Court Orders IBM to Pay $1.6 Billion to BMC in Lawsuit Involving AT&T

Court Orders IBM to Pay $1.6 Billion to BMC in Lawsuit Involving AT&T
The IBM logo in the Garibaldi-Porta Nuova modern district of Milan, on June 22, 2021. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images
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A Houston federal judge ordered International Business Machines Corp. to pay $1.6 billion to BMC Software Inc. for swapping in its software while servicing their mutual client, Bloomberg reports.

The U.S. District Judge Gray Miller, after a seven-day non-jury trial, rejected IBM’s claim that their mutual client AT&T Inc., opted to switch software products on its own.