Mac OS X Server (Intel) non existent?

I ordered a Mac Pro a few weeks ago - today I learned that there's another delay. We planned on using the thing as a server for a PC lab. As it looks, all that's holding up the shippment is OS X Server - looks to me as though the software isn't available at all.
Has anyone gotten his Mac Pro with a server license?
If OS X server really isn't ready - why don't they just let the customers know? In our case, the beginning of the semester is getting closer and closer and I'm getting really worried here. I'll probably have to go with a Linux server if the Mac Pro doesn't ship by next week

Mac os X server on intel does exist but i dare think it is NOT yet ready for limelight ... i just tried to test out to transfer stuff and system from an MBP to a stock Mac Pro .... no go at all the system hangs on me (meaning there are differences in between the Core Duo install and the Xeon one making cross booting impossible at the time i type this ( you cannot install on a MacBookPro a 10.4.x client and install your stuff then clone it up as a target drive to your brand spanking MacPro) .
... Mac os X server is as far as my guesses go still in the development cycle and as you may well know from reading the 10.4.7 server forum there are yet a load of pitfalls and gaps in this version of mac os X server. However the community keeps trying to figure some of them out.
As far as my Mac Pro CTO is concerned i have also been bumped way far into the shipdate and started to work things out on a stock machine whose video card does not even support a 30 inch screen (running at 1280x800 on a 30inch .. how worse can it get ??? ) ...
At the present time if you would need a server deployment yesterday a PPC machine would do great , if on the other hand you want the latest hardware and software build there does not seem to be easy ways since 16GB ram configuration got bumped to september 20th at the earliest time Euro side, that high end video card seem to create problems (Nvidia !!!) .
And last but not least that some of the operating system dont allow much at all in terms of cross or upgrading ... as with all new Apple Hardware stabilization takes time and loads of corrections.
If you need a linux solution that would be ready to deploy last year ,i would suggest you look for ubuntu builds there seems to be good things there , i have however NO idea of how the things behave on a Mac Pro at this time since i am just in the very first steps with the stock machine at hand that performs lamely because of a total lack of ram (1GB is such a bad Joke) and sports a video card my 5 year old Wintel would consider a joke for any 3D design.

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