IBM alters New Year's Day price hikes: 'The biggest problem with this is the timing'

Big Blue makes another revision to impending price hikes due to take effect within three weeks

Nima Green
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IBM alters New Year's Day price hikes: 'The biggest problem with this is the timing'

Last month, CPI sister site CRN UK reported that customers in Europe, Japan, Morocco and South Africa, had been told by Big Blue that they faced software rises rises of 24 per cent. However, this week, IBM has made changes to the announcement whereby the rise in some SaaS products will be smaller than initially announced. The price increase in pound sterling is now set at 15 per cent. This marks the second change in policy around price hikes by IBM since September. (At the time, CRN ...

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