Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Spooky23 3256 days ago
It's a hard question to answer. With this kind of gear IBM sells both the machine itself and compute capacity. You have a long term lease on the baseline workload, then lease some MIPS when you need it.

It's further clouded by virtual x86 and Linux workloads which have a different billing scale.

They also do stuff like provide "free" DR hardware that can only be activated in the event of an emergency.