Bjorn,

Vince forwarded your message to me.  

I think it is a relatively easy task to achieve the synchronization with Houston's Exotica Options Library.
Just install Houston's Exotica.xll in London office, which will not take more than one hour. 
We can routinely ship the excutable whenever we update the library for installation in London.


There are good reasons to do this:

1)  We make changes to Exotica frequently. In this sense, it is very hard to keep 
ONE version across the company if offices outside Houston want to maintain their own
version.

2)  It is not necessary and cost effective to maintain different versions. As matter of fact, it is harmful
to have different versions. At the end of the day, it is Enron's P/L, different versions of Exotica would
produce a small difference in per unit basis, however, this difference could  be amplified to 
a large discrepency due to the large trade volumes. 

3) The London research plans to rewrite Exotica in C++. In our view, Exotica's routine is
small and self-contained, the objective programming will not add much value to it. While
it is nice to have a C++ version, but we think it should be assigned a low priority. We 
are not moving to C++ any time soon in Houston. 


Let me know if this answers your question. My phone number is 713-853-6388.


Zimin Lu





 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Kaminski, Vince J  
Sent:	Friday, May 25, 2001 1:00 PM
To:	Hagelmann, Bjorn
Cc:	Lu, Zimin; Kaminski, Vince J
Subject:	RE: Exotica's different versions

Bjorn,

I don't think the scope of the project is really that big. When we looked
into it, it seemed like a relatively minor issue. 

To me, it's  really a matter of routine maintenance that should not be
an equivalent of a Desert Storm operation.

Zimin and I will call Slava on Tuesday and determine what has to be done.


Vince

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Hagelmann, Bjorn  
Sent:	Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:48 PM
To:	Murphy, Ted; Kaminski, Vince J
Subject:	FW: Exotica's different versions

Vince:

We had discussed this briefly before I went on vacation. What did you want to do with this?

Regards

Bj?rn Hagelmann
Director
Rac - Market Risk Management
E-Mail: bjorn.hagelmann@enron.com
Office:  + 1 713 345 7984
Mobil:   + 1 713 302 5279


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Danilov, Viacheslav  
Sent:	Tuesday, May 22, 2001 02:25
To:	Hagelmann, Bjorn
Cc:	Nath, Tani; Gibner, Stinson
Subject:	Exotica's different versions

Hi Bjorn,

some time ago we, you, Stinson and I, had a meeting in Houston regarding having the same versions for Houston and London.

We agreed that you would talk to Ted Murphy to get his support for this project. I know that Ted did not come to Houston at the time he planned and therefore you were not able to talk to him (you were on holidays when he came to Houston).

This project is really big (several man month work) and we cannot do this without Ted's support. You know that requests from RAC are always taken very seriously.

Please, could you talk to Ted to get his support.

many thanks,

Slava