Re: One of my US suppliers increased prices twice yesterday.
"If you are an SME or on the small end of a large organisation and you have pricing agreements with Oracle. Microsoft or Adobe that stops them putting up the price of goods where no prior purchase contract exists or you are supplied fuel from xyz and they have agreed a fix fuel costs for the next x years then I would be very sceptical."
Or just buy in advance. You know, like a fixed price 3 year Office365 contract or when buying your software via volume licensing (of any size business) then pay extra for software assurance. Current Sterling wobble has zero impact on me adding another 200 users or whatever to our licensing - not at least until renewal time but even then I can back off / forward by a month or two to take advantage of what the markets are doing then.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
