>I'm not clear about this. If run an exe from a newtwork drive aren't in effect copying it to my local PC anyway. Its not actually running on the network server. So assuming users open the application at the start of the day thats only one hit on the server.
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>Plus you don't end up with many copies of the application on different workstations.
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Run a network sniffer on the lan when you have a system configured as above and then try it with the exe, dlls and any temp files on the local workstation. It should validate what is being said here. Additionally, suppose you wanted to move your app to a fat client that pulls data over the internet?