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>>3. My Foxpro applications will be installed on server and they shud be able to run it..
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>Nope... win aps will not run on a Linux machine... but if you mean the .EXE and data files are on the Linux server that a client accesses and runs, yes. Although there are two windows emulators for Linux, WINE and WOBBIE that may run FoxPro... I have to admit, I haven't tried it.
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Neither is capable of running VFP, or much of any of the Win32 platform stuff.

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>COM is a Winders thing.. but, if you want to run a com component you can set up a seperate Win/NT workstation or server to run your COM servers... also, if your COM servers crash windows you don't loose NetWork services.
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There is limited support available to allow native ?nix apps access DCOM services, but there's no capability of hosting COM or DCOM using native Linux code, or running a Win32 COM component AFAIK. Certainly not one of the emulators.