Mac Mini Server use

Can I use a Mac Mini with server software to access my accounting software (Quickbook for Mac) and other applications from an office in CA and an office in Arizona?

I see that it has been said you can use this with any software that would run on the standard OS but I have doubts from reading other forum posts . . .
I called in to sales to ask the following question (the sales person had not even heard of the MacMini Server):
Is there a development fork between OSX on the MacMini and OSX Server on the MacMini Server that would put updates on the server version behind the standard OS or that could prevent any software that runs on the standard OS from running on the server version?
She contacted someone (a software engineer?) for help in answering my question, but my confidence in the answer - you'll have no issues - is not great.
It would be awesome to have a specific answer to my question about the development of these two products so I may confidently purchase the server version without hesitation that something won't work on it because it is the server version of the OS . . . This info would be great to have on the MacMini server page as well.
So here are my questions now:
Can I simply purchase a new copy of iLife (as I understand it doesn't come with it) and use it on the server; I ask this partially answered question again because the iLife sales page makes it sound like an upgrade ("Upgrade to iLife"), and if I never had it on the server then how can it run iLife?
Secondly, is bootcamp not part of the OSX Server? I'd like to throw Windows on the other harddrive, but most solutions I've read in the forum involve using disks other than the OSX Server disk - like a client disk.
If the Server OS truly is just the client on steroids than it sounds like an awesome deal hardware wise, I'd I'd like to toy with some of the server features as well, but I don't want to find out that Final Cut doesn't run on it or anything else I might want that is made for OSX - software or hardware . . .

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