be difficult. Honest. So in theory (which is what the IT guy I work for said)

You could run an expensive program (like adobe or photoshop etc) On one Windows server. And access it through linux. And have all your clients access the linux box. (i think)

Oh And I can't ask him. I know what you're thinking but I just can't.

well wine / crossover office can run those apps, but with the sort of framework you appear to be hinting at, i've never seen it, and doubt there's a business case for inventing it.

I thought that wine had something to do with it, but then it seems like it would get confusing in the tangle of conversion and that would slow things way down, so I doubt it could run something like photoshop. Mmm But I suppose I could play around with a network to see I could open a file from a windows machine through linux---while the file is on a windows server.

Because the windows machine would have to do all the manipulation of the software for it to be legal.

But I think we're done with this topic chris, Thanks for all your help.