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From:speterson@seade.com
To:jeff_skilling@enron.com
Subject:Defying Convential Wisdom - Advisory Board Offer
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Date:Thu, 9 Nov 2000 05:36:00 -0800 (PST)

Jeff:

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I was intrigued by your interview in the 10/30/00 issue of InternetWeek=20
Onlineas we seem to share the desire to transform the system.? Despite Enro=
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s better business model, robust software infrastructure is as critical to=
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Enron=01,s success as for any other Fortune 1000 company.? Should you agree=
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our mission to deliver that infrastructure, we would be most honored to hav=
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you join our Advisory Board (includes stock option compensation).

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SEADE Software is developing a new category of software we call an=20
Application Deployment Engine (ADE).? I stress that this is a new category =
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software.? The ADE shares some of the features of several existing=20
categories), but no existing product, or combination of products, has=20
thepotential of having such a profound, disruptive affect on the process of=
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developing complex, enterprise-scale eBusiness software.? The ADE enables=
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rapid deployment of feature-rich, secure, scaleable, open-platform,=20
best-of-breed eBusiness software in =01&Internet Time=018.? In addition, it=
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provides for better and more cost effective life cycle management and=20
integration of that software.? Note that the SEADE team has previously buil=
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the ADE three times as the framework for specific vertical applications.?=
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While this is a new category of commercial software, it=01,s not a particul=
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new idea.? What we are doing has in fact always been the way the academic=
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world has said complex software systems should be written.? The evolution=
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from structured languages, to object orientation has been a continual effor=
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to find a means to leverage the effort and resources used to deploy past=20
applications for the deployment of the next application.? Most enterprise=
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software shares between 60-90% of its core foundation and features with all=
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other software.? We call these common horizontal components the =01&Common=
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Horizontal Framework=018,of a custom application.? The vertical components =
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the parts that make the software valuable enough to risk the resources to=
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develop and deploy mission critical applications.=20

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SEADE Software=01,s core competency is the delivery of the horizontal compo=
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that make up the majority of all business applications.? We deliver this in=
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highly customizable, component-based, platform-independent, fully=20
internationalized, pre-fabricated software application we call an ADE.? The=
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ADE enables fast-tracked development of new integrated eBusiness applicatio=
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and provides a common reference for legacy Enterprise application integrati=
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(many-to-many EAI).? We empower the Fortune 1000 to maximize their core=20
competency by leveraging ours.

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I=01,ve attached for your review our Executive Summary, Business Case Slide=
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pitch, and Advisory Board bios.? Please let me know if you find our offer o=
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interest.? Thank you for your consideration.

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Best regards,
Scott



Scott Peterson
SEADE Software, Inc.
512.266.3234
512.695.1246 cell
speterson@seade.com
- SEADE Pitch Rev 25.ppt
- SEADE Advisory Board Rev 2.pdf
- SEADE Executive Summary Rev 18.pdf