Linux Application Server?

[Terrence Robbins]

I am totally new to linux, and my boss (I am a practicum student) just dropped off a dual-processor NetFinity server for me to play with :-), and he wants Red Hat on it, which I can do, and he wants it to be an application server to serve windoze *ugh* apps to windoze boxes. Any ideas on how this can be accomplished

[gwhitney]

Like what? MS Office?

[Terrence Robbins]

Yeah, Office, and some other apps which I am not sure of. They are windows apps, and maybe a netware app, and we have to serve them from a linux Red Hat server.

[crazyox2]

How many office licenses do you have? I will call 1-888 NO PIRACY and get you busted.

No, just being silly. I hate the BSA! (The Business Software Alliance, not the Boy Scouts of America; Boy Scouts are awesome!)

[YaRness]

ugh, i ran office from a net server at my last job, drove me fscking batty when the servers went down and i couldn't work on a blasted thing.

how much of the setup and execution of a network-based office install is run on the client side? if all the windows boxes need is to see the files (as opposed to some weird office server app that does configuration or some other lame *** thing), then it should be highly possible to do what you want; i'm sure there are apps for linux for setting up network drives and stuff.

wish i knew more concrete stuff, but i don't :(

*resists OT post*
someone can start a flame thread about the other BSA somewhere else. :P

[bdg1983]

Caldera does have a Application Server with Tarantella (http://www.caldera.com/products/appserver/). You can d/l eServer 2.3 for free, but I believe there is a cost for Tarantella.