Is it appropriate for a conference sponsor to use our name like this???  They've twisted our attendence into something approaching an endorsement.  Should we send a nasty letter?  df




Lee Huber
04/04/2001 09:33 AM
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From:	Gina Taylor/ENRON@enronXgate on 04/04/2001 08:51 AM
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Gina






World's Largest Energy Companies Attend TIBCO Software's Energy Technology And Trading Conference

04/04/2001
PR Newswire
(Copyright (c) 2001, PR Newswire)

Enron, Dynegy, Texaco and Other TIBCO Customers That Depend on Real-Time 
Trading and Systems Integration Meet In Texas
HOUSTON, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) is hosting more than 200 customers, partners and prospects at its annual Energy Users Conference today through Thursday in Houston, Texas. Customer attendees include Enron, Dynegy, Reliant Energy, El Paso Corporation, Altra Energy Technologies, Coral Energy, Duke Energy, Mirant, Marathon, Texaco, TXU Energy, Equiva, Williams and more. Systems Integrator participates include Accenture, Luminant, Zetta Works, and Deloitte Consulting. 
During the conference, TIBCO, a leading provider of real-time e-business infrastructure software that powers real-time energy trading floors, will be announcing several new customers, and a number of existing customers will be demonstrating how they use TIBCO's energy business integration solution to grow within any economic condition. Additionally, several of TIBCO's systems integration partners will discuss how they depend upon TIBCO products to create technology solutions specific to the energy industry. 
"Companies that don't adopt technology solutions that enable real-time Internet trading and systems integration, will not survive in the deregulated energy market," said Vivek Ranadive, chairman and CEO, TIBCO Software. "Real-time trading and systems integration is exactly what TIBCO's software provides. That's why the world's leaders, and all of those looking to catch-up, are attending this conference" 
About TIBCO Software Inc. 
TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading provider of real-time e-business infrastructure software. TIBCO's four product lines -- TIBCO ActiveEnterprise(TM), TIBCO ActiveExchange(TM), TIBCO ActivePortal(TM) and TIBCO Extensibility(TM) -- enable businesses to integrate enterprise applications, interact with other businesses in B2B commerce, and efficiently deliver personalized information through enterprise portals. TIBCO's products enable the real-time distribution of information through patented technology called The Information Bus(TM), or TIB(R). TIB technology was first used to digitize Wall Street and has since been adopted in diverse industries including telecommunications, electronic commerce, manufacturing and energy. TIBCO's global direct customer base includes more than 800 customers from around the world such as Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Ariba, NEC, Enron, Sun Microsystems, GE Capital, Philips, AT&T, Pirelli and AOL/Netscape. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO can be reached at 650-846-1000 or on the web at www.tibco.com.
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