Re: New Computer for Handling Stock Awards

Do what you need to do; the system has to work. The only question I have is:
why doesn't IT just take care of this without a charge? This is not an
extraordinary item or special request. This ought to be something IT simply
takes care of without us having to get involved or pay extra. Am I missing
something?

From: Aaron Brown/ENRON@enronXgate on 04/16/2001 09:41 AM
To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Mary Joyce/ENRON@enronXgate
cc:

Subject: New Computer for Handling Stock Awards

Steve,

The IT group put it like this..."Justification: Current Server is PL1850,
and has reached it's capacity and is non-redundant."

That means that our current system:
(1) has a slow processor
(2) is nearly out of memory for stock award administration
(3) doesn't have a "real-time" back up in case the hard drives fails
(4) needs to be upgraded

The IT group has quoted about $19,000 for a new system that brings this
server up to Enron's current server standards and takes care of the above
issues.

Let me know if this expense is a problem and whether you need to be involved
with these types of decisions in the future.

Thanks,
Aaron