SSL Certificates and ... Providers

[Blake Pfankuch <blake () pfankuch me>]

Ok, so this might be a little off topic but I am trying to validate something a vendor is telling me and hoping some 
people here have expertise in this area...

I am working with a SSL certificate provider.  I am trying to purchase a quantity of wildcard SSL certificates to cover 
about 60 FQDN's across 4 domains.  Vendor is telling me that the Wildcard certificates are licensed per physical device 
it is installed on.  This means instead of using a single wildcard across 20 servers, I would have to buy 20 wildcard 
certs for 20 servers.

This does not compute in my brain and also in my mind completely defeats the purpose of a wildcard cert as I know it.  
Has anyone run into this before?

Thanks
Blake