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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

BY AND AMONG

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.

STANFORD ACQUISITION CORPORATION

AND

STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Dated as of June 2, 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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ARTICLE I THE MERGER		1

1.1	The Merger	1
1.2	Effective Time; Closing	2
1.3	Effect of the Merger	2
1.4	Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws	2
1.5	Directors and Officers	2
1.6	Effect on Capital Stock	3
1.7	Dissenting Shares	5
1.8	Surrender of Certificates	5
1.9	No Further Ownership Rights in Company Common Stock	6
1.10	Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates	7
1.11	Further Action	7

ARTICLE II REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY		7

2.1	Organization; Standing and Power; Charter Documents; Subsidiaries	7
2.2	Capital Structure	8
2.3	Authority; No Conflict; Necessary Consents	10
2.4	SEC Filings; Financial Statements; Internal Controls	12
2.5	Absence of Certain Changes or Events	13
2.6	Taxes	15
2.7	Title to Properties	17
2.8	Intellectual Property	18
2.9	Restrictions on Business Activities	21
2.10	Governmental Authorizations	22
2.11	Litigation	22
2.12	Compliance with Laws	23
2.13	Environmental Matters	23
2.14	Brokers' and Finders' Fees	24
2.15	Transactions with Affiliates	24
2.16	Employee Benefit Plans and Compensation	24
2.17	Contracts	29
2.18	Insurance	31
2.19	Export Control Laws	31
2.20	Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	31
2.21	Government Contracts	32
2.22	Information Supplied	33
2.23	Fairness Opinion	33
2.24	Takeover Statutes and Rights Plans	33

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ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND MERGER SUB		34

3.1	Organization	34
3.2	Authority; No Conflict; Necessary Consents	34
3.3	Capital Resources	35
3.4	Information Supplied	35
3.5	Operations of Merger Sub	35

ARTICLE IV CONDUCT BY THE COMPANY PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE TIME		35

4.1	Conduct of Business by the Company	35
4.2	Procedures for Requesting Parent Consent	39

ARTICLE V ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS		39

5.1	Proxy Statement	39
5.2	Meeting of Company Stockholders; Board Recommendation	40
5.3	Acquisition Proposals	41
5.4	Confidentiality; Access to Information; No Modification of Representations, Warranties or Covenants	44
5.5	Public Disclosure	45
5.6	Regulatory Filings; Reasonable Efforts	45
5.7	Notification of Certain Matters	47
5.8	Third-Party Consents	47
5.9	Equity Awards and Employee Matters	48
5.10	Form S-8	49
5.11	Indemnification	49
5.12	Section 16 Matters	50
5.13	Insurance Approval	50
5.14	Immigration-Related Liabilities	51

ARTICLE VI CONDITIONS TO THE MERGER		51

6.1	Conditions to the Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Merger	51
6.2	Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Parent	51
6.3	Additional Conditions to the Obligations of the Company	52

ARTICLE VII TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER		53

7.1	Termination	53
7.2	Notice of Termination; Effect of Termination	55
7.3	Fees and Expenses	55
7.4	Amendment	56
7.5	Extension; Waiver	56

ARTICLE VIII GENERAL PROVISIONS		56

8.1	Non-Survival of Representations and Warranties	56
8.2	Notices	57

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8.3	Interpretation; Knowledge	58
8.4	Counterparts	59
8.5	Entire Agreement; Third-Party Beneficiaries	59
8.6	Severability	59
8.7	Other Remedies	59
8.8	Governing Law	60
8.9	Rules of Construction	60
8.10	Assignment	60
8.11	Waiver of Jury Trial	60

Exhibit A Voting Agreement

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INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS


Acquisition Proposal		5.3(f)(i)
Acquisition		7.3(b)(iii)
Action of Divestiture		5.6(e)
Agreement		Preamble
Alternative Transaction Announcement		7.1
Bid		2.21
the business of		8.3(a)
Business Day		1.2
Cancellation Payment		1.6(c)
Certificate of Merger		1.2
Certificates		1.8(c)
Change of Recommendation Notice		5.3(d)(iii)
Change of Recommendation		5.3(d)
Closing		1.2
Closing Date		1.2
COBRA		2.16(a)
Code		1.8(d)
Company Balance Sheet		2.4(b)
Company Charter Documents		2.1(b)
Company Common Stock		1.6(a)
Company Disclosure Letter		Article II Preamble
Company Employee Plan		2.16(a)
Company Environmental Permits		2.13(c)
Company Financials		2.4(b)
Company Government Contract		2.21
Company Government Subcontract		2.21
Company Intellectual Property		2.8(a)
Company Material Contract		2.17(a)
Company Options		2.2(c)
Company Preferred Stock		2.2(a)
Company Products		2.8(a)
Company Purchase Plans		1.6(f)
Company Registered Intellectual Property		2.8(a)
Company Rights Agreement		2.2(a)
Company Rights		2.2(a)

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Company SEC Reports		2.4(a)
Company Stock Option Plans		2.2(c)
Company Unvested Common Stock		1.6(b)
Company		Preamble
Confidentiality Agreement		5.4(a)
Contract		2.1(a)
Customer Information		2.8(l)
Delaware Law		Recitals
Dissenting Shares		1.7(a)
DOJ		2.3(c)
DOL		2.16(a)
Effect		8.3(c)
Effective Time		1.2
Employee Agreement		2.16(a)
Employee		2.16(a)
End Date		7.1(b)
ERISA Affiliate		2.16(a)
ERISA		2.16(a)
Exchange Act		2.3(c)
Exchange Agent		1.8(a)
Exchange Fund		1.8(b)
Export Approvals		2.19(a)
FCPA		2.20
FTC		2.3(c)
GAAP		2.4(b)
Governmental Authorizations		2.10
Governmental Entity		2.3(c)
Hazardous Material		2.13(a)
Hazardous Materials Activities		2.13(b)
HSR Act		2.3(c)
Include, Includes, Including		8.3(a)
Indemnified Parties		5.11(a)
Intellectual Property Rights		2.8(a)
Intellectual Property		2.8(a)
International Employee Plan		2.16(a)
IRS		2.16(a)
Knowledge		8.3(b)
Lease Documents		2.7(b)
Leased Real Property		2.7(a)
Legal Requirements		2.2(e)
Liens		2.1(c)
Material Adverse Effect		8.3(c)
Merger Consideration		1.6(a)
Merger Sub Common Stock		1.6(e)

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Merger Sub		Preamble
Merger		1.1
Necessary Consents		2.3(c)
Non-Employee Options		1.6(c)
Open Source		2.8(h)
Option Ratio		5.9(a)
Parent Common Stock		5.1
Parent		Preamble
Pension Plan		2.16(a)
Person		8.3(d)
Proxy Statement		2.22
Registered Intellectual Property		2.8(a)
Returns		2.6(b)(i)
SEC		2.3(c)
Second Request Responses		5.6(a)2.3(c)
Securities Acts		2.4(a)
Shrink-Wrapped Code		2.8(a)
Significant Subsidiary		2.1(b)
Source Code		2.8(a)
Stockholders' Meeting		5.2(a)
Subsidiary Charter Documents		2.1(b)
Subsidiary		2.1(a)
Superior Offer		5.3(f)(ii)
Surviving Corporation		1.1
Tax		2.6(a)
Taxes		2.6(a)
Termination Fee		7.3(b)(i)
Trade Secrets		2.8(a)
Triggering Event		7.1
Voting Agreements		Recitals
Voting Debt		2.2(d)
WARN		2.16(a)

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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this "Agreement") is made and entered into as of June 2, 2005, by and among Sun Microsystems, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Parent"), Stanford Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub"), and Storage Technology Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company").

RECITALS

A. The respective Boards of Directors of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company have deemed it advisable and in the best interests of their respective corporations and stockholders that Parent and the Company consummate the business combination and other transactions provided for herein.

B. The respective Boards of Directors of Merger Sub and the Company have approved, in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law ("Delaware Law"), this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger.

C. Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, and as a condition and inducement to Parent's willingness to enter into this Agreement, all members of the Board of Directors of the Company are entering into a Voting Agreement and irrevocable proxy in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the "Voting Agreements").

D. The Board of Directors of the Company has resolved to recommend to its stockholders approval and adoption of this Agreement and approval of the Merger.

E. Parent, as the sole stockholder of Merger Sub, has approved and adopted this Agreement and approved the Merger.

F. Parent, Merger Sub and the Company desire to make certain representations, warranties and agreements in connection with the Merger and also to prescribe certain conditions to the Merger.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants, promises and representations set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

THE MERGER

1.1 The Merger. At the Effective Time and subject to and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the applicable provisions of Delaware Law, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company (the "Merger"), the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease

and the Company shall continue as the surviving corporation and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. The surviving corporation after the Merger is hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Surviving Corporation."

1.2 Effective Time; Closing. Subject to the provisions of this Agreement, the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing a Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the relevant provisions of Delaware Law (the "Certificate of Merger") (the time of such filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (or such later time as may be agreed in writing by the Company and Parent and specified in the Certificate of Merger) being the "Effective Time") as soon as practicable on or after the Closing Date. The closing of the Merger (the "Closing") shall take place at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, located at 650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California, at a time and date to be specified by the parties, which shall be no later than the second Business Day after the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VI (other than those that by their terms are to be satisfied or waived at the Closing), or at such other time, date and location as the parties hereto agree in writing. The date on which the Closing occurs is referred to herein as the "Closing Date." "Business Day" shall mean each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which Parent is closed for business or banking institutions located in San Francisco, California or Denver, Colorado, are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

1.3 Effect of the Merger. At the Effective Time, the effect of the Merger shall be as provided in this Agreement and the applicable provisions of Delaware Law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Effective Time all the property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of Company and Merger Sub shall vest in the Surviving Corporation, and all debts, liabilities and duties of Company and Merger Sub shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of the Surviving Corporation.

1.4 Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, at the Effective Time, the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company shall be amended and restated in its entirety to be identical to the Certificate of Incorporation of Merger Sub, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, until thereafter amended in accordance with Delaware Law and as provided in such Certificate of Incorporation; provided, however, that at the Effective Time, Article I of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation shall be amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: "The name of the corporation is Storage Technology Corporation" and the Certificate of Incorporation shall be amended so as to comply with Section 5.11(a). Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, at the Effective Time, the Bylaws of the Company shall be amended and restated in their entirety to be identical to the Bylaws of Merger Sub, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, until thereafter amended in accordance with Delaware Law and as provided in such Bylaws; provided, however, that at the Effective Time, the Bylaws shall be amended so as to comply with Section 5.11(a).

1.5 Directors and Officers. Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, the initial directors of the Surviving Corporation shall be the directors of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time, until their respective successors are duly elected or

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appointed and qualified. Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, the initial officers of the Surviving Corporation shall be the officers of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time, until their respective successors are duly appointed. In addition, unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, Parent, the Company and the Surviving Corporation shall cause the directors and officers of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time to be the directors and officers, respectively of each of the Company's Subsidiaries immediately after the Effective Time, each to hold office as a director or officer of each such Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions of the laws of the respective jurisdiction of organization and the respective bylaws or equivalent organizational documents of each such Subsidiary.

1.6 Effect on Capital Stock. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, at the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Company or the holders of any shares of capital stock of the Company, the following shall occur:

(a) Company Common Stock. Each share of the Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share, of the Company ("Company Common Stock") issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, other than any shares of Company Common Stock to be canceled pursuant to Section 1.6(d), will be canceled and extinguished and automatically converted (subject to Section 1.7) into the right to receive an amount of cash equal to $37.00, without interest (such amount of cash hereinafter referred to as the "Merger Consideration") upon surrender of the certificate representing such share of Company Common Stock in the manner provided in Section 1.8 (or in the case of a lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, upon delivery of an affidavit (and bond, if required) in the manner provided in Section 1.10).

(b) Repurchase Rights. If any shares of Company Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time are unvested or are subject to a repurchase option, risk of forfeiture or other condition under any applicable restricted stock purchase agreement or other agreement with the Company ("Company Unvested Common Stock"), then, the amounts payable with respect to such shares of Company Unvested Common Stock pursuant to the provisions of Section 1.6(a) shall be withheld and retained by Parent and shall be subject to permanent retention by Parent (i.e., forfeiture by the former holder of such shares of Company Unvested Common Stock) on the same terms that governed such Company Unvested Common Stock prior to the Effective Time. Parent shall hold the cash so withheld until such cash is no longer subject to permanent retention by Parent, at which time such withheld cash will be paid to the former holders of the applicable Company Unvested Common Stock on a monthly basis as reasonably determined by Parent.

(c) Non-Employee Options. At the Effective Time, each Company Option held by any person other than an employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such Company Option, a "Non-Employee Option") that is unexpired, unsettled, unexercised and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, terminate in its entirety at the Effective Time. Non-Employee Options granted under the Company's Amended and Restated 1995 Equity Participation Plan shall terminate or be

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settled, as applicable, in accordance with their terms, after the notice period required under such plan, provided such notice period shall expire on the Effective Time, and shall so terminate regardless of whether such Non-Employee Options have been either exercised or unexercised during such notice period (giving effect to any acceleration of vesting resulting from the Merger or non-assumption by Parent). Non-Employee Options granted under the 2004 Long Term Incentive Plan shall terminate or be settled, as applicable, in accordance with their terms, and the holder of each such Non-Employee Option shall be entitled to receive therefor an amount of cash (rounded down to the nearest whole cent) equal to the product of (i) the number of shares of Company Common Stock as to which such Company Option was vested and exercisable immediately prior to the Effective Time (giving effect to any acceleration of vesting resulting from the Merger or non-assumption by Parent), and (ii) the excess, if any, of the per share Merger Consideration over the exercise price, if any, of such Company Option immediately prior to the Effective Time (each such payment, a "Cancellation Payment"). Non-Employee Options granted under the Amended and Restated Stock Option Plan for Nonemployee Directors, shall be terminated after such holder has been provided notice by the Company of such termination, and has agreed to such cancellation in exchange for a Cancellation Payment. Any materials, notifications or consents which are to be submitted to the holders of Non-Employee Options pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to review and approval by Parent.

(d) Cancellation of Treasury and Parent Owned Stock. Each share of Company Common Stock held by the Company or Parent or any direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company or of Parent immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be canceled and extinguished without any conversion thereof.

(e) Capital Stock of Merger Sub. Each share of common stock, no par value, of Merger Sub (the "Merger Sub Common Stock") issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into one validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock, no par value, of the Surviving Corporation. Each certificate evidencing ownership of shares of Merger Sub Common Stock shall evidence ownership of such shares of capital stock of the Surviving Corporation.

(f) Employee Stock Options; Employee Stock Purchase Plans. At the Effective Time, all Company Options, other than Non-Employee Options, outstanding under each Company Stock Option Plan shall be assumed by Parent in accordance with Section 5.9. Rights outstanding under the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and any other employee stock purchase plan of the Company (collectively, the "Company Purchase Plans") shall be treated as set forth in Section 5.9(c).

(g) Adjustments to Merger Consideration. The Merger Consideration shall be adjusted to reflect fully the appropriate effect of any stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend (including any dividend or distribution of securities convertible into Company Common Stock), reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification or other like change with respect to Company Common Stock having a record date on or after the date hereof and prior to the Effective Time.

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1.7 Dissenting Shares.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, any shares of Company Common Stock held by a holder who has not effectively withdrawn or lost such holder's appraisal rights under Section 262 of Delaware Law (collectively, the "Dissenting Shares"), shall not be converted into or represent a right to receive the applicable consideration for Company Common Stock set forth in Section 1.6, but the holder thereof shall only be entitled to such rights as are provided by Delaware Law.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1.7(a), if any holder of Dissenting Shares shall effectively withdraw or lose (through failure to perfect or otherwise) such holder's appraisal rights under Delaware Law, then, as of the later of the Effective Time and the occurrence of such event, such holder's shares shall automatically be converted into and represent only the right to receive the consideration for Company Common Stock, as applicable, set forth in Section 1.6, without interest thereon, upon surrender of the certificate representing such shares.

(c) The Company shall give Parent (i) prompt notice of any written demand for appraisal received by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of Delaware Law, and (ii) the opportunity to participate in any negotiations and proceedings with respect to such demands. The Company shall not, except with the prior written consent of Parent, make any payment with respect to any such demands or offer to settle or settle any such demands. Any communication to be made by the Company to any holder of Company Common Stock with respect to such demands shall be submitted to Parent in advance and shall not be presented to any holder of Company Common Stock prior to the Company receiving Parent's consent.

1.8 Surrender of Certificates.

(a) Exchange Agent. Parent shall select an institution reasonably satisfactory to the Company to act as the exchange agent (the "Exchange Agent") for the Merger.

(b) Parent to Provide Cash. Promptly following the Effective Time, Parent shall make available to the Exchange Agent for exchange in accordance with this Article I, the Merger Consideration payable pursuant to Section 1.6(a) in exchange for outstanding shares of Company Common Stock. Any cash deposited with the Exchange Agent shall hereinafter be referred to as the "Exchange Fund."

(c) Exchange Procedures. As soon as reasonably practicable following the Effective Time, Parent shall cause the Exchange Agent to mail to each holder of record (as of the Effective Time) of a certificate or certificates (the "Certificates") which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding shares of Company Common Stock whose shares were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 1.6(a): (i) a letter of transmittal (which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to the Certificates shall pass, only upon delivery of the Certificates to the Exchange Agent and shall be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify) and (ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates in exchange for cash constituting the Merger

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Consideration. Upon surrender of Certificates for cancellation to the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may be appointed by Parent, together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto and such other documents as may reasonably be required by the Exchange Agent, the holder of record of such Certificates shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the cash constituting the Merger Consideration, and the Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Until so surrendered, outstanding Certificates will be deemed from and after the Effective Time, for all corporate purposes, to evidence the ownership of the Merger Consideration into which such shares of Company Common Stock shall have been so converted.

(d) Required Withholding. Each of the Exchange Agent and the Surviving Corporation shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any consideration payable or otherwise deliverable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder or former holder of Company Common Stock or Company Options such amounts as may be required to be deducted or withheld therefrom under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") or under any provision of state, local or foreign Tax law or under any other applicable Legal Requirement. To the extent such amounts are so deducted or withheld, the amount of such consideration shall be treated for all purposes under this Agreement as having been paid to the Person to whom such consideration would otherwise have been paid.

(e) No Liability. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 1.8, neither the Exchange Agent, the Surviving Corporation nor any party hereto shall be liable to a holder of shares of Company Common Stock for any amount paid to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar law.

(f) Investment of Exchange Fund. The Exchange Agent shall invest the cash included in the Exchange Fund as directed by Parent on a daily basis; provided that no such investment or loss thereon shall affect the amounts payable to Company stockholders pursuant to this Article I. Any interest and other income resulting from such investment shall become a part of the Exchange Fund, and any amounts in excess of the amounts payable to Company stockholders pursuant to this Article I shall promptly be paid to Parent.

(g) Termination of Exchange Fund. Any portion of the Exchange Fund which remains undistributed to the holders of Certificates nine months after the Effective Time shall, at the request of the Surviving Corporation, be delivered to the Surviving Corporation or otherwise according to the instruction of the Surviving Corporation, and any holders of the Certificates who have not surrendered such Certificates in compliance with this Section 1.8 shall after such delivery to the Surviving Corporation, subject to Section 1.8(e), look only to the Surviving Corporation solely as general creditors for the cash constituting the Merger Consideration (which shall not accrue interest) pursuant to Section 1.6(a) with respect to the shares of Company Common Stock formerly represented thereby.

1.9 No Further Ownership Rights in Company Common Stock. All Merger Consideration paid upon the surrender for exchange of shares of Company Common Stock in accordance with the terms hereof shall be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights

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pertaining to such shares of Company Common Stock, and there shall be no further registration of transfers on the records of the Surviving Corporation of shares of Company Common Stock which were outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates are presented to the Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall be canceled and exchanged as provided in this Article I.

1.10 Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. In the event any Certificates shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Exchange Agent shall issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificates, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the holder thereof, such cash constituting the Merger Consideration; provided, however, that Parent may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificates to deliver a bond in such sum as it may reasonably direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against Parent, the Company or the Exchange Agent with respect to the Certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.

1.11 Further Action. At and after the Effective Time, the officers and directors of Parent and the Surviving Corporation will be authorized to execute and deliver, in the name and on behalf of the Company and Merger Sub, any deeds, bills of sale, assignments or assurances and to take and do, in the name and on behalf of Company and Merger Sub, any other actions and things to vest, perfect or confirm of record or otherwise in the Surviving Corporation any and all right, title and interest in, to and under any of the rights, properties or assets acquired or to be acquired by the Surviving Corporation as a result of, or in connection with, the Merger.

ARTICLE II

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

The Company represents and warrants to Parent and Merger Sub, subject to the exceptions specifically disclosed in writing in the disclosure letter (referencing the appropriate section or subsection; provided, that any information set forth in one section of the disclosure letter shall be deemed to apply to each other section or subsection thereof to which its relevance is readily apparent on its face) supplied by the Company to Parent dated as of the date hereof (the "Company Disclosure Letter"), as follows:

2.1 Organization; Standing and Power; Charter Documents; Subsidiaries.

(a) Organization; Standing and Power. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is a corporation or other organization duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization (except, in the case of good standing, for entities organized under the laws of any jurisdiction that does not recognize such concept) and has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as currently conducted, except where the failure to be so organized, validly existing and in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, "Subsidiary," when used with respect to any party, shall mean any corporation, association, business entity, partnership, limited liability company or other Person of which such party, either alone or together with one or more Subsidiaries or by one or more

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Subsidiaries (i) directly or indirectly owns or controls securities or other interests representing more than 50% of the voting power of such Person, or (ii) is entitled, by Contract or otherwise, to elect, appoint or designate directors constituting a majority of the members of such Person's board of directors or other governing body. For purposes of this Agreement, "Contract" shall mean any written, oral or other agreement, contract, subcontract, settlement agreement, lease, binding understanding, instrument, note, option, warranty, purchase order, license, sublicense, insurance policy, benefit plan or legally binding commitment or undertaking of any nature, as in effect as of the date hereof or as may hereinafter be in effect.

(b) Charter Documents. The Company has delivered to Parent (i) a true and correct copy of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Company, each as amended to date (collectively, the "Company Charter Documents") and (ii) the certificate of incorporation and bylaws, or like organizational documents (collectively, "Subsidiary Charter Documents"), of each of its Significant Subsidiaries, and each such instrument is in full force and effect. The Company is not in violation of any of the provisions of the Company Charter Documents and each Significant Subsidiary is not in violation of its respective Subsidiary Charter Documents. As used herein, "Significant Subsidiary" shall mean a significant Subsidiary of the Company as determined under Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X of the SEC.

(c) Subsidiaries. Section 2.1(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth each Subsidiary of the Company. The Company is the owner of all of the outstanding shares of capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, each such Subsidiary and all such shares have been duly authorized, validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all pledges, claims, liens, charges, encumbrances, options and security interests of any kind or nature whatsoever (collectively, "Liens"), including any restriction on the right to vote, sell or otherwise dispose of such capital stock or other ownership interests, except for restrictions imposed by applicable securities laws. Except as set forth in Section 2.1(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, other than the Subsidiaries of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries owns any capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests of any nature in, or any interest convertible, exchangeable or exercisable for, capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests of any nature in, any other Person, except for passive investments of less than 1% in the equity interests of public companies as part of the Company's cash management program.

2.2 Capital Structure.

(a) Capital Stock. The authorized capital stock of Company consists of: (i) 300,000,000 shares of Company Common Stock and (ii) 40,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Company Preferred Stock"). As of May 31, 2005: (i) 107,568,648 shares of Company Common Stock were issued and outstanding (excluding shares of Company Common Stock held by the Company in its treasury) of which 1,436,642 shares were Company Unvested Common Stock, (ii) 8,316,216 shares of Company Common Stock were issued and held by the Company in its treasury and (iii) no shares of Company Preferred Stock were issued or outstanding. No shares of Company Common Stock are owned or held by any Subsidiary of the Company. All outstanding shares of Company Common Stock are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to preemptive rights created by statute, the Company Charter Documents, or any agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.

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(b) Company Unvested Common Stock. There are no commitments or agreements of any character to which the Company is bound obligating the Company to waive its right of repurchase or forfeiture with respect to any Company Unvested Common Stock as a result of the Merger (whether alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events).

(c) Company Options. As of the close of business on May 31, 2005: (i) 9,947,621 shares of Company Common Stock are issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options to purchase Company Common Stock or upon settlement of restricted stock units or common stock equivalents in the form of Company Common Stock under the Company's 1987 Equity Participation Plan, Amended and Restated 1995 Equity Participation Plan, 2004 Long Term Incentive Plan and Amended and Restated Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors (collectively, the "Company Stock Option Plans") (equity or other equity-based awards, whether payable in cash, shares or otherwise granted under or pursuant to the Company Stock Option Plans are referred to in this Agreement as "Company Options"), the weighted average exercise price of such Company Options is $24.62 and 4,219,928 such Company Options are vested and exercisable; (ii) 6,528,501 shares of Company Common Stock are available for future grant under the Company Stock Option Plans and (iii) 3,173,195 shares of Company Common Stock are issuable under the Company Purchase Plans. Section 2.2(c)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of each outstanding Non-Employee Option: (a) the particular Company Stock Option Plan (if any) pursuant to which any such Non-Employee Option was granted (b) the name of the holder of such Non-Employee Option, (c) the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Non-Employee Option, (d) the exercise price of such Non-Employee Option, (e) the date on which such Non-Employee Option was granted or issued, (f) the applicable vesting schedule, if any, and the extent to which such Non-Employee Option is vested and exercisable as of the date hereof, and (g) the date on which such Non-Employee Option expires. All shares of Company Common Stock subject to issuance under the Company Stock Option Plans and the Company Purchase Plans, upon issuance on the terms and conditions specified in the instruments pursuant to which they are issuable, would be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. Except as set forth in Section 2.2(c)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no commitments or agreements of any character to which the Company is bound obligating the Company to accelerate the vesting of any Company Option as a result of the Merger (whether alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events). There are no outstanding or authorized stock appreciation, profit participation or other similar rights with respect to the Company.

(d) Voting Debt. No bonds, debentures, notes or other indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) having the right to vote on any matters on which stockholders may vote (or which is convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having such right) or (ii) the value of which is any way based upon or derived from capital or voting stock of the Company, are issued or outstanding as of the date hereof (collectively, "Voting Debt").

(e) Other Securities. Except as otherwise set forth in Section 2.2(c) or Section 2.2(e) of the Company Disclosure Letter, as of the date hereof, there are no securities,

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options, warrants, calls, rights, contracts, commitments, agreements, instruments, arrangements, understandings, obligations or undertakings of any kind to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them is bound obligating the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to (including on a deferred basis) issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares of capital stock, Voting Debt or other voting securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or obligating the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to issue, grant, extend or enter into any such security, option, warrant, call, right, commitment, agreement, instrument, arrangement, understanding, obligation or undertaking. Except for shares of Company Unvested Common Stock, there are no outstanding Contracts of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to (i) repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) dispose of any shares of the capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, any of its Subsidiaries. The Company is not a party to any voting agreement with respect to shares of the capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the Knowledge of the Company, other than the Voting Agreements and the irrevocable proxies granted pursuant to the Voting Agreements, there are no irrevocable proxies and no voting agreements, voting trusts, rights plans, anti-takeover plans or registration rights agreements with respect to any shares of the capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests in, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. For purposes of this Agreement, "Legal Requirements" shall mean any federal, state, local, municipal, foreign or other law, statute, constitution, principle of common law, resolution, ordinance, code, order, edict, decree, directive, rule, regulation, ruling or requirement issued, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority of any Governmental Entity.

2.3 Authority; No Conflict; Necessary Consents.

(a) Authority. The Company has all requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, subject, in the case of consummation of the Merger, to obtaining the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the Merger by the Company's stockholders as contemplated in Section 5.2. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and no further action is required on the part of the Company to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement or to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, subject only to the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the Merger by the Company's stockholders and the filing of the Certificate of Merger pursuant to Delaware Law. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock is the only vote of the holders of any class or series of Company capital stock necessary to approve or adopt this Agreement, approve the Merger and consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby. The Board of Directors of the Company has, by resolution adopted by unanimous vote at a meeting of all Directors duly called and held and not subsequently rescinded or modified in any way (except as is permitted pursuant to Section 5.3(d) hereof) duly (i) determined that the Merger is fair to, and in the best interest of, the Company and its stockholders and declared the Merger to be advisable, (ii) approved this Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Merger, and (iii) recommended that the stockholders of the Company approve and adopt this Agreement and approve the Merger and directed that such matter be submitted to the

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Company's stockholders at the Company Stockholders' Meeting. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by Parent and Merger Sub, constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally and to general principles of equity.

(b) No Conflict. The execution and delivery by the Company of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company Charter Documents or any Subsidiary Charter Documents of any Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) subject to obtaining the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the Merger by the Company's stockholders as contemplated in Section 5.2 and compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 2.3(c), conflict with or violate in any material respect any material Legal Requirement applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets (whether tangible or intangible) is bound or affected, or (iii) result in any material breach of or constitute a material default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a material default) under, or materially impair the Company's rights or alter the rights or obligations of any third party under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of a Lien on any of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to, any Company Material Contract. Section 2.3(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter also lists any additional consents, waivers and approvals under any of the Company's or any of its Subsidiary's Contracts required to be obtained in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, which, if individually or in the aggregate not obtained, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.

(c) Necessary Consents. No consent, waiver, approval, order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with any supranational, national, state, municipal, local or foreign government, any instrumentality, subdivision, court, administrative agency or commission or other governmental authority or instrumentality, or any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, taxing, importing or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority (a "Governmental Entity") or any other Person is required to be obtained or made by the Company in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the Merger and other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, except for (i) the filing of the Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and appropriate documents with the relevant authorities of other states in which the Company and/or Parent are qualified to do business, (ii) the filing of the Proxy Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), (iii) the filing of the Notification and Report Forms with the United States Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") required by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended ("HSR Act") and the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the HSR Act and such consents, waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings as may be required under the foreign merger control regulations identified in Section 2.3(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, and (iv) such other consents, waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations,

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declarations and filings which if not obtained or made would not be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or Parent and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or materially adversely affect the ability of the parties hereto to consummate the Merger within the time frame in which the Merger would otherwise be consummated in the absence of the need for such consent, waiver, approval, order, authorization, registration, declaration or filing. The consents, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings set forth in (i) through (iv) are referred to herein as the "Necessary Consents."

2.4 SEC Filings; Financial Statements; Internal Controls.

(a) SEC Filings. The Company has filed all required registration statements, prospectuses, reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents (including exhibits and all other information incorporated by reference) required to be filed by it with the SEC since January 1, 2002. All such required registration statements, prospectuses, reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents (including those that the Company may file subsequent to the date hereof) are referred to herein as the "Company SEC Reports." As of their respective dates, the Company SEC Reports (i) were prepared (other than preliminary proxy materials) in accordance and complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder applicable to such Company SEC Reports and (ii) did not at the time they were filed (or if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement then on the date of such filing) contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. None of the Company's Subsidiaries is required to file any forms, reports or other documents with the SEC. The Company has made available to Parent true, correct and complete copies of all correspondence between the SEC, on the one hand, and the Company and any of its Subsidiaries, on the other, since January 1, 2002, including all SEC comment letters and responses to such comment letters by or on behalf of the Company. To the Company's Knowledge, as of the date hereof, none of the Company SEC Documents is the subject of ongoing SEC review or outstanding SEC comment. The Company and, to the Knowledge of the Company, each of its officers and directors are in compliance with, and have complied, in each case in all material respects with (i) the applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the related rules and regulations promulgated under or pursuant to such act and (ii) the applicable listing and corporate governance rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange.

(b) Financial Statements. Each of the consolidated financial statements (including, in each case, any related notes thereto) contained in the Company SEC Reports (the "Company Financials"), including each Company SEC Report filed after the date hereof until the Closing: (i) complied as to form in all material respects with the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, (ii) was prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto or, in the case of unaudited interim financial statements, as may be permitted by the SEC on Form 10-Q, 8-K or any successor form under the Exchange Act), and (iii) fairly and accurately presented in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the respective dates thereof

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and the consolidated results of the Company's operations and cash flows for the periods indicated. As of the date hereof, the Company does not intend to restate any of the Company Financials. The balance sheet of the Company contained in the Company SEC Reports as of April 1, 2005 is hereinafter referred to as the "Company Balance Sheet." Except as disclosed in the Company Financials, since the date of the Company Balance Sheet, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any liabilities (absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise) of a nature required to be disclosed on a consolidated balance sheet or in the related notes to the consolidated financial statement prepared in accordance with GAAP, except for (i) liabilities incurred since the date of the Company Balance Sheet in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (ii) liabilities that are not reasonably expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. The Company has not had any dispute with any of its auditors regarding accounting matters or policies during any of its past three full years or during the current fiscal year-to-date which was required to be reported to the Company's Board of Directors. The books and records of the Company and each Subsidiary have been, and are being maintained in all material respects in accordance with applicable legal and accounting requirements and the Financial Statements are consistent with such books and records. Except as set forth in Section 2.4(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to, or has any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or any similar Contract relating to any transaction or relationship between or among the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose Person, on the other hand, or any "off-balance sheet arrangements" (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K of the SEC).

(c) Internal Controls. The Company and each of its Significant Subsidiaries has established and maintains, adheres to and enforces a system of internal controls which are effective in providing assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP (including the Company Financials). Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (including any Employee thereof) nor, to the Company's Knowledge, the Company's independent auditors has identified or been made aware of (i) any material weakness in the system of internal controls utilized by the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves the Company's management or other Employees who have a role in the preparation of financial statements or the internal controls utilized by the Company and its Subsidiaries or (iii) any claim or allegation regarding any of the foregoing.

2.5 Absence of Certain Changes or Events. Except as set forth in Section 2.5 of the Company Disclosure Letter, since the date of the Company Balance Sheet through the date hereof, there has not been, accrued or arisen:

(a) any Material Adverse Effect on the Company;

(b) any acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of, or agreement by the Company or any Subsidiary to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any assets or equity securities of, or by any other manner, any business or corporation, partnership, association or other business organization or division thereof, or other acquisition or agreement to acquire any

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assets or any equity securities that are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of the Company;

(c) any Contract, agreement in principle, letter of intent, memorandum of understanding or similar agreement with respect to any material joint venture, strategic partnership or alliance;

(d) any declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend on, or other distribution (whether in cash, stock or property) in respect of, any of the Company's or any of its Subsidiaries' capital stock, or any purchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any of the Company's capital stock or any other securities of the Company or its Subsidiaries or any options, warrants, calls or rights to acquire any such shares or other securities except for repurchases from Employees following their termination pursuant to the terms of their pre-existing stock option or purchase agreements;

(e) any split, combination or reclassification of any of the Company's or any of its Subsidiaries' capital stock;

(f) any granting by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether orally or in writing, of any increase in compensation or fringe benefits (except for normal increases of cash compensation to current non-officer employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice) or any payment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any bonus (except for bonuses made to current non-officer employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice) or any change by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of severance, termination or bonus policies and practices or any entry by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries into any currently effective employment, severance, termination or indemnification agreement or any agreement the benefits of which are contingent or the terms of which are materially altered upon the occurrence of a transaction involving the Company of the nature contemplated hereby (either alone or upon the occurrence of additional or subsequent events;

(g) any amendment, termination or consent with respect to any Company Material Contract, other than in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice;

(h) entry into any material customer Contract that contains any material non-standard terms, including but not limited to, non-standard discounts, provisions for unpaid future deliverables, non-standard service requirements or future royalty payments other than as is consistent with past practice;

(i) any material change by the Company in its accounting methods, principles or practices, except as required by concurrent changes in GAAP;

(j) any debt, capital lease or other debt or equity financing transaction by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or entry into any agreement by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any such transaction, except for capital lease and receivables financings entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice which are not individually or in the aggregate material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;

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(k) any grants of any material refunds, credits, rebates or other allowances by the Company to any end user, customer, reseller or distributor, in each case, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(l) any material change in the level of product returns or factors influencing accounts receivable or warranty reserves experienced by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(m) any material restructuring activities by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including any material reductions in force, lease terminations, restructuring of contracts or similar actions;

(n) any sale, lease, license, encumbrance or other disposition of any properties or assets except the sale, lease, license or disposition of property or assets which are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of the Company or the licenses of current Company Products, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with past practice;

(o) any loan or extension of credit by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person other than in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with past practice;

(p) any material purchases of fixed assets, spares or other long-term assets other than in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with past practice;

(q) adoption of or change in any material election in respect of Taxes, adoption or change in any material accounting method in respect of Taxes, agreement or settlement of any material claim or assessment in respect of Taxes, or extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any claim or assessment in respect of material Taxes;

(r) any material revaluation, or any indication that such a revaluation was merited under GAAP, by the Company of any of its assets, including, without limitation, writing down the value of capitalized inventory, spares, long term or short-term investments, fixed assets, goodwill, intangible assets, deferred tax assets, or writing off notes or accounts receivable other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; or

(s) any significant deficiency or material weakness identified in the system of internal controls utilized by the Company and its Subsidiaries.

2.6 Taxes.

(a) Definition of Taxes. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term "Tax" or, collectively, "Taxes" shall mean any and all federal, state, local and foreign taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, duties, impositions and liabilities relating to taxes, including taxes based upon or measured by gross receipts, income, profits, sales, use and occupation, and value added, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, withholding, payroll, recapture, employment, excise and property taxes as well as public imposts, fees and social security charges (including health, unemployment, workers' compensation and pension insurance), together with all interest, penalties

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and additions imposed with respect to such amounts and any obligations under any agreements or arrangements with any other person with respect to such amounts and including any liability for taxes of a predecessor entity.

(b) Tax Returns and Audits.

(i) The Company and each of its Significant Subsidiaries have (a) timely filed or caused to be filed all federal, state, local and foreign returns, estimates, information statements and reports ("Returns") relating to material Taxes required to be filed by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, and such Returns are true and correct and have been completed in accordance with applicable Legal Requirements in all material respects and (b) timely paid or withheld (and timely paid over any withheld amounts to the appropriate Governmental Entity) all material Taxes required to be paid or withheld whether or not shown as due on any Return, other than material Taxes for which an adequate reserve has been accrued or established on the Company Financials.

(ii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any material Tax deficiency outstanding, assessed or proposed in writing against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, nor has the Company or any of its Subsidiaries executed any waiver of any statute of limitations on or extending the period for the assessment or collection of any Tax.

(iii) No audit or other examination of any Return of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating to any material Tax is presently in progress, nor has the Company or any of its Subsidiaries been notified in writing of any request for such an audit or other examination.

(iv) No material adjustment relating to any Return filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been proposed by any Tax authority to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any representative thereof that remains unpaid.

(v) Neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has constituted either a "distributing corporation" or a "controlled corporation" in a distribution of stock occurring during the last three (3) years intended to qualify for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of the Code.

(vi) None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has engaged in a transaction that the Internal Revenue Service has identified by notice, regulation, or other form of published guidance as a listed transaction, as set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b)(2).

(vii) The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions of any material Tax exemption, Tax holiday or other Tax reduction agreement or order of a territorial or non-U.S. government and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not have any adverse effect on the continued validity and effectiveness of any such Tax exemption, Tax holiday or other Tax reduction agreement or order.

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(c) Executive Compensation Tax. Except as set forth in Section 2.6(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, including the provisions of this Agreement, covering any Employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, which, individually or collectively, could give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible pursuant to Sections 280G, 404 or 162(m) of the Code.

2.7 Title to Properties.

(a) Properties. Section 2.7(a)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of all real property currently owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the "Owned Real Property"). Except for the Owned Real Property currently owned by the Company or its Subsidiaries, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has owned any real property during the last five years. Section 2.7(a)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of all real property currently leased, licensed or subleased by the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries and any other material real property currently leased, licensed or subleased by any of the Company's Subsidiaries or otherwise used or occupied by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the "Leased Real Property"). The Owned Real Property and the Leased Real Property shall be collectively referred to herein as the "Real Property". All such current leases which are material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole are in full force and effect, are valid and effective in accordance with their respective terms, and there is not, under any of such leases, any existing default or event of default (or event which with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute a default). Except as set forth in Section 2.7(a)(iii) of the Company Disclosure Letter, no parties other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have a right to occupy any material Real Property. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will be required to incur any material cost or expense for any restoration or surrender obligations, or any other costs otherwise qualifying as asset retirement obligations under Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 143 "Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations," upon the expiration or earlier termination of any leases or other occupancy agreements for the Real Property.

(b) Documents. The Company has made available to Parent true, correct and complete copies of all material leases, lease guaranties, agreements for the leasing, use or occupancy of, or otherwise granting a right in or relating to the Real Property, including all amendments, terminations and modifications thereof ("Lease Documents"); and there are no other Lease Documents affecting the Real Property or to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound, other than those identified in Section 2.7(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter.

(c) Owned Real Property. The Company or its Subsidiaries owns the Owned Real Property free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens for taxes not yet due or delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP or for Liens which do not in any material respect detract from the value or interfere with the present use of the property subject thereto or affected thereby.

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(d) Valid Title. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good and valid title to, or, in the case of leased properties and assets, valid leasehold interests in, all of its material tangible properties and assets, real, personal and mixed, used or held for use in its business, free and clear of any Liens except (i) as reflected in the Company Balance Sheet, (ii) Liens for Taxes not yet due and payable, and (iii) such imperfections of title and encumbrances, if any, which do not in any material respect detract from the value or interfere with the present use of the property subject thereto or affected thereby. The rights, properties and assets presently owned, leased or licensed by the Company and its Subsidiaries include all rights, properties and assets necessary to permit the Company and its Subsidiaries to conduct their business in all material respects in the same manner as their businesses have been conducted prior to the date hereof.

2.8 Intellectual Property.

(a) Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:

"Company Intellectual Property" shall mean any and all Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Rights that are owned by or exclusively licensed to, the Company or its Subsidiaries.

"Company Products" shall mean all products, technologies and services developed (including products, technologies and services under development), owned, made, provided, distributed, imported, sold or licensed by or on behalf of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries.

"Company Registered Intellectual Property" shall mean the applications, registrations and filings for material Intellectual Property Rights that have been registered, filed, certified or otherwise perfected or recorded, and that have not been abandoned, with or by any Governmental Entity by or in the name of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

"Intellectual Property" shall mean any or all of the following (i) works of authorship including computer programs, source code, and executable code, whether embodied in software, firmware or otherwise, architecture, documentation, designs, files, records, and data, (ii) inventions (whether or not patentable), discoveries, improvements, and technology, (iii) proprietary and confidential information, trade secrets and know how, (iv) databases, data compilations and collections and technical data, (v) logos, trade names, trade dress, trademarks and service marks, (vi) domain names, web addresses and sites, (vii) tools, methods and processes, (viii) devices, prototypes, schematics, breadboards, netlists, maskworks, test methodologies, verilog files, emulation and simulation reports, test vectors and hardware development tools, and (ix) any and all instantiations of the foregoing in any form and embodied in any media.

"Intellectual Property Rights" shall mean worldwide common law and statutory rights associated with (i) patents, patent applications and inventors' certificates, (ii) copyrights, copyright registrations and copyright applications, "moral" rights and mask work rights, (iii) the protection of trade and industrial secrets and confidential information (�Trade

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Secrets�), (iv) other proprietary rights relating to intangible intellectual property, (v) trademarks, trade names and service marks, (vi) divisions, continuations, renewals, reissuances and extensions of the foregoing (as applicable) and (vii) analogous rights to those set forth above, including the right to enforce and recover remedies for any of the foregoing.

"Shrink-Wrapped Code" means generally commercially available software code (other than development tools and development environments) where available for a cost of not more than U.S. $10,000 for a perpetual license for a single user or work station (or $75,000 in the aggregate for all users and work stations).

"Source Code" shall mean computer software and code, in form other than object code form, including related programmer comments and annotations, help text, data and data structures, instructions and procedural, object-oriented and other code, which may be printed out or displayed in human readable form.

(b) No Default/No Conflict. All Contracts relating to either (i) Company Intellectual Property that is material to the business of the Company as conducted as of or prior to the Closing Date, or (ii) Intellectual Property or Intellectual Property Rights of a third Person licensed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is material to the business of the Company as conducted as of or prior to the Closing Date, are in full force and effect, and enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally and to general principles of equity. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will neither materially violate nor by their terms result in the material breach, modification, cancellation, termination, suspension of, or acceleration of any payments with respect to, such Contracts. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in material compliance with, and has not materially breached any term of any such Contracts and, to the Knowledge of the Company, all other parties to such Contracts are in compliance with, and have not materially breached any term of, such Contracts. Following the Closing Date, the Surviving Corporation will be permitted to exercise all of the Company's and its Subsidiaries' material rights under such Contracts to the same extent the Company and its Subsidiaries would have been able to had the transactions contemplated by this Agreement not occurred and without the payment of any additional amounts or consideration other than ongoing fees, royalties or payments which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries would otherwise be required to pay.

(c) No Infringement. The operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as conducted as of or prior to the Closing Date, including the design, development, use, import, branding, advertising, promotion, marketing, manufacture and sale of any Company Product does not materially infringe or misappropriate any Intellectual Property Rights of any Person, violate any right to privacy or publicity, or constitute unfair competition or trade practices under the laws of any jurisdiction.

(d) Notice. Except as set forth in Section 2.8(d) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received in the last three years written notice (which notice has not been rescinded) from any Person claiming that any Company Product or

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Company Intellectual Property materially infringes or misappropriates any Intellectual Property Rights of any Person or constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the laws of any jurisdiction (nor does the Company have Knowledge of any basis therefor).

(e) Transaction. Neither this Agreement nor the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including any assignment to Parent by operation of law as a result of the Merger of any contracts or agreements to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, will result in: (i) Parent, any of its subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation granting to any third party any incremental right to or with respect to any Intellectual Property Rights owned by, or licensed to, any of them, (ii) Parent, any of its subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation, being bound by, or subject to, any incremental non-compete or other incremental material restriction on the operation or scope of their respective businesses, or (iii) Parent, any of its subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation being obligated to pay any incremental royalties or other material amounts, or offer any incremental discounts, to any third party. As used in this Section 2.8(e), an "incremental" right, non-compete, restriction, royalty or discount refers to a right, non-compete, restriction, royalty or discount, as applicable, in excess of the rights, non-competes, restrictions, royalties or discounts payable that would have been required to be offered or granted, as applicable, had the parties not entered into this agreement or consummated the transactions contemplated hereby.

(f) Intellectual Property. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has taken commercially reasonable steps to obtain, maintain and protect the Company Intellectual Property. Without limiting the foregoing, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has, and enforces, a policy requiring each current and former employee, consultant and contractor to execute sufficient proprietary information and confidentiality agreements and there has been no material deviation from the policy described in the previous sentence in the past five years with respect to any current or former employees, consultants and contractors of the Company or any Subsidiary that have created any material Company Intellectual Property. Section 2.8(f) of the Company Disclosure Letter lists all Company Registered Intellectual Property.

(g) No Order. No Company Intellectual Property or Company Product is subject to any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment, settlement agreement, forbearance to sue, consent, stipulation or similar obligation that restricts in any manner the use, transfer or licensing thereof by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or may affect the validity, use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property or Company Product.

(h) Open Source. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has established a commercially reasonable policy that is designed: (i) to identify software obtained by Company under open source, public source, or freeware software licenses, including any version of any software licensed pursuant to any GNU general public license or limited general public license or other software that is licensed pursuant to a license that purports to require the distribution of or access to Source Code or purports to restrict one's ability to charge for distribution of or to use software for commercial purposes (collectively "Open Source"), used in, incorporated into, integrated or bundled with, or used in the development or compilation of, any current Company Products, and (ii) to avoid the unintended release of the source code of the Company's Intellectual Property. Section 2.8(h) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of all material Open Source that is

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included in, or provided or distributed with any current Company Product. There has been no material deviation from or violation of the Company's policies with respect to Open Source.

(i) Source Code. Except for Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, Section 2.8(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter identifies each Contract pursuant to which the Company has deposited, or is or may be required to deposit, with an escrow agent or any other Person, any Source Code that is Company Intellectual Property, and describes whether the execution of this Agreement or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, could reasonably result in a release from escrow of any Source Code that is Company Intellectual Property and the grant of incremental rights to a Person with regard to such Source Code. No event has occurred, and no circumstance or condition exists, that (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) will, or would reasonably be expected to, result in the disclosure or delivery by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any Person acting on their behalf to any Person of any Source Code that is Company Intellectual Property under any Contract listed in Section 2.8(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter.

(j) Licenses-In. Other than (i) licenses to Shrink-Wrapped Code, (ii) licenses to Open Source as set forth in Section 2.8(h) of the Company Disclosure Letter and (iii) non-disclosure agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, Section 2.8(j) of the Company Disclosure Letter lists all Contracts that are material to the business of the Company to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party and under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been granted or provided any material rights to Intellectual Property or Intellectual Property Rights by a third party.

(k) Licenses-Out. Other than (i) written non-disclosure agreements and (ii) non-exclusive licenses and related agreements with respect thereto (including software and maintenance and support agreements) of current Company Products to end-users (in each case, pursuant to written agreements that have been entered into in the ordinary course of business that do not materially differ in substance from the Company's standard form(s) (as such form(s) existed at the time of such licenses or agreements), Section 2.8(k) of the Company Disclosure Letter lists all contracts, licenses and agreements related to Company Intellectual Property or Company Products to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party and under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has generated more than $5,000,000 in revenue in a fiscal quarter in any of the last three fiscal years.

(l) Customer Information. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has ownership, free and clear of any Liens or the right to use, of all customer lists, customer contact information, customer correspondence and customer licensing and purchasing histories relating to its current and former customers (the "Customer Information"). No person other than the Company, its wholly owned Subsidiaries, or Persons distributing Company Products through channels (whether by way of sales, licensing, leasing or otherwise) possess any claims or rights with respect to use of the Customer Information.

2.9 Restrictions on Business Activities. Except as set forth in Section 2.9 of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is party to or bound by any Contract containing any covenant (a) limiting in any material respect the right of the Company

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or any of its Subsidiaries to engage in any line of business, to make use of any material Company Intellectual Property or compete with any Person in any material line of business, (b) granting any exclusive distribution rights, or (c) otherwise material and adverse to the right of the Company and its Subsidiaries to sell, distribute or manufacture any Company Products or material Company Intellectual Property or to purchase or otherwise obtain any material software, components, parts or subassemblies. Section 2.9 of the Company Disclosure Letter lists any Contract between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with one of the Company's top 25 customers by revenue for the last fiscal year that provides "most favored nation" or other preferential pricing terms for current Company Products. Except as set forth on Section 2.9 of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is party to or bound by any Contract with one of the Company's top 25 customers by revenue for the last fiscal year containing any covenant providing any third party preferential pricing terms for current Company Products and granting such third party any of the following rights: (i) the right to audit Company records and contracts for the purpose of invoking a preferential pricing or "most favored nation" clause; (ii) the right to receive preferential pricing despite purchasing lower volumes of Company Product or purchasing Company Products pursuant to contractual terms that are dissimilar to those of other Company customers; or (iii) the right to receive retroactive credits or other liquidated damages in the event Company breaches such preferential pricing terms.

2.10 Governmental Authorizations. Each material consent, license, permit, grant or other authorization (i) pursuant to which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries currently operates or holds any material interest in any of their respective material properties, or (ii) which is required for the operation of the Company's or any of its Significant Subsidiaries' business as currently conducted or the holding of any such interest (collectively, "Governmental Authorizations") has been issued or granted to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be. The Governmental Authorizations are in full force and effect. As of the date hereof, no suspension or cancellation of any of the Governmental Authorizations is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened. The Company and its Significant Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with the terms of the Governmental Authorizations. The Subsidiaries of the Company that are not Significant Subsidiaries hold and are in compliance with all consents, licenses, permits, grants or other authorizations necessary for the conduct of their business except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.

2.11 Litigation. Except as set forth in Section 2.11 of the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no material action, suit, claim or proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties (tangible or intangible). Except as set forth in Section 2.11 of the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no material investigation or other proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties (tangible or intangible) by or before any Governmental Entity. Except as set forth in Section 2.11 of the Company Disclosure Letter, there has not been since January 1, 2003, nor are there currently, any internal investigations or inquiries being conducted by the Company, the Company's Board of Directors (or any committee thereof) or any third party at the request of any of the foregoing concerning any financial, accounting, tax, conflict of interest, illegal activity, fraudulent or deceptive conduct or other misfeasance or malfeasance issues.

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2.12 Compliance with Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is in violation or default in any material respect of any Legal Requirements applicable in any material respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or by which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties is bound or affected. None of the Company's Subsidiaries that are not Significant Subsidiaries is in violation or default of any Legal Requirements applicable to such Subsidiary or by which it or its properties is bound or affected, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company. There is no agreement, judgment, injunction, order or decree binding upon the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries which has or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or impairing any business practice of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in such a way as to be material and adverse to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. There is no agreement, judgment, injunction, order or decree binding upon any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Significant Subsidiary which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.

2.13 Environmental Matters.

(a) Hazardous Material. Except as would not be reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has: (i) operated any underground storage tanks at any property that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has at any time owned, operated, occupied or leased, or (ii) released any amount of any substance that has been designated by any Governmental Entity or by applicable foreign, federal, state or local law to be radioactive, toxic, hazardous or otherwise a danger to health or the environment, including, without limitation, PCBs, asbestos, petroleum, toxic mold, urea-formaldehyde and all substances listed as hazardous substances pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, or defined as a hazardous waste pursuant to the United States Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, and the regulations promulgated pursuant to said laws, but excluding office and janitorial supplies properly and safely maintained, (a "Hazardous Material"). Except as would not be reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, no Hazardous Materials are present, as a result of the actions of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or, to the Company's Knowledge, as a result of any actions of any affiliate of the Company or any third party or otherwise, in, on or under any property, including the land and the improvements, ground water and surface water thereof, that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has at any time owned, operated, occupied or leased. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries currently sells any material products for which it is required to pay a waste fee under California law. To the Knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or circumstances likely to prevent or delay the ability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to comply in all material respects, when required, with the Restrictions on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (2002/95/EC) Directive and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (2002/96/EC).

(b) Hazardous Materials Activities. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has transported, stored, used, recycled, manufactured, disposed of, released, removed or exposed its Employees or others to Hazardous Materials or manufactured or distributed for sale any product containing a Hazardous Material (collectively "Hazardous Materials Activities") in violation in

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any material respect of any Legal Requirement or in a manner which has caused or could reasonably be expected to cause a material adverse health effect to any such person.

(c) Permits. The Company and its Subsidiaries currently hold all Permits necessary for the conduct of their Hazardous Material Activities as such activities and businesses are currently being conducted (the "Company Environmental Permits"), except for Permits, the absence of which could not reasonably be expected to result in a material liability for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(d) Environmental Liabilities. No legal action, governmental proceeding, permit revocation proceeding, permit amendment procedure, writ, injunction or claim is pending, or to the Company's Knowledge threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries concerning any Company Environmental Permit, Hazardous Material or any Hazardous Materials Activity of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. The Company is not aware of any fact or circumstance, which could result in any environmental liability which could reasonably be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. Except as would not be reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have entered into any agreement that may require it to guarantee, reimburse, pledge, defend, hold harmless or indemnify any other Person with respect to liabilities arising out of the Hazardous Materials Activities or environmental liabilities of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or of any other Person.

2.14 Brokers' and Finders' Fees. Except for fees payable to Evercore Financial Advisors LLC pursuant to an engagement letter dated May 16, 2005, a copy of which has been provided to Parent, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred, nor will it incur, directly or indirectly, any liability for brokerage or finders' fees or agents' commissions, fees related to investment banking or similar advisory services or any similar charges in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby, nor has the Company or any of its Subsidiaries entered into any indemnification agreement or arrangement with any Person in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

2.15 Transactions with Affiliates. Except as set forth in the Company SEC Reports, since the date of the Company's last proxy statement filed with the SEC, no event has occurred as of the date hereof that would be required to be reported by the Company pursuant to Item 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC.

2.16 Employee Benefit Plans and Compensation.

(a) Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:

"Company Employee Plan" shall mean any material plan, program, policy, practice, contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for compensation, severance, termination pay, deferred compensation, performance awards, stock or stock-related awards, welfare benefits, retirement benefits, fringe benefits or other employee benefits or remuneration of any kind,

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whether written, unwritten or otherwise, funded or unfunded, including each "employee benefit plan," within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which is or has been maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate for the benefit of any Employee, or with respect to which the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has or may have any liability or obligation and any International Employee Plan.

"COBRA" shall mean the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended.

"DOL" shall mean the United States Department of Labor.

"Employee" shall mean any current or former employee, consultant, independent contractor or director of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate.

"Employee Agreement" shall mean each management, employment, severance, separation, settlement, consulting, contractor, relocation, repatriation, expatriation, loan, visa, work permit or other agreement, or contract (including, any offer letter which provides for any term of employment other than employment at will or any agreement providing for acceleration of Company Options or Company Unvested Common Stock, or any other agreement providing for compensation or benefits) between the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate and any director or any Employee pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has or may have any current or future liabilities or obligations in an amount that exceeds $150,000.

"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

"ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any other Person under common control with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code, and the regulations issued thereunder.

"HIPAA" shall mean the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended.

"International Employee Plan" shall mean each Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement that has been adopted or maintained by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate, whether formally or informally, or with respect to which the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate will or may have any liability, for the benefit of Employees who perform services outside the United States.

"IRS" shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.

"Pension Plan" shall mean each Company Employee Plan that is an "employee pension benefit plan," within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA.

"WARN" shall mean the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

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(b) Schedule. Section 2.16(b)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter contains an accurate and complete list of each Company Employee Plan and each Employee Agreement.

(c) Documents. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has made available to Parent (i) correct and complete copies of all documents embodying each Company Employee Plan and each Employee Agreement including all amendments thereto and all related trust documents, (ii) the three most recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached thereto), if any, required under ERISA or the Code in connection with each Company Employee Plan, (iii) if the Company Employee Plan is funded, the most recent annual and periodic accounting of Company Employee Plan assets, (iv) the most recent summary plan description together with the summary(ies) of material modifications thereto, if any, required under ERISA with respect to each Company Employee Plan, (v) all material written agreements and contracts relating to each Company Employee Plan, including administrative service agreements and group insurance contracts, (vi) all communications material to any Employee or Employees relating to any Company Employee Plan and any proposed Company Employee Plan, in each case, relating to any amendments, terminations, establishments, increases or decreases in benefits, acceleration of payments or vesting schedules or other events which would result in any liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (vii) all material correspondence to or from any governmental agency relating to any Company Employee Plan, (viii) forms of COBRA notices and related outsourcing contracts, (ix) all policies pertaining to fiduciary liability insurance covering the fiduciaries for each Company Employee Plan, (x) all discrimination tests for each Company Employee Plan for the three most recent plan years, (xi) all registration statements, annual reports (Form 11-K and all attachments thereto) and prospectuses prepared in connection with each Company Employee Plan, (xii) forms of HIPAA Privacy Notices and forms of Business Associate Agreements to the extent required under HIPAA and (xiii) the most recent IRS determination or opinion letter issued with respect to each Company Employee Plan.

(d) Employee Plan Compliance.

(i) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has performed all material obligations required to be performed by them under, is not in default or violation in any material respect of, and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has no Knowledge of any material default or violation by any other party to, any Company Employee Plan, and each Company Employee Plan has been established and maintained in all material respects in accordance with its terms and in material compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including ERISA or the Code. Any Company Employee Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has obtained a favorable determination letter (or opinion letter, if applicable) as to its qualified status under the Code. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(d)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter, to the Knowledge of the Company, no "prohibited transaction," within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 and 407 of ERISA, and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Company Employee Plan.

(ii) Except as set forth in Section 2.16(d)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no actions, suits or claims pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Company Employee

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Plan or against the assets of any Company Employee Plan. Each Company Employee Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Effective Time in accordance with its terms, without liability to Parent, the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate (other than ordinary administration expenses or with respect to benefits previously earned, vested or accrued thereunder).

(iii) There are no audits, inquiries or proceedings pending or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened by the IRS, DOL, or any other Governmental Entity with respect to any Company Employee Plan. Neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries nor any ERISA Affiliate is subject to any penalty or Tax with respect to any Company Employee Plan under Section 502(i) of ERISA or Sections 4975 through 4980 of the Code.

(iv) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have timely made all contributions and other payments required by and due under the terms of each Company Employee Plan.

(e) No Pension Plan. Neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries nor any current or former ERISA Affiliate has ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to, any Pension Plan subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA, Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code.

(f) Self-Funded Welfare Plan. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(f) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the latest financial or actuarial valuation of the Company's self-funded medical and dental plans discloses that, as of the effective date of the valuation, the aggregate value of the premiums charged or accrued for such medical and dental plans is equal to or greater than the aggregate value of its liabilities assessed on an ongoing basis and calculated in accordance with the actuarial methods and assumptions used in such valuation pursuant to applicable Legal Requirements and GAAP.

(g) Collectively Bargained, Multiemployer and Multiple-Employer Plan. At no time has the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate contributed to or been obligated to contribute to any multiemployer plan (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA). Neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries nor any ERISA Affiliate has at any time ever maintained, established, sponsored, participated in or contributed to any multiple employer plan or any plan described in Section 413 of the Code.

(h) No Post-Employment Obligations. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(h) of the Company Disclosure Letter, no Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, post-termination or retiree life insurance, health or other employee welfare benefits to any person for any reason, except as may be required by COBRA or other applicable statute, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has ever represented, promised or contracted (whether in oral or written form) to any Employee (either individually or to Employees as a group) or any other person that such Employee(s) or other person would be provided with post-termination or retiree life insurance, health or other employee welfare benefits, except to the extent required by statute.

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(i) Effect of Transaction. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or any termination of employment or service in connection therewith will (i) result in any payment (including severance, golden parachute, bonus or otherwise), becoming due to any Employee, (ii) result in any forgiveness of indebtedness, (iii) materially increase any benefits otherwise payable by the Company or any Subsidiary or (iv) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such benefits (including with regard to Company Options) except as required under Section 411(d)(3) of the Code.

(j) Parachute Payments; 409A. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(j)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no agreement, plan, arrangement or other contract covering any Employee that, considered individually or considered collectively with any other such agreements, plans, arrangements or other contracts, will, or could reasonably be expected to, give rise directly or indirectly to the payment of any amount that would be characterized as an excess "parachute payment" within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(j)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no agreement, plan, arrangement or other contract by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound to compensate any Employee for excise taxes paid pursuant to Section 4999 of the Code. Section 2.16(j)(iii) of the Company Disclosure Letter lists all persons who the Company reasonably believes are "disqualified individuals" (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder) as determined as of the date hereof. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(j)(iv) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company is not party to any contract, agreement or arrangement that is a "nonqualified deferred compensation plan" subject to Section 409A of the Code. Prior to the date of this Agreement, the Company has not undergone a change in ownership or effective control as defined in Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

(k) Employment Matters. Except as is not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Legal Requirements respecting employment, employment practices, terms, conditions and classifications of employment, employee safety and health and wages and hours, and in each case, with respect to Employees (i) is not liable for any arrears of wages, severance pay or any Taxes or any penalty for failure to comply with any of the foregoing, and (ii) is not liable for any payment to any trust or other fund governed by or maintained by or on behalf of any governmental authority, with respect to unemployment compensation benefits, social security or other benefits or obligations for Employees (other than routine payments to be made in the normal course of business and consistent with past practice). Except as set forth in Section 2.16(k) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no actions, suits, claims or administrative matters pending, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of their Employees relating to any Employee, Employee Agreement or Company Employee Plan. Except as is not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company, there are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated claims or actions against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any Company trustee or any trustee of any Subsidiary under any worker's compensation policy or long-term disability policy. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(k) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the services provided by

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each of the Company�s, each Subsidiary's and their ERISA Affiliates' Employees are terminable at the will of the Company and its ERISA Affiliates.

(l) Labor. No work stoppage or labor strike against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company threatened. The Company has no Knowledge of any activities or proceedings of any labor union to organize any Employees. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(l) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no actions, suits, claims, labor disputes or grievances pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or reasonably anticipated relating to any labor matters involving any Employee, including charges of unfair labor practices. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged in any unfair labor practices within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is presently, nor has it been in the past, a party to, or bound by, any collective bargaining agreement or union contract with respect to Employees and no collective bargaining agreement is being negotiated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Within the past year, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any liability or obligation under WARN or any similar state or local law that remains unsatisfied, and no terminations prior to the Closing Date shall result in unsatisfied liability or obligation under WARN or any similar state or local law.

(m) International Employee Plan. Except as (i) is not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company; (ii) is required under any Legal Requirements; or (iii) otherwise set forth in Section 2.16(m)(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the foregoing representations contained in Sections 2.16(d) through 2.16(l) are accurate with respect to Employees located outside the United States and International Employee Plans. Except as is not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company, each International Employee Plan has been established, maintained and administered in material compliance with its terms and conditions and with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutory or regulatory laws that are applicable to such International Employee Plan. Except as set forth in Section 2.16(m)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Letter, no International Employee Plan has unfunded liabilities, that as of the Effective Time, will not be offset by insurance or fully accrued. Except as is (i) not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company or (ii) required by law, no condition exists that would prevent the Company or Parent from terminating or amending any International Employee Plan at any time for any reason.

2.17 Contracts.

(a) Material Contracts. For purposes of this Agreement, "Company Material Contract" shall mean any of the following to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or its assets are bound:

(i) any "material contract" (as such term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC) with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries;

(ii) any employment, contractor or consulting Contract with any executive officer or other employee of the Company earning an annual salary in excess of $150,000 or member

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of the Company's Board of Directors, other than those that are terminable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on no more than 30 days notice without liability or financial obligation to the Company;

(iii) any Contract or plan, including, without limitation, any stock option plan, stock appreciation rights plan or stock purchase plan, any of the benefits of which will be increased, or the vesting of benefits of which will be accelerated, by the occurrence of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (either alone or upon the occurrence of additional or subsequent events) or the value of any of the benefits of which will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (either alone or upon the occurrence of additional or subsequent events);

(iv) any agreement of indemnification or any guaranty (other than any agreement of indemnification or guaranty entered into (i) by the Company guaranteeing obligations of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or (ii) in connection with the sale or license of Company Products in the ordinary course of business);

(v) any Contract relating to the disposition or acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a material amount of assets or any interest in any other Person or business enterprise other than the Company's Subsidiaries not in the ordinary course of business;

(vi) any mortgages, indentures, guarantees, loans or credit agreements, security agreements or other Contracts relating to the borrowing of money or extension of credit, other than accounts receivables and payables in the ordinary course of business;

(vii) any material Lease Document;

(viii) any material settlement agreement entered into within two years prior to the date of this Agreement or which otherwise contains continuing material obligations of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries;

(ix) any Contract, or group of Contracts with a Person (or group of affiliated Persons), the termination or breach of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company; or

(x) any other Contract with any obligations to make payments or entitlement to receive payments on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of $20 million or more.

(b) Schedule. Section 2.17(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of all Company Material Contracts to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or is bound by as of the date hereof which are described in Sections 2.17(a)(i) through 2.17(a)(x) hereof, setting forth for each such Company Material Contract, the subsections of Section 2.17(a) applicable to such Company Material Contract.

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(c) No Breach. All Company Material Contracts are valid and in full force and effect except to the extent they have previously expired in accordance with their terms or if the failure to be in full force and effect, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has violated any provision of, or committed or failed to perform any act which, with or without notice, lapse of time or both would constitute a default under the provisions of, any Company Material Contract, except in each case for those violations and defaults which, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

2.18 Insurance. Company has delivered to Parent true, correct and accurate summaries of all insurance policies and fidelity bonds material to the business of the Company. Except as set forth on Section 2.18 of the Company Disclosure Letter, there is no material claim by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pending under any of the insurance policies and fidelity bonds covering the assets, business, equipment, properties, operations, employees, officers and directors of the Company and its Subsidiaries as to which coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed by the underwriters of such policies or bonds.

2.19 Export Control Laws. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has at all times as to which the applicable statute of limitations has not yet expired, conducted its export transactions materially in accordance with (i) all applicable U.S. export and reexport controls, including the United States Export Administration Act and Regulations and Foreign Assets Control Regulations and (ii) all other applicable import/export controls in other countries in which the Company conducts material business. Without limiting the foregoing:

(a) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has obtained, and is in material compliance with, all material export licenses, license exceptions and other consents, notices, waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations, classifications and filings with any Governmental Entity required for (i) the export and reexport of products, services, software and technologies and (ii) releases of technologies and software to foreign nationals located in the United States and abroad ("Export Approvals");

(b) There are no pending or, to the Company's Knowledge, threatened claims against the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to such Export Approvals;

(c) To the Company's Knowledge, there are no actions, conditions or circumstances pertaining to the Company's or any Subsidiary's export transactions that may give rise to any future claims; and

(d) No Export Approvals for the transfer of export licenses to Parent or the Surviving Corporation are required, or such Export Approvals can be obtained expeditiously without material cost.

2.20 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (including any of their officers, directors, agents, distributors, employees or other Person associated

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with or acting on their behalf) has, directly or indirectly, taken any action which would cause it to be in material violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any rules or regulations thereunder or any similar anti-corruption or anti-bribery Legal Requirements applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any jurisdiction other than the United Sates (collectively, the "FCPA"), or, to the Company's Knowledge, used any corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, made, offered or authorized any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees, whether directly or indirectly, or made, offered or authorized any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other similar unlawful payment, whether directly or indirectly, except for any of the foregoing which is no longer subject to potential claims of violation as a result of the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. The Company has established reasonable internal controls and procedures intended to ensure compliance with the FCPA.

2.21 Government Contracts. With respect to each Contract between the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company, on the one hand, and any U.S. federal or Chinese governmental entity, on the other hand, and each outstanding bid, quotation or proposal by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company (each, a "Bid") that if accepted or awarded could lead to a Contract between the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company, on the one hand, and any U.S. federal or Chinese governmental entity, on the other hand, (each such Contract or Bid, a "Company Government Contract") and each Contract between the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company, on the one hand, and any prime contractor or upper-tier subcontractor, on the other hand, relating to a Contract between such person and any U.S. federal or Chinese governmental entity, and each outstanding Bid that if accepted or awarded could lead to a Contract between the Company or a Significant Subsidiary of the Company, on the one hand, and a prime contractor or upper-tier subcontractor, on the other hand, relating to a Contract between such person and any U.S. federal or Chinese governmental entity (each such Contract or Bid, a "Company Government Subcontract"):

(a) Each such Company Government Contract or Company Government Subcontract (other than Bids) was, to the Knowledge of the Company, legally awarded, is binding on the parties thereto, and is in full force and effect, except any failure to be legally awarded or in full force and effect that, individually or in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(b) There is no material action, suit, claim or proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, in connection with any Company Government Contract or Company Government Subcontract, against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries alleging fraud or under the United States False Claims Act, the United States Procurement Integrity Act or the United States Truth in Negotiations Act. Neither the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any cost incurred by the Company or any Company Subsidiary pertaining to a Company Government Contract or Company Government Subcontract is the subject of any audit or, to the Knowledge of the Company, investigation or has been disallowed by any Governmental Entity, except any investigation, audit or disallowance (i) that, individually or in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to result in a material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (ii) which commenced prior to the three year period prior to the date hereof and is closed and no longer pending.

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(c) The Company and the Significant Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with all requirements of the Company Government Contracts or Company Government Subcontracts and any material Legal Requirement relating to the safeguarding of, and access to, classified information. The Company is not aware of any facts that are reasonably likely to give rise to the revocation of any security clearance of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any Employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, except any revocation that, individually or in the aggregate, is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.

2.22 Information Supplied. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by or on behalf of the Company for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the preliminary and definitive proxy statements to be filed by the Company with the SEC in connection with the Merger (collectively, the "Proxy Statement") will, on each relevant filing date, on the date of mailing to the Company's stockholders and at the time of the Stockholders' Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. The Proxy Statement will comply as to form in all material respects with the provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder. If at any time prior to the Effective Time any event relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, officers or directors should be discovered by the Company which is required to be set forth in a supplement to the Proxy Statement, the Company shall promptly inform Parent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any information supplied by Parent or Merger Sub for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Proxy Statement.

2.23 Fairness Opinion. The Company's Board of Directors has received an opinion from Evercore Group Inc., dated as of June 2, 2005, a copy of which will promptly be delivered to Parent, to the effect that, as of such date, the Merger Consideration to be received by the holders of the Company Common Stock pursuant to this Agreement is fair from a financial point of view to the holders of Company Common Stock.

2.24 Takeover Statutes and Rights Plans. The Board of Directors of the Company has taken all actions so that the restrictions contained in Section 203 of Delaware Law applicable to a "business combination" (as defined in such Section 203), and any other similar Legal Requirement, will not apply to Parent during the pendency of this Agreement, including the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby. The Company does not have in effect any "poison pill" or similar plan or agreement which could have a dilutive or otherwise adverse effect on Parent as a result of consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

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ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT

AND MERGER SUB

Parent and Merger Sub represent and warrant to the Company as follows:

3.1 Organization. Parent is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Merger Sub is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware.

3.2 Authority; No Conflict; Necessary Consents.

(a) Authority. Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all requisite corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery by each of Parent and Merger Sub of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Parent and Merger Sub and no other action is required on the part of Parent and Merger Sub to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement or to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, subject only to the filing of the Certificate of Merger pursuant to Delaware Law. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by Parent and Merger Sub and, assuming due execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company, constitutes the valid and binding obligations of Parent, enforceable against each of Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally and to general principles of equity.

(b) No Conflict. The execution and delivery by Parent and Merger Sub of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of their respective certificates of incorporation or bylaws, (ii) subject to compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 3.2(c), conflict with or violate any material Legal Requirement applicable to Parent or Merger Sub or by which Parent or Merger Sub or any of their respective properties or assets (whether tangible or intangible) is bound or affected, or (iii) result in any breach of or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or materially impair Parent's or Merger Sub's rights or alter the rights or obligations of any third party under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of a Lien on any of the properties or assets of Parent or Merger Sub pursuant to, any contract filed with the SEC by Parent pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC; except, in the case of each of the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) for any conflict, violation, beach, default, impairment, alteration, giving of rights or Lien which would not materially adversely affect the ability of the parties hereto to consummate the Merger within the time frame in which the Merger would otherwise be consummated in the absence of such conflict, violation, beach, default, impairment, alteration, giving of rights or Lien.

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obtained by Parent or Merger Sub in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, except for (i) the Necessary Consents; and (ii) such consents, waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings which, if not obtained or made, would not materially adversely affect the ability of the parties hereto to consummate the Merger within the time frame in which the Merger would otherwise be consummated in the absence of the need for such consent, approval, order, authorization, registration, declaration or filing.

3.3 Capital Resources. Parent has, and will have available to it upon the consummation of the Merger, sufficient capital resources to pay the Merger Consideration and to consummate all of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

3.4 Information Supplied. The information supplied or to be supplied by or on behalf of Parent and Merger Sub for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Proxy Statement, will not contain, on the date of the mailing to the Company's stockholders and at the time of the Stockholders' Meeting, any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. If at any time prior to the Effective Time, any event relating to Parent or any of its Affiliates, officers or directors should be discovered by Parent which is required to be set forth in a supplement to the Proxy Statement, Parent shall promptly inform the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent makes no representation or warranty with respect to any information supplied by the Company which is contained in the Proxy Statement.

3.5 Operations of Merger Sub. Merger Sub was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions contemplated hereby, has engaged in no other business activities and has conducted and will conduct its operations prior to the Effective Time only as contemplated hereby.

ARTICLE IV

CONDUCT BY THE COMPANY PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE TIME

4.1 Conduct of Business by the Company.

(a) Ordinary Course. During the period from the date hereof and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms or the Effective Time, the Company and each of its Subsidiaries shall, except as otherwise expressly contemplated by this Agreement or to the extent that Parent shall otherwise consent in writing, (i) carry on its business in the usual, regular and ordinary course, in substantially the same manner as heretofore conducted and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, (ii) pay its debts and taxes when due, pay or perform other material obligations when due, and (iii) adopt and implement a communications plan in consultation with Parent intended to (x) preserve intact its present business organization, (y) keep available the services of its present executive officers and Employees, and (z) preserve its relationships with customers, suppliers, licensors, licensees, and others with which it has business

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dealings. In addition, the Company shall promptly notify in writing Parent of any material adverse event involving its business or operations.

(b) Required Consent. Without limiting the generality of Section 4.1(a), except as permitted by the terms of this Agreement, and except as provided in Section 4.1(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, without the prior written consent of Parent, during the period from the date hereof and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to its terms or the Effective Time, the Company shall not do any of the following, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to do any of the following:

(i) Enter into any new line of business material to it and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;

(ii) Declare, set aside or pay any dividends on or make any other distributions (whether in cash, stock, equity securities or property) in respect of any capital stock or split, combine or reclassify any capital stock or issue or authorize the issuance of any other securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for any capital stock, other than any such transaction by a wholly-owned Subsidiary of it that remains a wholly-owned Subsidiary of it after consummation of such transaction, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(iii) Purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any shares of its capital stock or the capital stock of its Subsidiaries, except repurchases of Company Unvested Common Stock at cost in connection with the termination of the employment relationship with any employee pursuant to stock option or purchase agreements in effect on the date hereof;

(iv) Issue, deliver, sell, authorize, pledge or otherwise encumber any shares of capital stock, Voting Debt or any securities convertible into shares of capital stock or Voting Debt, or subscriptions, rights (including stock appreciation rights whether settled in cash or shares of Company Common Stock), warrants or options to acquire any shares of capital stock or Voting Debt or any securities convertible into shares of capital stock or Voting Debt, or enter into other agreements or commitments of any character obligating it to issue any such securities or rights, other than: (A) issuances of Company Common Stock upon the exercise of Company Options existing on the date hereof or granted pursuant to clause (C) hereof in accordance with their present terms (or terms at the time of grant in the case of grants made pursuant to clause (C) hereof); (B) issuance of shares of Company Common Stock to participants in the Company Purchase Plan pursuant to the terms thereof; and (C) grants of stock options or other stock based awards to employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries (other than executive officers and members of senior management) to acquire, individually, up to 10,000 shares (as adjusted for stock splits and the like) of Company Common Stock and, in the aggregate, up to 200,000 shares (as adjusted for stock splits and the like) of Company Common Stock in any 30-day period, granted under the Company Stock Option Plans, in each case in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices in connection with ordinary course promotions or to new hires and which options or stock based awards have a vesting schedule no more favorable than ratable monthly installments that vest over not less than four years and do not accelerate, or become subject to acceleration, directly or indirectly, as a result of this

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Agreement, the approval or consummation of the Merger and/or termination of employment following or in connection with the Merger;

(v) Cause, permit or propose any amendments to the Company Charter Documents or any of the Subsidiary Charter Documents of the Company's Subsidiaries;

(vi) Acquire or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any equity or voting interest in or a portion of the assets of, or by any other manner, any business or any Person or division thereof, or otherwise acquire or agree to acquire any assets which are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of the Company;

(vii) Enter into any binding agreement, agreement in principle, letter of intent, memorandum of understanding or similar agreement with respect to any material joint venture, strategic partnership or alliance;

(viii) Sell, lease, license, encumber or otherwise dispose of any properties or assets except the sale, lease, license, encumbrance or disposition of property or assets which are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of Company or the licenses of current Company Products, in each case, in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with past practice;

(ix) Effect any material restructuring activities by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including any material reductions in force, lease terminations, restructuring of contracts or similar actions;

(x) Make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other Person, other than: (a) loans or investments by the Company or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company to or in the Company or any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company, or (b) employee loans or advances for travel and entertainment expenses made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;

(xi) Except as required by concurrent changes in GAAP or the SEC as concurred in by its independent auditors, make any change in its methods or principles of accounting or revalue any of its assets;

(xii) Make or change any material election in respect of Taxes, adopt or change any accounting method in respect of Taxes, enter into any agreement or settle any material claim or assessment in respect of Taxes or consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any claim or assessment in respect of Taxes, in each case that would adversely affect the Company or its Subsidiaries, or Parent or its Subsidiaries after the Closing;

(xiii) Except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, enter into any licensing, distribution, supply, procurement, manufacturing, marketing, OEM, VAR, system integrator, system outsourcer or other similar contracts, agreements, or obligations which either (a) may not be canceled without penalty by the Company or its Subsidiaries upon notice of 30 days or less and which provide for express payments by or to the Company or its Subsidiaries in an

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amount in excess of $20 million in any one year or (b) which involve any exclusive terms of any kind which are binding on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

(xiv) Cancel or terminate without reasonable substitute policy therefor, or amend in any material respect or enter into, any material insurance policy, other than the renewal of existing insurance policies on substantially the same terms as in effect on the date hereof;

(xv) Commence or settle any lawsuit, threat of any lawsuit or proceeding or other investigation by or against the Company or any Subsidiary or relating to any of their businesses, properties or assets, other than settlements with prejudice entered into in the ordinary course of business and requiring of the Company and its Subsidiaries only the payment of monetary damages not exceeding $250,000, net of any insurance payments received by the Company;

(xvi) Except as required by Legal Requirements or Contracts currently binding on the Company or its Subsidiaries, (1) increase in any manner the amount of compensation or fringe benefits of, pay or grant any bonus, change of control, severance or termination pay to any Employee or director of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (2) adopt or amend any Company Employee Plan or make any contribution, other than regularly scheduled contributions, to any Company Employee Plan, (3) waive any stock repurchase rights, accelerate, amend or change the period of exercisability of Company Options or Company Unvested Common Stock, or reprice any Company Options or authorize cash payments in exchange for any Company Options, or (4) enter into any Employee Agreement or indemnification agreement with any Employee (other than offer letters and letter agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice with employees who are terminable "at will") or enter into any collectively bargained agreement;

(xvii) Enter into any Contracts containing, or otherwise subject the Surviving Corporation or Parent to, any non-competition, exclusivity, "most favored nations" or other preferential pricing or other material restrictions on the Company or the Surviving Corporation or Parent, or any of their respective businesses, following the Closing, except for exclusivity or preferential pricing provisions which would not restrict the business or assets of Parent or its Subsidiaries (other than the Surviving Corporation) in any way and that are entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(xviii) Provide any material refund, credit, rebate or other allowance to any end user, customer, reseller or distributor, in each case, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(xix) Hire any non-officer employees other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or hire, elect or appoint any officers or directors;

(xx) Incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantee any such indebtedness of another Person, issue or sell any debt securities or options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire any debt securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, guarantee any debt securities of another Person, enter into any "keep well" or other agreement to maintain any financial

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statement condition of any other Person (other than any wholly-owned Subsidiary of it) or enter into any arrangement having the economic effect of any of the foregoing, other than (i) any guarantee by the Company of obligations of its wholly-owned Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or (ii) in connection with the financing of ordinary course trade payables consistent with past practice;

(xxi) Enter into, modify or amend in a manner adverse in any material respect to the Company, or terminate any Company Material Contract, or waive, release or assign any material rights or claims thereunder, in each case, in a manner adverse in any material respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, other than any entry into, modification, amendment or termination of any such Company Material Contract in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice; or

(xxii) Take, commit, or agree in writing or otherwise to take, any of the actions described in Sections 4.1(b)(i) through 4.1(b)(xxi) hereof, or any other action that would prevent the Company from performing, or cause the Company not to perform, their respective covenants or agreements hereunder.

4.2 Procedures for Requesting Parent Consent. Notwithstanding Section 8.2, if the Company desires to take any action which would be prohibited pursuant to Section 4.1(b) hereof without the written consent of Parent, prior to taking such action the Company may request such written consent by sending an e-mail or facsimile to the individuals identified on Schedule 4.2 hereof, and may not take such action until such consent in writing has been received from one of such individuals.

ARTICLE V

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

5.1 Proxy Statement. As promptly as reasonably practicable after the execution of this Agreement, the Company, in consultation with Parent, will prepare and file with the SEC preliminary proxy materials that will constitute the Proxy Statement. The Proxy Statement shall include the notice to stockholders required by Section 262(d)(1) of Delaware Law that appraisal rights will be available. As promptly as reasonably practicable after any comments are received from the SEC thereon (or upon notice from the SEC that no such comments will be made), the Company shall, in consultation with Parent, prepare and file any required amendments to, and the definitive, Proxy Statement with the SEC. The Company will notify Parent promptly upon the receipt of any comments from the SEC or its staff in connection with the filing of, or amendments or supplements to, the Proxy Statement. Whenever any event occurs which is required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy Statement, the Company will promptly inform Parent of such occurrence and will, in consultation with Parent, file with the SEC or its staff, and/or mail to stockholders of the Company, such amendment or supplement. The Company shall provide Parent (and its counsel) with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the preliminary Proxy Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto prior to filing such with the SEC, and will provide Parent with a copy of all such filings made with the SEC. The Company will cause the Proxy Statement to be mailed to its stockholders at the earliest practicable time after the definitive Proxy Statement is filed with the SEC. Parent shall also use all reasonable efforts to take any action

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required to be taken by it under any applicable securities laws in connection with the conversion of Company Options (other than Non-Employee Options) into options to acquire shares of common stock, par value $0.00067 per share, of Parent ("Parent Common Stock"), and the Company shall furnish any information concerning the Company and the holders of Company Common Stock and Company Options as may be reasonably requested in connection with any such action.

5.2 Meeting of Company Stockholders; Board Recommendation.

(a) Meeting of Company Stockholders. The Company will take all action necessary in accordance with Delaware Law and its certificate of incorporation and bylaws to call, hold and convene a meeting of its stockholders, promptly following the mailing of the Proxy Statement to such stockholders, to consider adoption and approval of this Agreement and approval of the Merger (the "Stockholders' Meeting") to be held as promptly as reasonably practicable, and in any event (to the extent permissible under applicable law) within 45 days after the mailing of the Proxy Statement to the Company's stockholders. Subject to Section 5.3(d), the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to solicit from its stockholders proxies in favor of the adoption and approval of this Agreement and the approval of the Merger and will take all other action necessary or advisable to secure the vote or consent of its stockholders required by the rules of The New York Stock Exchange or Delaware Law or any other applicable Legal Requirements to obtain such approvals. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Company may adjourn or postpone the Stockholders' Meeting to the extent necessary to ensure that any necessary supplement or amendment to the Proxy Statement is provided to its stockholders in advance of a vote on the Merger and this Agreement or, if as of the time for which the Stockholders' Meeting is originally scheduled (as set forth in the Proxy Statement) there are insufficient shares of Company Common Stock represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business of such Stockholders' Meeting. The Company shall ensure that the Stockholders' Meeting is called, noticed, convened, held and conducted, and that all proxies solicited by it in connection with the Stockholders' Meeting are solicited in compliance with Delaware Law, its certificate of incorporation and bylaws, the rules of The New York Stock Exchange and all other applicable Legal Requirements.

(b) Board Recommendation. Except to the extent expressly permitted by Section 5.3(d): (i) the Board of Directors of the Company shall recommend that its stockholders vote in favor of adoption and approval of this Agreement and approval of the Merger at the Stockholders' Meeting, (ii) the Proxy Statement shall include a statement to the effect that the Board of Directors of the Company has recommended that the Company's stockholders vote in favor of adoption and approval of this Agreement and approval of the Merger at the Stockholders' Meeting, and (iii) neither the Board of Directors of the Company nor any committee thereof shall withdraw, amend or modify, or propose or resolve to withdraw, amend or modify in a manner adverse to Parent, the recommendation of its Board of Directors that the Company's stockholders vote in favor of adoption and approval of this Agreement and approval of the Merger.

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5.3 Acquisition Proposals.

(a) No Solicitation. The Company agrees that neither it nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any of the officers and directors of it or its Subsidiaries shall, and that it shall use all reasonable efforts to cause its and its Subsidiaries' Employees, agents and representatives (including any investment banker, attorney or accountant retained by it or any of its Subsidiaries) not to (and shall not authorize any of them to) directly or indirectly: (i) solicit, initiate, encourage, knowingly facilitate or induce any inquiry with respect to, or the making, submission or announcement of, any Acquisition Proposal, (ii) participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any Person any nonpublic information with respect to, or take any other action that is intended to facilitate any inquiries or the making of any proposal that constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) engage in discussions with any Person with respect to any Acquisition Proposal, except to notify such Person as to the existence of these provisions, (iv) approve, endorse or recommend any Acquisition Proposal (except to the extent specifically permitted pursuant to Section 5.3(d)), or (v) enter into any letter of intent or similar document or any contract, agreement or commitment contemplating or otherwise relating to any Acquisition Proposal or transaction contemplated thereby. The Company and its Subsidiaries will immediately cease and cause to be terminated any and all existing activities, discussions or negotiations with any third parties conducted heretofore with respect to any Acquisition Proposal.

(b) Notification of Unsolicited Acquisition Proposals.

(i) As promptly as practicable after receipt of any Acquisition Proposal or any request for nonpublic information or inquiry that could reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal, the Company shall provide Parent with notice of the material terms and conditions of such Acquisition Proposal, request or inquiry; the identity of the Person or group making any such Acquisition Proposal, request or inquiry and a copy of all written materials provided by or on behalf of such Person or group in connection with such Acquisition Proposal, request or inquiry. Upon receipt of an Acquisition Proposal, request or inquiry, the Company shall promptly provide Parent with notification setting forth all such information as is reasonably necessary to keep Parent currently informed in all material respects of the status and details (including material amendments or proposed material amendments) of any such Acquisition Proposal, request or inquiry (including any negotiations contemplated by Section 5.3(c)(ii)) and shall promptly provide Parent a copy of all written materials subsequently provided to, by or on behalf of such Person or group in connection with such Acquisition Proposal, request or inquiry.

(ii) The Company shall provide Parent with 48 hours prior notice (or such lesser prior notice as is provided to the members of its Board of Directors) of any meeting of its Board of Directors at which its Board of Directors could reasonably be expected to consider any Acquisition Proposal.

(c) Superior Offers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 5.3(a), in the event that the Company receives an unsolicited, bona fide written Acquisition Proposal from a third party that the Company's Board of Directors has in good faith concluded

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(following consultation with its outside legal counsel and its financial advisor), is, or is reasonably likely to result in, a Superior Offer, the Company may then take the following actions:

(i) Furnish nonpublic information to the third party making such Acquisition Proposal, provided that (a) the Company receives from the third party an executed confidentiality agreement containing customary limitations on the use and disclosure of all nonpublic written and oral information furnished to such third party on the Company's behalf in substantially the form of the Confidentiality Agreement and (b) contemporaneously with furnishing any such nonpublic information to such third party, the Company furnishes such nonpublic information to Parent (to the extent such nonpublic information has not been previously so furnished); and

(ii) Engage in negotiations with the third party with respect to the Acquisition Proposal, provided that concurrently with entering into negotiations with such third party, the Company gives Parent written notice of the Company's intention to enter into negotiations with such third party.

(d) Change of Recommendation. In response to the receipt of a Superior Offer, the Board of Directors of the Company may withhold, withdraw, amend or modify its recommendation in favor of the Merger, and, in the case of a Superior Offer that is a tender or exchange offer made directly to the stockholders of the Company, may recommend that the stockholders of the Company accept the tender or exchange offer (any of the foregoing actions, whether by the Board of Directors of the Company or a committee thereof, a "Change of Recommendation"), if all of the following conditions in clauses (i) through (v) are met:

(i) A Superior Offer with respect to the Company has been made and has not been withdrawn;

(ii) The Stockholders' Meeting has not occurred;

(iii) The Company shall have delivered to Parent written notice (a "Change of Recommendation Notice") at least five days prior to publicly effecting such Change of Recommendation which shall state expressly (A) that the Company has received a Superior Offer, (B) the material terms and conditions of the Superior Offer and the identity of the Person or group making the Superior Offer, and (B) that the Company intends to effect a Change of Recommendation;

(iv) After delivering the Change of Recommendation Notice, the Company shall provide Parent with a reasonable opportunity to make such adjustments in the terms and conditions of this Agreement during such five-day period, and negotiate in good faith with respect thereto during such five-day period, as would enable the Company to proceed with its recommendation to stockholders in favor of approval and adoption of this Agreement and approval of the Merger without making a Change of Recommendation; and

(v) The Company shall not have breached any of the provisions set forth in Section 5.2 or this Section 5.3.

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(e) Compliance with Tender Offer Rules. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall prohibit the Company or its Board of Directors from taking and disclosing to the stockholders of the Company a position contemplated by Rules 14d-9 and 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act; provided that the content of any such disclosure thereunder shall be governed by the terms of this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing proviso, the Company shall not effect a Change of Recommendation unless specifically permitted pursuant to the terms of Section 5.3(d).

(f) Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(i) "Acquisition Proposal," with respect to the Company, shall mean any offer or proposal, relating to any transaction or series of related transactions involving: (a) any purchase from such party or acquisition by any Person or "group" (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder) of more than a 10% interest in the total outstanding voting securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any tender offer or exchange offer that if consummated would result in any Person or group beneficially owning 10% or more of the total outstanding voting securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) any merger, consolidation, business combination or similar transaction involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (c) any sale, lease (other than in the ordinary course of business), exchange, transfer, license (other than in the ordinary course of business), acquisition or disposition of more than 10% of the assets of the Company (including its Subsidiaries taken as a whole), or (d) any liquidation or dissolution of the Company (provided, however, the transactions between Parent and the Company contemplated by this Agreement shall not be deemed an Acquisition Proposal); and

(ii) "Superior Offer," with respect to the Company, shall mean an unsolicited, bona fide written offer made by a third party to acquire, directly or indirectly, pursuant to a tender offer, exchange offer, merger, consolidation or other business combination, all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or all of the outstanding voting securities of the Company as a result of which the stockholders of the Company immediately preceding such transaction would hold less than 50% of the equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction and any direct or indirect parent or subsidiary thereof, on terms that the Board of Directors of the Company has in good faith concluded (following consultation with its outside legal counsel and its financial adviser), taking into account, among other things, all legal, financial, regulatory and other aspects of the offer and the Person making the offer, to be more favorable, from a financial point of view, to the Company's stockholders (in their capacities as stockholders) than the terms of the Merger and is reasonably capable of being consummated.

(g) Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that the provisions of this Section 5.3 were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed by the parties hereto that Parent shall be entitled to an immediate injunction or injunctions, without the necessity of proving the inadequacy of money damages as a remedy and without the necessity of posting any bond or other security, to prevent breaches of the provisions of this Section 5.3 and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof in any court of the United States or any state having jurisdiction, this being in addition to any other remedy to which Parent may be entitled at law or in equity.

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5.4 Confidentiality; Access to Information; No Modification of Representations, Warranties or Covenants.

(a) Confidentiality. The parties acknowledge that the Company and Parent have previously executed a Confidentiality Agreement dated March 18, 2005 (the "Confidentiality Agreement"), which Confidentiality Agreement will continue in full force and effect in accordance with its terms and each of Parent and the Company will hold, and will cause its respective directors, officers, Employees, agents and advisors (including attorneys, accountants, consultants, bankers and financial advisors) to hold, any Evaluation Information (as defined in the Confidentiality Agreement) confidential in accordance with the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement.

(b) Access to Information. The Company shall afford Parent and its accountants, counsel and other representatives, reasonable access (during regular business hours upon reasonable notice) during the period from the date hereof and prior to the Effective Time to (i) all of the properties, books, contracts, commitments and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including all Company Intellectual Property (including access to design processes and methodologies) and all capitalization and equity compensation information that is necessary for Parent to promptly comply with the requirements of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 123 (revised 2004) "Share-Based Payments" promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, (ii) all other information concerning the business, properties and personnel (subject to restrictions imposed by applicable law) of the Company and its Subsidiaries as Parent may reasonably request, and (iii) all Employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries as reasonably requested by Parent. The Company agrees to promptly provide to Parent and its accountants, counsel and other representatives copies of such internal financial statements (including Tax Returns and supporting documentation) as may be reasonably requested. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may restrict the foregoing access to the extent that (A) in the reasonable judgment of the Company, any law, treaty, rule or regulation of any Governmental Entity applicable to the Company requires the Company or its Subsidiaries to restrict or prohibit access to any such properties or information, (B) in the reasonable judgment of the Company, the information is subject to confidentiality obligations to a third party, (C) in the reasonable judgment of the Company, such disclosure would result in disclosure of any trade secrets of third parties, or (D) in the reasonable judgment of the Company, disclosure of any such information or document would result in the loss of the Company's attorney-client privilege; provided, however, that in the case of each of (A), (B), (C) or (D), Parent and the Company each agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to establish a process that, through use of steps such as targeted redactions, provision of information to counsel to review and summarize for Parent or use of a �clean room� environment for analysis and review of information by joint integration teams in coordination with counsel and the Company, will provide Parent with timely access to the fullest extent possible to the substance of the information described in this Section 5.4(b) in a manner that allows the Company to comply with applicable law and its confidentiality obligations to third parties or preserve the Company's attorney-client privilege, as the case may be. In addition, the Company will, in consultation with Parent, prepare and implement a plan designed to ensure timely compliance by the Company and its Subsidiaries with the requirements of the Restrictions on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (2002/95/EC) Directive.

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(c) No Modification of Representations and Warranties or Covenants. No information or knowledge obtained in any investigation or notification pursuant to this Section 5.4, Section 5.6 or Section 5.7 or otherwise shall affect or be deemed to modify any representation or warranty contained herein, the covenants or agreements of the parties hereto or the conditions to the obligations of the parties hereto under this Agreement.

5.5 Public Disclosure. Without limiting any other provision of this Agreement, Parent and the Company will consult with each other before issuing, and provide each other the opportunity to review, comment upon and concur with, and use all reasonable efforts to agree on any press release or public statement with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger, and any Acquisition Proposal and will not issue any such press release or make any such public statement prior to such consultation and (to the extent practicable) agreement, except as may be required by law or any listing agreement with, in the case of Parent, Nasdaq, and in the case of the Company, The New York Stock Exchange, or any other applicable national or regional securities exchange or market. The parties have agreed to the text of the joint press release announcing the signing of this Agreement.

5.6 Regulatory Filings; Reasonable Efforts.

(a) Regulatory Filings. Each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company shall coordinate and cooperate with one another and shall each use all reasonable efforts to comply with, and shall each refrain from taking any action that would impede compliance with, all Legal Requirements, and as promptly as practicable after the date hereof, each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company shall make all filings, notices, petitions, statements, registrations, submissions of information, application or submission of other documents required by any Governmental Entity in connection with the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation: (i) Notification and Report Forms with the FTC and the DOJ and responses to requests for additional information and documentary material from the FTC and the DOJ ("Second Request Responses") as required by the HSR Act, (ii) filings under any other comparable pre-merger notification forms reasonably determined by Parent and the Company to be required by the merger notification or control laws of any applicable jurisdiction, as agreed by the parties hereto, and (iii) any filings required under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any applicable state or securities or "blue sky" laws and the securities laws of any foreign country, or any other Legal Requirement relating to the Merger. Each of Parent and the Company will cause all documents that it is responsible for filing with any Governmental Entity under this Section 5.6(a) to comply in all material respects with all applicable Legal Requirements.

(b) Exchange of Information. Parent, Merger Sub and the Company each shall promptly supply the other with any information that may be required in order to effectuate any filings or application pursuant to Section 5.6(a). Except where prohibited by applicable Legal Requirements, and subject to the Confidentiality Agreement, each of the Company, Merger Sub and Parent shall consult with the other prior to taking a position with respect to any such filing, shall permit the other to review and discuss in advance, and consider in good faith the views of the other in connection with any analyses, appearances, presentations, filings, submissions, memoranda, briefs, white papers, arguments, opinions and proposals before making or submitting any of the

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foregoing to any Governmental Entity by or on behalf of any party hereto in connection with any investigations or proceedings in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (including under any antitrust or fair trade Legal Requirement), coordinate with the other in preparing and exchanging such information and promptly provide the other and/or its counsel with copies of all filings, presentations or submissions (and a summary of any oral presentations) made by such party with any Governmental Entity in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, provided that with respect to any such filing, presentation or submission, each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company need not supply the other (or its counsel) with copies (or in the case of oral presentations, a summary) to the extent that any law, treaty, rule or regulation of any Governmental Entity applicable to such party requires such party or its Subsidiaries to restrict or prohibit access to any such properties or information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as may be agreed in connection with any joint defense agreement executed between counsel for Parent and counsel for the Company, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company will not be required to share with each other any documents covered by Item 4(c) of filings prepared in connection with the HSR Act or Second Request Responses.

(c) Notification. Each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company will notify the other promptly upon the receipt of: (i) any comments from any officials of any Governmental Entity in connection with any filings made pursuant hereto and (ii) any request by any officials of any Governmental Entity for amendments or supplements to any filings made pursuant to, or information provided to comply in all material respects with, any Legal Requirements. Whenever any event occurs that is required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to any filing made pursuant to Section 5.6(a), Parent, Merger Sub or the Company, as the case may be, will promptly inform the other of such occurrence and cooperate in filing with the applicable Governmental Entity such amendment or supplement.

(d) Reasonable Efforts. Subject to the express provisions of Section 5.2 and Section 5.3 hereof and upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, each of the parties agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including using all reasonable efforts to accomplish the following: (i) the taking of all reasonable acts necessary to cause the conditions precedent set forth in Article VI to be satisfied, (ii) the obtaining of all necessary actions or nonactions, waivers, consents, approvals, orders and authorizations from Governmental Entities and the making of all necessary registrations, declarations, submissions and filings (including registrations, declarations, filings and submissions of Second Request Responses with Governmental Entities, if any) and the taking of all reasonable steps as may be necessary to avoid any suit, claim, action, investigation or proceeding by any Governmental Entity, (iii) the obtaining of all necessary consents, approvals or waivers from third parties, (iv) the defending of any suits, claims, actions, investigations or proceedings, whether judicial or administrative, challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and (v) the execution or delivery of any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by, and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement. In connection with and without limiting the foregoing, the Company and its Board of Directors shall, if any takeover statute or similar Legal

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Requirement is or becomes applicable to the Merger, this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, use all reasonable efforts to ensure that the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be consummated as promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated by this Agreement and otherwise to minimize the effect of such Legal Requirement on the Merger, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

(e) Limitation on Divestiture. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to require Parent or any Subsidiary or affiliate thereof to agree to any Action of Divestiture that would be reasonably likely to materially impact Parent and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent of Parent, take or agree to take any Action of Divestiture that would be reasonably likely to materially impact Parent and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. For purposes of this Agreement, an "Action of Divestiture" shall mean (i) any license, sale or other disposition or holding separate (through establishment of a trust or otherwise) of any shares of capital stock or of any business, assets or properties of Parent, its subsidiaries or affiliates, or of the Company or its Subsidiaries, (ii) the imposition of any limitation on the ability of Parent, its subsidiaries or affiliates, or the Company or its Subsidiaries to conduct their respective businesses or own any capital stock or assets or to acquire, hold or exercise full rights of ownership of their respective businesses and, in the case of Parent, the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries, or (iii) the imposition of any impediment on Parent, its subsidiaries or affiliates, or the Company or its Subsidiaries under any statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, order or other legal restraint governing competition, monopolies or restrictive trade practices.

5.7 Notification of Certain Matters.

(a) By the Company. The Company shall give prompt notice to Parent and Merger Sub of any representation or warranty made by it contained in this Agreement becoming untrue or inaccurate, or any failure of the Company to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it under this Agreement, in each case, such that the conditions set forth in Section 6.2(a) or 6.2(b) would not be satisfied.

(b) By Parent. Parent and Merger Sub shall give prompt notice to the Company of any representation or warranty made by it contained in this Agreement becoming untrue or inaccurate, or any failure of Parent to comply with or satisfy in any material respect any covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it under this Agreement, in each case, such that the conditions set forth in Section 6.3(a) or 6.3(b) would not be satisfied.

5.8 Third-Party Consents. As soon as practicable following the date hereof, the Company will use all reasonable efforts to seek such material consents, waivers and approvals under any of its or its Subsidiaries' respective Contracts required to be obtained in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby as may be reasonably requested by Parent after consultation with the Company, including all consents, waivers and approvals set forth in Section 2.3(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter. In connection with seeking such consents, waivers and approvals, the Company shall keep Parent informed of all material developments and,

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shall at Parent's request, include Parent in any discussions or communications with any parties whose consent, waiver or approval is sought hereunder. Such consents, waivers and approvals shall be in a form acceptable to Parent. In the event the Merger does not close for any reason, Parent shall not have any liability to the Company, its stockholders or any other Person for any costs, claims, liabilities or damages resulting from the Company seeking to obtain such consents, waivers and approvals. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company's failure to obtain any consent set forth in Section 2.3(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter or which is otherwise reasonably requested to be obtained by Parent pursuant to this Section 5.8, in each case, provided that the Company has used all reasonable efforts to seek such consent, shall not give rise to a failure to satisfy the condition to closing set forth in Section 6.2(b).

5.9 Equity Awards and Employee Matters.

(a) Assumption of Employee Stock Options. At the Effective Time, each then outstanding Company Option other than Non-Employee Options, whether or not exercisable at the Effective Time and regardless of the respective exercise prices thereof, will be assumed by Parent. Each Company Option other than Non-Employee Options so assumed by Parent under this Agreement will continue to have, and be subject to, the same terms and conditions set forth in the applicable Company Option (including any applicable stock option agreement or other document evidencing such Company Option) immediately prior to the Effective Time (including any repurchase rights or vesting provisions), except that (i) each such Company Option will be exercisable (or will become exercisable in accordance with its terms) for that number of whole shares of Parent Common Stock equal to the product of the number of shares of Company Common Stock that were issuable upon exercise of such Company Option immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by the ratio of the value of the per share Merger Consideration to the average of the closing prices for a share of Parent Common Stock on the ten trading days ended one trading day prior to the Closing Date (such ratio, the "Option Ratio"), rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares of Parent Common Stock and (ii) the per share exercise price for the shares of Parent Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such assumed Company Option will be equal to the quotient determined by dividing the exercise price per share of Company Common Stock at which such Company Option was exercisable immediately prior to the Effective Time by the Option Ratio, rounded up to the nearest whole cent. Each assumed Company Option shall be vested immediately following the Effective Time as to the same percentage of the total number of shares subject thereto as it was vested as to immediately prior to the Effective Time, except to the extent such Company Option by its terms as of the Effective Time provides for acceleration of vesting upon the Effective Time. As soon as reasonably practicable, Parent will use all reasonable efforts to issue to each Person who holds an assumed Company Option a document evidencing the foregoing assumption of such Company Option by Parent and, as a condition to such assumption, each former holder of a Company Option so assumed by Parent shall acknowledge the receipt of the same in exchange for such holder's Company Option.

(b) Incentive Stock Options. The conversion of Company Options provided for in Section 5.9(a), with respect to any options which are intended to be "incentive stock options" (as defined in Section 422 of the Code) shall be effected in a manner consistent with Section 424(a) of the Code.

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(c) Termination of Company Employee Stock Purchase Plans. Prior to the Effective Time, each of the Company Purchase Plans shall be terminated. The rights of participants in each Company Purchase Plan with respect to any offering period then underway under such Company Purchase Plan shall be determined by treating the last Business Day prior to, or if more administratively advisable, the last payroll date of the Company immediately prior to, the Effective Time, as the last day of such offering period and by making such other pro-rata adjustments as may be necessary to reflect the shortened offering period but otherwise treating such shortened offering period as a fully effective and completed offering period for all purposes under such Company Purchase Plan. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall take all actions (including, if appropriate, amending the terms of such the Company Purchase Plan) that are necessary to give effect to the transactions contemplated by this Section 5.9(c).

(d) Termination of 401(k) Plans. Effective as of no later than the day immediately preceding the Closing Date, each of the Company, its Subsidiaries and any ERISA Affiliate shall terminate any and all Company Employee Plans intended to include a Code Section 401(k) arrangement, including specifically the Company Subsidiary 401(k) plan for its employees in Puerto Rico (unless Parent provides written notice to the Company that any such 401(k) plan shall not be terminated). Unless Parent provides such written notice to the Company, no later than five Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall provide Parent with evidence that such Company Employee Plan(s) have been terminated (effective as of no later than the day immediately preceding the Closing Date) pursuant to resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company, its Subsidiaries or such ERISA Affiliate, as the case may be. The form and substance of such resolutions shall be provided by Parent. The Company also shall take such other actions in furtherance of terminating such Company Employee Plan(s) as Parent may reasonably require.

5.10 Form S-8. Parent agrees to file a registration statement on Form S-8 for the shares of Parent Common Stock issuable with respect to assumed Company Options to the extent Form S-8 is available within 60 days after the Effective Time.

5.11 Indemnification.

(a) Indemnity. From and after the Effective Time, Parent will, and will cause the Surviving Corporation to, fulfill and honor in all respects the obligations of the Company pursuant to the indemnification provisions of the Surviving Corporation's Bylaws as in effect as of the date hereof and any indemnification agreements between the Company and its directors and officers in effect as of the date hereof (including, to the extent indemnifiable thereunder, for acts or omissions occuring in connection with the approval of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby) (the "Indemnified Parties"). The Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Surviving Corporation (or any successor to the Surviving Corporation) will contain provisions with respect to exculpation, indemnification and the advancement of expenses that are at least as favorable to the Indemnified Parties as those contained in the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company as in effect on the date hereof, which provisions will not, except as required by law, be amended, repealed or otherwise modified in any manner that would adversely affect the rights thereunder of Indemnified Parties unless the Surviving Corporation (or any successor to the Surviving Corporation) provides other assurance sufficient to ensure the

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continued exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses of the Indemnified Parties as provided in such Bylaws prior to any such amendment, repeal or modification.

(b) Insurance. For a period of six years after the Effective Time, Parent will cause the Surviving Corporation to maintain directors' and officers' liability insurance with one or more reputable unaffiliated third-party insurers maintained by the Company covering those persons who are covered by the Company's directors' and officers' liability insurance policy as of the date hereof for events occurring prior to the Effective Time on terms and conditions that are, in the aggregate, no less favorable to the insured than those applicable to the current directors and officers of the Company; provided, however, that in no event will the Surviving Corporation be required to expend in any one year in excess of 250% of the annual premium currently paid by the Company for such coverage (and to the extent annual premium would exceed 250% of the annual premium currently paid by the Company for such coverage, the Surviving Corporation shall use all reasonable efforts to cause to be maintained the maximum amount of coverage as is available for such 250% of such annual premium) and provided further, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent may satisfy its obligations under this Section 5.11(b) by purchasing a "tail" policy under the Company's existing directors' and officers' insurance policy which (i) has an effective term of six years from the Effective Time, (ii) covers those persons who are currently covered by the Company's directors' and officers' insurance policy in effect as of the date hereof for actions and omissions occurring on or prior to the Effective Time, and (iii) contains terms and conditions that are, in the aggregate, no less favorable to the insured than those of the Company's directors' and officers' insurance policy in effect as of the date hereof.

(c) Third�Party Beneficiaries. This Section 5.11 is intended to be for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by the Indemnified Parties and their heirs and personal representatives and shall be binding on Parent and the Surviving Corporation and their respective successors and assigns. In the event Parent or the Surviving Corporation or its successor or assign (i) consolidates with or merges into any other Person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation or entity in such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfers all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, then, and in each case, proper provision shall be made so that the successor and assign of Parent or the Surviving Corporation, as the case may be, honor the obligations set forth with respect to Parent or the Surviving Corporation, as the case may be, in this Section 5.11.

5.12 Section 16 Matters. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall take all such steps as may be required (to the extent permitted under applicable law) to cause any dispositions of Company Common Stock (including derivative securities with respect to Company Common Stock) resulting from the transactions contemplated by Article I of this Agreement by each individual who is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act with respect to the Company to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

5.13 Insurance Approval. The Company shall deliver to Parent at least 15 days prior to the Closing a letter in a form acceptable to Parent validly executed by an officer of the Company, which authorizes Parent's insurance broker, effective as of the Closing Date, to act as the Company's insurance broker of record with respect to all insurance policies held by the Company.

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5.14 Immigration-Related Liabilities. Following the Effective Time, Parent shall assume all immigration-related liabilities of the Company with respect to persons who are employees of the Company as of the Effective Time.

ARTICLE VI

CONDITIONS TO THE MERGER

6.1 Conditions to the Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of each party to this Agreement to effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing Date of the following conditions:

(a) Company Stockholder Approval. This Agreement shall have been approved and adopted, and the Merger shall have been duly approved, by the requisite vote under applicable law, by the stockholders of the Company.

(b) No Order. No Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, injunction or other order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which (i) is in effect and (ii) has the effect of making the Merger illegal or otherwise prohibiting or preventing consummation of the Merger.

(c) HSR Act. All waiting periods (and any extension thereof) under the HSR Act relating to the transactions contemplated hereby will have expired or terminated early. All other material foreign antitrust approvals reasonably determined by Parent and the Company to be required to be obtained prior to the Merger in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained.

6.2 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Parent. The obligations of Parent and Merger Sub to consummate and effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing Date of each of the following conditions, any of which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by Parent and Merger Sub:

(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement shall have been true and correct as of the date hereof and shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date (except that those representations and warranties which address matters only as of a particular date shall have been true and correct only on such date), except, in each case or in the aggregate (other than the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2.2, Section 2.3(a), and Section 2.24 which shall be true and correct in all material respects), as does not constitute a Material Adverse Effect on the Company at the Closing Date (it being understood that, for purposes of determining the accuracy of such representations and warranties, any update of or modification to the Company Disclosure Letter made or purported to have been made after the execution of this Agreement shall be disregarded). Parent and Merger Sub shall have received a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of the Company by an authorized executive officer of the Company.

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(b) Agreements and Covenants. The Company shall have performed or complied in all material respects with all agreements and covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing Date, and Parent and Merger Sub shall have received a certificate to such effect signed on behalf of the Company by an authorized executive officer of the Company.

(c) Material Adverse Effect. No Material Adverse Effect on the Company shall have occurred since the date hereof and be continuing.

(d) No Governmental Restriction. There shall not be any pending or threatened suit, action or proceeding asserted by any Governmental Authority (i) challenging or seeking to restrain or prohibit the consummation of the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the effect of which restraint or prohibition if obtained would cause the condition set forth in Section 6.1(b) to not be satisfied or (ii) seeking to require Parent or the Company or any Subsidiary or affiliate to effect an Action of Divestiture.

6.3 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of the Company. The obligation of the Company to consummate and effect the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing Date of each of the following conditions, any of which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by the Company:

(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of Parent and Merger Sub contained in this Agreement shall have been true and correct as of the date hereof and shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date (except that those representations and warranties which address matters only as of a particular date shall have been true and correct only on such date), except, in each case, or in the aggregate, as does not materially impede the authority of Parent or Merger Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof and applicable Legal Requirements. The Company shall have received a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of Parent, with respect to the representations and warranties of Parent, by an authorized executive officer of Parent and a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of Merger Sub, with respect to the representations and warranties of Merger Sub, by an authorized executive officer of Merger Sub.

(b) Agreements and Covenants. Parent and Merger Sub shall have performed or complied in all material respects with all agreements and covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it on or prior to the Closing Date, and the Company shall have received a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of Parent, with respect to the covenants of Parent, by an authorized executive officer of Parent and a certificate with respect to the foregoing signed on behalf of Merger Sub, with respect to the covenants of Merger Sub, by an authorized executive officer of Merger Sub.

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ARTICLE VII

TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER

7.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Effective Time, by action taken by the terminating party or parties, and except as provided below, whether before or after the requisite approvals of the stockholders of the Company:

(a) by mutual written consent duly authorized by the Boards of Directors of each of Parent and the Company;

(b) by either the Company or Parent if the Merger shall not have been consummated by December 2, 2005 which date shall be extended to March 2, 2006 if the Merger shall not have been consummated as a result of a failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Section 6.1(c) (the "End Date"); provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 7.1(b) shall not be available to any party whose action or failure to act has been a principal cause of or resulted in the failure of the Merger to occur on or before such date and such action or failure to act constitutes a breach of this Agreement;

(c) by either the Company or Parent if a Governmental Entity shall have issued an order, decree or ruling or taken any other action (including the failure to have taken an action), in any case having the effect of permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Merger, which order, decree, ruling or other action is final and nonappealable;

(d) by either the Company or Parent if the required approval of the stockholders of the Company contemplated by this Agreement shall not have been obtained by reason of the failure to obtain the required vote at a meeting of the Company stockholders duly convened therefore or at any adjournment thereof; provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 7.1(d) shall not be available to the Company where the failure to obtain such stockholder approval shall have been caused by the action or failure to act of Company and such action or failure to act constitutes a breach by the Company of this Agreement;

(e) by Parent (at any time prior to the adoption and approval of this Agreement and the Merger by the required vote of the stockholders of the Company) if (i) a Triggering Event with respect to the Company shall have occurred, or (ii) a material breach of Section 5.3 of this Agreement shall have occurred;

(f) by the Company, upon a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on the part of Parent set forth in this Agreement, or if any representation or warranty of Parent shall have become untrue, in either case such that the conditions set forth in Section 6.3(a) or Section 6.3(b) would not be satisfied as of the time of such breach or as of the time such representation or warranty shall have become untrue, provided that if such inaccuracy in Parent's representations and warranties or breach by Parent is curable by Parent prior to the End Date through the exercise of reasonable efforts, then the Company may not terminate this Agreement under this Section 7.1(f) prior to 20 days following the receipt of written notice from the Company to Parent of such breach, provided that Parent continues to exercise all reasonable efforts to cure such breach

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through such 20 day period (it being understood that the Company may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this paragraph (f) if it shall have materially breached this Agreement or if such breach by Parent is cured within such 20 day period);

(g) by Parent, upon a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on the part of the Company set forth in this Agreement, or if any representation or warranty of the Company shall have become untrue, in either case such that the conditions set forth in Section 6.2(a) or Section 6.2(b) would not be satisfied as of the time of such breach or as of the time such representation or warranty shall have become untrue, provided, that if such inaccuracy in the Company's representations and warranties or breach by the Company is curable by the Company prior to the End Date through the exercise of reasonable efforts, then Parent may not terminate this Agreement under this Section 7.1(g) prior to 20 days following the receipt of written notice from Parent to the Company of such breach, provided that the Company continues to exercise all reasonable efforts to cure such breach through such 20 day period (it being understood that Parent may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this paragraph (g) if it shall have materially breached this Agreement or if such breach by the Company is cured within such 20 day period); and

(h) by the Company, if, the Board of Directors of the Company shall have effected a Change of Recommendation pursuant to and in compliance with Section 5.3(d), the Company shall have paid Parent the Termination Fee described in Section 7.3(b) and the Company shall have publicly announced its intention to accept or enter into the Superior Offer which was the subject of such Change of Recommendation.

For the purposes of this Agreement, a "Triggering Event," with respect to the Company, shall be deemed to have occurred if: (i) its Board of Directors or any committee thereof shall for any reason have withdrawn or shall have amended or modified in a manner adverse to Parent its recommendation in favor of, the adoption and approval of the Agreement or the approval of the Merger, (ii) it shall have failed to include in the Proxy Statement the recommendation of its Board of Directors in favor of the adoption and approval of the Agreement and the approval of the Merger, (iii) its Board of Directors fails to reaffirm (publicly, if so requested) its recommendation in favor of the adoption and approval of the Agreement and the approval of the Merger within five calendar days after Parent requests in writing that such recommendation be reaffirmed following the occurrence of an Alternative Transaction Announcement or if in Parent's reasonable judgment there are circumstances that create uncertainty in the public markets regarding the position of the Company's Board of Directors concerning the Merger (provided that such reaffirmation need not be given prior to ten business days after the occurrence of an Alternative Transaction Announcement, except that in any event such reaffirmation must be given no later than 24 hours prior to the Stockholders' Meeting), (iv) its Board of Directors or any committee thereof shall have approved or recommended any Acquisition Proposal, (v) the Company shall have entered into any letter of intent or similar document or any agreement, contract or commitment accepting any Acquisition Proposal; or (vi) a tender or exchange offer relating to its securities shall have been commenced by a Person unaffiliated with Parent, and the Company shall not have sent to its security holders pursuant to Rule 14e-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act, within ten business days after such tender or exchange offer is first published, sent or given, a statement disclosing that the Board of Directors of the Company recommends rejection of such tender or exchange offer.

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For the purposes of this Agreement, an "Alternative Transaction Announcement" means such time as a tender or exchange offer is first published, sent or given that requires the Company to adopt a position contemplated by Rules 14d-9 and 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act or such time as a third party publicly announces a proposal to effect an Acquisition of the Company.

7.2 Notice of Termination; Effect of Termination. Any termination of this Agreement under Section 7.1 above will be effective immediately upon the delivery of a valid written notice of the terminating party to the other party hereto. In the event of the termination of this Agreement as provided in Section 7.1, this Agreement shall be of no further force or effect, except (i) as set forth in Section 5.4(a), this Section 7.2, Section 7.3 and Article VIII, each of which shall survive the termination of this Agreement and (ii) nothing herein shall relieve any party from liability for any fraud or willful breach of this Agreement. No termination of this Agreement shall affect the obligations of the parties contained in the Confidentiality Agreement, all of which obligations shall survive termination of this Agreement in accordance with their terms.

7.3 Fees and Expenses.

(a) General. Except as set forth in this Section 7.3, all fees and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be paid by the party incurring such expenses whether or not the Merger is consummated.

(b) Company Payment.

(i) Payment. In the event that this Agreement is terminated by Parent or the Company, as applicable, pursuant to Section 7.1(d), clause (i) of Section 7.1(e) or Section 7.1(h), the Company shall promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days after the date of such termination, pay Parent a fee equal to $133 million in immediately available funds (the "Termination Fee"); provided, that (i) in the case of termination under Section 7.1(h), such payment shall be made prior to such termination and (ii) in the case of termination under Section 7.1(d), (a) such payment shall be made only if following the date hereof and prior to the termination of this Agreement, there has been disclosure publicly or to any member of the Board of Directors or any officer of the Company of an Acquisition Proposal with respect to the Company and within 12 months following the termination of this Agreement an Acquisition of the Company is consummated or the Company enters into a definitive agreement with respect to an Acquisition of the Company and (b) such payment shall be made promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days after the consummation of such Acquisition of the Company or the entry into such definitive agreement by the Company.

(ii) Interest and Costs; Other Remedies. The Company acknowledges that the agreements contained in this Section 7.3(b) are an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and that, without these agreements, Parent would not enter into this Agreement; accordingly, if the Company fails to pay in a timely manner the amounts due pursuant to this Section 7.3(b), and, in order to obtain such payment, Parent makes a claim that results in a judgment against the Company for the amounts set forth in this Section 7.3(b), the Company shall pay to Parent the reasonable costs and expenses of Parent (including reasonable attorneys' fees and

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expenses) in connection with such suit, together with interest on the amounts set forth in this Section 7.3(b) at the prime rate of Citibank, N.A. in effect on the date such payment was required to be made. Payment of the fees described in this Section 7.3(b) shall not be in lieu of damages incurred in the event of breach of this Agreement.

(iii) Certain Definitions. For the purposes of this Section 7.3(b) only, "Acquisition," with respect to a party hereto, shall mean any of the following transactions (other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement): (i) a merger, consolidation, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or similar transaction involving the party pursuant to which the equity interests held in such party and retained following such transaction or issued to or otherwise received in such transaction by the stockholders of the party immediately preceding such transaction constitute less than 50% of the aggregate equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction or any direct or indirect parent thereof, (ii) a sale or other disposition by the party of assets representing in excess of 50% of the aggregate fair market value of the party's business immediately prior to such sale, or (iii) the acquisition by any Person or group (including by way of a tender offer or an exchange offer or issuance by the party or such Person or group), directly or indirectly, of beneficial ownership or a right to acquire beneficial ownership of shares representing in excess of 50% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the party.

7.4 Amendment. Subject to applicable law, this Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto, by action taken or authorized by their respective Boards of Directors, at any time before or after approval of the Merger by the stockholders of the Company, provided, after approval of the Merger by the stockholders of the Company, no amendment shall be made which by law or in accordance with the rules of any relevant stock exchange including The New York Stock Exchange requires further approval by the stockholders of the Company without such further stockholder approval. This Agreement may not be amended except by execution of an instrument in writing signed on behalf of each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company.

7.5 Extension; Waiver. At any time prior to the Effective Time either party hereto, by action taken or authorized by their respective Board of Directors, may, to the extent legally allowed: (i) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other parties hereto, (ii) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties made to such party contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto, and (iii) waive compliance with any of the agreements or conditions for the benefit of such party contained herein. Any agreement on the part of a party hereto to any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed on behalf of such party. Delay in exercising any right under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right.

ARTICLE VIII

GENERAL PROVISIONS

8.1 Non-Survival of Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub contained in this Agreement, or any instrument

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delivered pursuant to this Agreement, shall terminate at the Effective Time, and only the covenants that by their terms survive the Effective Time and this Article VIII shall survive the Effective Time.

8.2 Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed duly given (i) on the date of delivery if delivered personally and/or by messenger service, (ii) on the date of confirmation of receipt (or, the first Business Day following such receipt if the date is not a Business Day) of transmission by facsimile, or (iii) on the date of confirmation of receipt (or, the first Business Day following such receipt if the date is not a Business Day) if delivered by a nationally recognized courier service. All notices hereunder shall be delivered as set forth below, or pursuant to such other instructions as may be designated in writing by the party to receive such notice:

(a) if to Parent or Merger Sub, to:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

4120 Network Circle

Santa Clara, CA 95054

Attention: Brian Sutphin

Telephone No.: 1-800-555-9786

Telecopy No.: 1-408-276-4601

with copies to:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

4120 Network Circle

Santa Clara, CA 95054

Attention: Brian Martin

Telephone No.: 1-800-555-9786

Telecopy No.: 1-408-276-4601

and

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Professional Corporation

650 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, California 94304-1050

Attention: Martin W. Korman

Telephone No.: (650) 493-9300

Telecopy No.: (650) 493-6811

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if to the Company, to:

Storage Technology Corporation

One StorageTek Drive

Louisville, Colorado 80028

Attention: Patrick J. Martin

Telephone No.: (303) 673-5151

Telecopy No.: (303) 673-4150

with copies to:

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

One World Financial Center

New York, NY 10281

Attention: Dennis J. Block

Telephone No.: (212) 504-5555

Telecopy No.: (212) 504-6666

8.3 Interpretation; Knowledge.

(a) When a reference is made in this Agreement to Exhibits, such reference shall be to an Exhibit to this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. When a reference is made in this Agreement to Sections, such reference shall be to a section of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. For purposes of this Agreement, the words "include," "includes" and "including," when used herein, shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words "without limitation." The table of contents and headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. When reference is made herein to "the business of" an entity, such reference shall be deemed to include the business of such entity and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(b) For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Knowledge" means, with respect to the Company, with respect to any matter in question, that any of the individuals on Schedule 8.3(b), has actual knowledge of such matter.

(c) For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Material Adverse Effect," when used in connection with an entity, means any change, event, violation, inaccuracy, circumstance or effect (any such item, an "Effect"), individually or when taken together with all other Effects that have occurred prior to the date of determination of the occurrence of the Material Adverse Effect, that is or is reasonably likely to (i) be materially adverse to the business, assets (including intangible assets), liabilities, capitalization, financial condition or results of operations of such entity taken as a whole with its Subsidiaries, other than any Effect (A) primarily resulting from changes affecting the United States or world economy generally which changes do not disproportionately affect such entity taken as a whole with its Subsidiaries, (B) primarily resulting from changes affecting the industry in which such entity and its Subsidiaries operate generally which changes do not disproportionately affect such entity taken as a whole with its Subsidiaries, (C) primarily resulting

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from a change in such entity's stock price or the trading volume in such stock; provided that this clause (C) shall not exclude any underlying Effect which may have caused such change in stock price or trading volume, (D) primarily resulting from acts of terrorism or war which changes do not disproportionately affect such entity taken as a whole with its Subsidiaries, (E) primarily resulting from the announcement of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby or (F) primarily resulting from a failure to meet securities analysts' published revenue or earnings predictions for the Company for any period ending (or for which revenues or earnings are released) on or after the date of this Agreement; provided that this clause (F) shall not exclude the revenues or earnings of the Company themselves or any Effect which may have affected the Company's revenues or earnings; or (ii) materially impede the authority of such entity, or, in any case, Parent, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof and applicable Legal Requirements.

(d) For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Person" shall mean any individual, corporation (including any non-profit corporation), general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture, estate, trust, company (including any limited liability company or joint stock company), firm or other enterprise, association, organization, entity or Governmental Entity.

8.4 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other party, it being understood that all parties need not sign the same counterpart.

8.5 Entire Agreement; Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement and the documents and instruments and other agreements among the parties hereto as contemplated by or referred to herein, including the Company Disclosure Letter and the Voting Agreements and other Exhibits hereto (i) constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, it being understood that the Confidentiality Agreement shall continue in full force and effect until the Closing and shall survive any termination of this Agreement and (ii) are not intended to confer upon any other Person any rights or remedies hereunder, except as specifically provided, following the Effective Time, in Section 5.11.

8.6 Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof, becomes or is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect and the application of such provision to other Persons or circumstances will be interpreted so as reasonably to effect the intent of the parties hereto. The parties further agree to replace such void or unenforceable provision of this Agreement with a valid and enforceable provision that will achieve, to the greatest extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such void or unenforceable provision.

8.7 Other Remedies. Except as otherwise provided herein, any and all remedies herein expressly conferred upon a party will be deemed cumulative with and not exclusive of any other

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remedy conferred hereby, or by law or equity upon such party, and the exercise by a party of any one remedy will not preclude the exercise of any other remedy. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached.

8.8 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, regardless of the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the Delaware Court of Chancery and any state appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the Delaware Court of Chancery declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any state or federal court within the State of Delaware) in connection with any matter based upon or arising out of this Agreement or the matters contemplated herein, agrees that process may be served upon them in any manner authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware for such persons and waives and covenants not to assert or plead any objection which they might otherwise have to such jurisdiction, venue and such process.

8.9 Rules of Construction. The parties hereto agree that they have been represented by counsel during the negotiation and execution of this Agreement and, therefore, waive the application of any law, regulation, holding or rule of construction providing that ambiguities in an agreement or other document will be construed against the party drafting such agreement or document.

8.10 Assignment. No party may assign either this Agreement or any of its rights, interests, or obligations hereunder without the prior written approval of the other parties, except that Parent may assign its rights and delegate its obligations hereunder to its affiliates as long as Parent remains ultimately liable for all of Parent's obligations hereunder. Any purported assignment in violation of this Section 8.10 shall be void. Subject to the preceding sentence, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

8.11 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF PARENT, MERGER SUB AND THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE ACTIONS OF PARENT, MERGER SUB OR THE COMPANY IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE AND ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their duly authorized respective officers as of the date first written above.


SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.

By:		/S/ MARK CANEPA
Mark Canepa
Executive Vice President, Network Storage Group

STANFORD ACQUISITION CORPORATION

By:		/S/ BRIAN MARTIN
Brian Martin
President

STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

By:		/S/ PATRICK J. MARTIN
Patrick J. Martin
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer

****AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER****