I used to be a developer with IBM and I was quite surprised that people actually paid for some of their products. The majority of the software sales were done a

I used to be a developer with IBM and I was quite surprised that people actually paid for some of their products. The majority of the software sales were done as a part of 'packages' and 'solutions'. There was very little innovation happening there. The only way any new 'solutions' were developed in the business were through acquisitions.