Jul 25, 2003 : IBM Launches Server Financing Program

📅 July 25, 2003 - IBM (ibm.com) announced today its ?Power to Choose? program, a new offering that allows qualified customers to choose between making lower payments with reduced financing rates or deferring all payments at no charge until 2004.

No interest is charged during the deferral and standard financing rates apply when payments begin.
IBM's ?Power to Choose? offering is available for customers of IBM hardware, including iSeries, xSeries and pSeries eServers, TotalStorage, PCs, Store Systems, Printing Systems and software and services.
The offering ends September 30 in the United States, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.
"Many companies today are faced with the difficult challenge of upgrading and expanding their e-business infrastructure while trying to limit expenses," said Belinda Tang, vice-president and general manager at IBM Global Financing, IBM Canada Ltd. "IBM has broken new ground with this offering, giving customers the flexibility to acquire what they need to grow their business while providing aggressive financing to help manage budgets. We?re making it simpler and more affordable to acquire cutting-edge technology that can drive a faster return on the customer's investment."
IBM Global Financing also announced it is offering an interest-free lease payment deferral until 2004 on 6xx, Sxx and 7xx to 8xx iSeries eServer upgrades, which is then followed by preferred rate financing for these iSeries eServer customers.