[lonelappde]

IBM charged the customer for each server.

[mikereedell]

or, as with my experience in licensing IBM stuff, the charged per CPU.

[jmspring]

I believe Oracle, IBM, and some others still charge per core/cpu for various products. It's a nice business model to be in if you have locked in customers.

[xenospn]

Hell yeah they did. The analytics software cost more than the actual solution.