Hello --

The IBM meeting on Monday at 12:30pm in Houston (49C1) is an informal working 
session meeting for the EBS/IBM ASP team rather than a major checkpoint 
meeting.  Therefore, you definitely do not need to attend.  However, you are 
certainly welcome to drop by at any time.  A few morale words about the 
importance of the effort and the size of the joint opportunity with IBM in 
the ASP space are always welcome if you get a chance to come by.

Jeff:  I got a call from Perminder Bindra on Saturday.  He says that the IBM 
team assigned to EBS is extremely excited.  His concern is that there are 
other ASP efforts with other companies going on in IBM, and he fears that the 
"normal" IBM noise level around these efforts could slow us down (our goal is 
an agreement this quarter).  So if you can stress our need for speed in your 
call with Sam P. tomorrow, that would be helpful.  I am hoping that IBM will 
treat EBS as the top ASP-related partnership that they develop.  Thanks for 
your help.  

  Best regards.

-- Rex



Proposed Agenda for Meeting Monday, March 6th

I. Status of Each Bucket (call-in number needed for one hour commencing at 
12:30pm)
A. Market Selection/Strategy
1. Branding (deferred) (Steve Lonon, Mark Palmer)
2. Value Proposition (15 minutes to review current draft) (Ed Merenda, Mike 
Haney)
3. Announcement  (15 minutes to review current draft) (Steve Lonon, Rex 
Shelby)

B. Financial Structure (5 minutes to review notes from 2/28 meeting) (Susan 
Boucher, Larry Lawyer)

II. Commercial Agreement subgroup (1 hour, 30 minutes)
 Attendance, ie: Rex Shelby, Jim Crowder, Bob Lowrey, Mark Bartram

III. Team Wrap Up (30 minutes) (call in number needed for 30 minutes 
commencing at           3:00 pm), all attendees suggested

Dial in will be available for those who can't make it in person: 
1-888-311-9051; Access code: 71343

Purpose of meeting: to get status from each of the subgroups (Value 
Proposition, Commercial Agreement, Announcement, Marketing, etc.) and to sit 
with everyone face to face and review key issues.

Deliverables from meeting: (IBM-EBS key contacts are asked to put together 
2-3 powerpoint slides briefly highlighting the topics below)

Outlook of each subgroup and where it fits into the March 31st deadline
Status of each subgroup
Potential roadblocks to March 31st deadline
Go forward plan for April 1 and beyond