I could see them cheating with embedded cards saying they're not physically servers. HYRDA did that (me too) for security/efficiency purposes:

http://www.sentinelsecurity.us/HYDRA/hydraRTOS/hydraRTOS.htm...

It was a little PCI card. Even so, I'd ask the marketer or developer: could you please draw a logical representation of your client and services with lines showing data flows? Followed by (points) "there's the server(s)." :)