Louise there are a lot of issues which will add to the costs of acquiring the applications.  The collection of all of the offers, awards and the historical database should have value to us.  If we decide that the value is there then we would be looking at additional expenses to have SSI continue to host and operate the applications for up to a year until we could rewrite portions of it and absorb it in house.  This acquisition would buy us time and give us a jump start in developing our capacity trading tools but we also need to be aware that there will be additional costs going forward and potentially some issues with maintenance of the data feeds from the pipes if we don't finalize TPA's with all of the pipes.  -  Tommy

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Kitchen, Louise  
Sent:	Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:38 PM
To:	Yanowski, Tommy J.; Gomez, Julie A.
Cc:	Perlman, Beth; Stock, Stephen
Subject:	RE: Capacity Center Due Diligence

I have to say there are lots of issues with this.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Yanowski, Tommy J.  
Sent:	Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:15 AM
To:	Gomez, Julie A.
Cc:	Perlman, Beth; Stock, Stephen
Subject:	Capacity Center Due Diligence

Julie:  Attached is a document which attempts to summarize our due diligence of the Capacity Center software.  Please let me know if you'd like to get together to go through this information and discuss any next steps.  

Tommy Yanowski
x36858

 << File: Capacity Center Due Diligence Summary.doc >>