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Title:

Outsourcer Alliance Agreement

Entities:

Corio, Inc.; PeopleSoft, Inc.; Corio Inc

Date:

2000

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                          OUTSOURCER ALLIANCE AGREEMENT

WITH
CORIO, INC.

This Outsourcer Alliance Agreement ("Agreement") is made as of the Effective
Date by and between PeopleSoft USA, Inc., a California corporation having its
principal place of business at 4305 Hacienda Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588
("PeopleSoft") and Corio, Inc., a Delaware corporation with offices at 700 Bay
Road, Suite 210, Redwood City, CA 94063 ("Service Provider"). As used herein,
the term "Parties" shall refer to PeopleSoft and Service Provider collectively,
and the term "Party" shall refer to PeopleSoft or Service Provider.

Whereas, the Parties intend to develop a business relationship to provide
Service Provider with rights to leverage its expertise in the outsourcing
service business by remotely hosting the Software to provide a solution within
its outsourcing business to offer the Software under sublicense as provided in
this Agreement as part of an integrated solution (the "Solution Offering");

Whereas, in every situation with a Designated Customer, the Designated Customer
will procure, or will have procured, either a license to use the Software from
Service Provider pursuant to a Sublicense Agreement;

Whereas, the Parties intend that this Agreement be entirely independent of other
agreements between the Parties or that may be contemplated by the Parties, and
that any payments under this Agreement be non-refundable and non-cancelable; and

Whereas, the Parties intend that this Agreement shall replace and supersede in
its entirety that certain Outsourcer Alliance Agreement dated as of September
30, 1998 by and between the Parties (the "Prior Agreement").

Therefore, the Parties agree as follows:

1. DEFINITIONS

"ACTIVE USER" means a Designated User to whom a user identification number and
password has been assigned, which permits that user to access and use the
Software on a designated Service Provider server, and that is not a Casual User
(as defined below).

"APPLICATION MANAGEMENT" ("AM") means Service Provider's management of Software
for a Designated Customer on Service Provider's owned, leased, or subcontracted
for premises or premises otherwise under Service Provider's control, such that
Service Provider manages the Designated Customer's Software, applications
upgrades, performs routine maintenance, applies fixes, performance tuning, and
system enhancements, using PeopleTools, and other functions typically performed
by an in-house IT staff. These services may also include the performance of such
functions as DBA and OS administration, in connection with the Software and
business processes supported by the Software.

"CASUAL USER" means a Designated Customer who is authorized to use the Software
solely to complete a limited group of functional tasks, which will change from
time to time and initially includes the following tasks: report execution,
inquiry and remote order entry.

* Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed
separately with the Commission. Confidential treatment has
been requested with respect to the omitted portions.
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{PAGE} 2
"COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE" means only enterprises within the Market Segments with
annual revenues of not more than [*], as reported on a consolidated basis in (1)
such enterprise's most recent fiscal year end audited financials, or if not
available, (2) by the One Source database, or comparable database, with the
exception of enterprises in the higher education and government (public sector
and federal) segments where only a right of first refusal to a third party is in
effect.

"COMPETITIVE ASP" means any company that offers ERP Software on a hosted and
subscription basis delivered over the World Wide Web or a private network to
Commercial Enterprises.

"DESIGNATED CUSTOMER(S)" means only End Users which, at the date of execution of
an Outsourcing Agreement with Service Provider, is a Commercial Enterprise which
has corporate headquarters in North America.

"DEVELOPMENT CENTER" means the location(s) of facilities owned, leased,
subcontracted for, or otherwise under Service Provider's control, including a
Designated Customer's location where Service Provider uses or utilizes the
Software pursuant to the subsections entitled Internal Use License or
Development License.

"DOCUMENTATION" means the user guides and manuals for installation and use of
the Software in computer readable or bound hard copy form, if computer readable
form is unavailable.

"EFFECTIVE DATE" means January 1, 1999.

"END USER" means a third party sublicensee of the Software that acquires rights
from PeopleSoft through a sublicense from Service Provider pursuant to section
2(d) to use the Software solely for such party's own internal business purposes
and not for distribution, further sublicensing, or other commercial purposes.

"FEES" means the fees set forth on Exhibit A hereto.

"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS" means any patent, patent application, copyright,
moral right, trade name, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and any
applications or right to apply for registration therefor, know-how, mask work,
schematics, computer software programs or applications, tangible or intangible
proprietary information, or any other intellectual property right or proprietary
information or technology, whether registered or unregistered and whether first
made or created before or after the Effective Date.

"MARKET SEGMENTS" are limited under this agreement to all industries within the
Territory, with the exception of the higher education and government (public
sector and federal) segments where only a right of first refusal is in effect.

"OUTSOURCING AGREEMENT" means a separate agreement between Service Provider and
a Designated Customer for the provision by Service Provider to the Designated
Customer of Outsourcing Services, which includes a Sublicense Agreement.

"OUTSOURCING CENTER" means the location(s) under Service Provider's control,
owned, leased, subcontracted for or otherwise, including at which Service
Provider may perform Outsourcing Services.

"OUTSOURCING SERVICES" means the provision of Applications Management (AM)
services to a Designated Customer.


[*] Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed separately with
the Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to
the omitted portions.


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"PREFERRED ASP PARTNER" shall mean an applications service provider that has
been granted the following preferential rights by PeopleSoft: (i) the right to
be referenced as a "Preferred ASP Partner" and (ii) the right to freely and
independently market, sell and host the Software without PeopleSoft
participation.

"SOFTWARE" means the then current release or version of the products listed in
Exhibit A as "Software, and includes updated or enhanced versions of such
programs that PeopleSoft provides only as part of Support Services. Software
does not include any third party software or new software or technology for
which PeopleSoft generally charges a separate fee, but does include left of
decimal changes to the current Software products. Software shall include any
third party software components to which PeopleSoft has certain ongoing rights
pursuant to the terms of an existing specific written license agreement between
PeopleSoft and the third party developer of such components, and which third
party software components shall be provided to Service Provider only to the
extent provided by PeopleSoft pursuant to the terms of the standard PeopleSoft
License Agreement then in effect to any licensee licensing any commercially
available software programs and products from PeopleSoft. Software includes
Documentation.

"SUBLICENSE" means a non-exclusive, non-transferable, term (non-perpetual) right
granted by Service Provider under a Sublicense Agreement to a Designated
Customer or End User, as the case maybe, to use the Software solely for such
Designated Customer's or End User's internal business purposes, in accordance
with the Documentation, and pursuant to a Sublicense Agreement.

"SUBLICENSE ADDENDUM" shall mean an addendum to this Agreement specifying
additional Sublicense terms and which may be granted by Service Provider.

"SUBLICENSE AGREEMENT" means a written agreement between Service Provider and an
End User whereby a Sublicense is granted, and that complies with the provisions
of Section 2(d).

"SUPPORT SERVICES" means PeopleSoft's then current technical support services
for Service Provider. A statement of Support Services offered as of the
Effective Date is attached hereto as Exhibit B.

"TERRITORY" means [*]. The prior written consent of PeopleSoft shall be required
to provide Outsourcing Services to any Designated Customers headquartered
outside of the Territory.

"USER FEE(S)" means the aggregate Active User Fee and Casual User Fee.

2. LICENSE GRANTS

(A) OUTSOURCING SERVICES LICENSE.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including Service
Provider's obligation to pay PeopleSoft Fees), PeopleSoft hereby grants to
Service Provider a worldwide, non-exclusive (except in accordance with section
3(b)(1)), non-transferable, restricted license during the term of this Agreement
to use the Software solely to perform the Outsourcing Services at an Outsourcing
Center and to make a reasonable number of laptop (single user) and server
(multi-user) copies solely for demonstration purposes. Service Provider may
copy, distribute and/or electronically distribute the Software within Service
Provider for the purposes set forth in this subsection. For the fees set forth
in section 1 of Exhibit A, Service Provider shall have the right to make a
reasonable number of copies of the Software for such purposes. Service Provider
shall reproduce all titles, trademarks, and copyright and restricted rights
notices in the Software in all such copies. Except as set forth above, Service
Provider may not transfer or duplicate the Software except for (i) temporary
transfer in the event of a CPU malfunction and (ii) a single backup and archival
copy. Service Provider will not


[*] Certain information on this page has been omitted and filed separately with
the Commission. Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to
the omitted portions.


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allow any third party, including an employee or other representative of a
Designated Customer, to use the Software under this license grant. Service
Provider further agrees to use the Software only in accordance with the
Documentation, on a computer and operating system configuration specified in the
Documentation and in accordance with the obligations imposed by this Agreement.
Service Provider warrants to PeopleSoft that it will perform the Outsourcing
Services with due care and skill and in accordance with generally accepted
professional standards for providing similar services. Service Provider will not
disclose or publish to any third party any results of benchmark tests run on the
Software.

(B) RESTRICTIONS ON USE.

Service Provider agrees not to translate the Software into another computer
language, in whole or in part. Except as set forth above, Service Provider shall
not make copies or make media translations of the Software or the Documentation,
in whole or in part without PeopleSoft's prior written approval. Service
Provider agrees that if, for any reason, it comes into possession of any
Software source code, or portion thereof, for any PeopleSoft product, which it
knows or reasonably should know is source code not generally provided by
PeopleSoft as a part of the Software or provided under the terms of a license
grant in this Agreement, it will immediately deliver all copies of such source
code to PeopleSoft. Service Provider acknowledges PeopleSoft's representation
that the Software and its structure, organization and source code constitute
valuable trade secrets that belong to PeopleSoft. Service Provider agrees that
it shall not reverse compile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer the
Software and that it shall not use the Software or Documentation except as
expressly permitted by this Agreement.

(C) MARKETING AS PART OF OUTSOURCING SERVICES

PeopleSoft hereby grants to Service Provider the non-exclusive, nontransferable
right to market and distribute the Software to End Users solely as part of
Service Provider's provision of Outsourcing Services.

(D) SUBLICENSE TRANSACTIONS.

As further set forth in the applicable Sublicense Addendum and subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement (including Service Provider's obligation
to pay PeopleSoft the Fees), PeopleSoft hereby grants to Service Provider a
worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable license during the term of this
Agreement to market and grant Sublicenses to the Software to sublicensees (each
a "Sublicensee") as set forth in such Sublicense Addendum ("Sublicense
Transaction"). Service Provider shall only have the right to Sublicense the
Software pursuant to a written Sublicense Agreement, for such term as the
parties will mutually agree from time to time and, which is substantially in the
form of the Alliance Partner License Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit C.
Service Provider shall have to right to (i) notify any Designated Customer of a
migration option that would permit a Designated Customer who has been a Service

 

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