Clients accessing applications installed on the server

I am about to install a Mac mini server in a home environment with network user accounts and home directories of all users stored on the server. Ah! yes, centralized management of users and easy backup of ALL user home folders from a single location - sounds fantastic. That leaves only one caveat...
With network user accounts, a user can log into his / her account from any of the macs in the house and have access to his home folder but what good is this arrangement if a given application isn't installed on all the computers? How is this common scenario handled in a client server environment? Ofcourse, one could install the application on each individual computer which would be tedious or the application could be installed on the server. In the latter case, what about performance? I plan to connect all the stationary iMacs to the server with Powerline Ethernet (sorry, took the short cut, I wasn't about to open the walls to install proper Ethernet cabling :o)), The Powerline Ethernet solution gives me about 120Mbs speed (which is definitely better than Wi-Fi esp. in terms of reliability and availability - no Wi-Fi cut outs when the microwave goes on!).
I will have only two iMacs as clients (for now) + my MacBook Pro with portable home directory. Could I get away with installing some third party applications on the server (and avoid having to install it on both the iMacs)? Are there any issues with this approach - especially that they are third party applications and are not from Apple, will they behave as they should?
What's the advice?
Any good resources?
Thanks much!
Kenneth

Many applications install components elsewhere than just the application itself, and in most cases the application is hard-coded to look for those components in specific locations on the client workstation. With those components not on the client workstation, the application won't run. I'm guessing that this is the case with the applications you're having problems with and for those, without a lot of probably fragile work with symlinks, they're not going to run from your server. You'll probably need to install those applications on each client (I presume you already have sufficient licenses for each workstation, so it's just a matter of the work involved in the installation).
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