Press Release

ENRON AND i2 ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE TO OFFER TRADEMATRIX™ SERVICES OVER ENRON INTELLIGENT NETWORK™

HOUSTON - Enron Broadband Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp., and i2 Technologies, Inc. announced today an alliance to improve the efficiency of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce network communications. i2 will use Enron’s ePowered™ Services to offer TradeMatrix™ solutions over Enron’s high-bandwidth network, taking advantage of the high quality of service (QOS), reliability and network control that the B2B market requires.

Customers of i2’s TradeMatrix will bypass the congestion of the Internet, experiencing faster performance for e-commerce applications. Using Enron’s network, i2’s customers can obtain the benefits of a private, high-bandwidth network at a much lower cost, and pay for the services on a usage basis.

"Enron is a great example of a corporation that has transformed itself into a strong e-business company,” said Sanjiv Sidhu, chairman and CEO of i2. “Enron has developed an overlay to the public Internet that will help solve the quality of service challenge for companies engaging in business-to-business e-commerce. Enron's network offering will bring value to TradeMatrix customers with more cost-effective and efficient network connectivity."

The Enron Intelligent Network’s (EIN) embedded software intelligence, called the Enron Broadband Operating System (BOS), provides an extremely high QOS. The Enron BOS includes the ability to make reservations for bandwidth usage in anticipation of application needs. Also, additional network capacity can be added in real-time as required by the applications. These features allow the EIN to differentiate service quality by type of application and will provide the users of TradeMatrix with a consistent level of service even in the event of heavy network traffic.

"Enron's intelligent network has been designed and built from the ground up to ensure the QOS and network control necessary for businesses to fully realize the e-commerce promise of the Internet. Our ability to ePower new high-bandwidth applications is the natural fulfillment of Enron's vision to accelerate online business transformation," said Joe Hirko, CEO, Enron Broadband Services.

Access to i2’s TradeMatrix is facilitated by Enron’s distribution partnerships with major Internet Service Providers and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers. Enron’s high bandwidth connections to these partners allow enterprise customers to easily connect to the EIN through a distribution partner, and in turn, to TradeMatrix services.

The companies have also agreed to cooperate on joint sales and marketing efforts, collaborate on intelligent network standards, and investigate other joint opportunities.

About the Enron Intelligent Network™

The Enron Intelligent Network (EIN) is based on a distributed server architecture, a pure Internet Protocol strategy, Enron's global fiber and satellite distribution, and the embedded software intelligence, called the Enron BOS, that sets it apart from other network providers. The EIN and Enron’s BOS enable a whole new breed of application services, called ePowered™ Services, which transport rich media and live, streaming video, faster than using the public Internet.

The Enron BOS allows real-time provisioning of bandwidth across multiple networks. It includes intelligent technologies that will provide a variety of features, such as forward reservation of bandwidth, real-time provisioning, dynamic content management and security. In addition, Enron’s BOS will make the Internet programmable because of the built-in interfaces between the Enron BOS and all the major physical elements in the network, such as routers and servers, and software elements, such as caching and reservation software.

About Enron Broadband Services

Enron Broadband Services, is a leading provider of high quality, broadband Internet content and applications. The company’s business model combines the power of the Enron Intelligent Network, Enron’s BOS, bandwidth trading and intermediation services, and high-bandwidth applications, to fundamentally improve the experiences and functionality of the Internet. Enron’s BOS allow application developers to dynamically provision bandwidth on demand for the end-to-end quality of service necessary to deliver broadband content. Enron has also created a market for bandwidth that will allow network providers to scale to meet the demands that increasingly complex applications require. A wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE), Enron Broadband Services can be found on the Web at www.enron.net.

About i2

i2 (NASDAQ: ITWO) is the leading global provider of intelligent eBusiness solutions. Founded in 1988, i2's vision is to add $50 billion of value for its customers by the year 2005. i2 is headquartered in Dallas, TX, has approximately 3,000 employees and maintains offices worldwide. For additional information, visit i2 at www.i2.com.

TradeMatrix is a comprehensive electronic business solution that enables companies to deploy business-to-business and business-to-consumer portals. TradeMatrix offers the broadest spectrum of solutions and hosted services available including procurement, commerce, fulfillment, customer care, retail, planning and product development enabling customers, partners, suppliers and service providers to conduct business in real-time. TradeMatrix services and marketplaces are powered by i2’s advanced optimization and execution capabilities for improved decision-making.i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies, Inc. TradeMatrix is a service mark of i2 Technologies, Inc.

About Enron

Enron is one of the world’s leading electricity, natural gas and communications companies. The company, which owns approximately $34 billion in energy and communications assets, produces electricity and natural gas, develops, constructs and operates energy facilities worldwide, delivers physical commodities and financial and risk management services to customers around the world, and is developing an intelligent network platform to facilitate online business. Enron’s Internet address is www.enron.com, and the stock is traded under the ticker symbol, “ENE.”

This press release includes forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although Enron believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its goals will be achieved. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements herein include political developments in foreign countries, the ability to penetrate new retail natural gas and electricity markets, including the energy outsource market in the United States and Europe, the timing and extent of changes in prices for crude oil, natural gas, electricity and interest rates, the timing and success of Enron’s efforts to develop international power, pipeline and other infrastructure projects, and conditions of the capital markets and equity markets during the periods covered by the forward looking statements.

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Claudia Johnson

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