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EXHIBIT 10.18

NEGATIVE PLEDGE AGREEMENT

This Negative Pledge Agreement is made as of October 18, 2002 by and between
EXE Technologies, Inc. (Borrower) and SILICON VALLEY BANK (Bank).

In connection with, among other documents, the loan and Security Agreement (the
Loan Documents) being concurrently executed herewith between Borrower and
Bank, Borrower agrees as follows:



|1. |  | Borrower shall not sell, transfer, assign, mortgage, pledge, lease, grant
a security interest in, or encumber (other than in favor of Bank,
Permitted Liens and otherwise permitted under the Loan Documents) any of
Borrowers intellectual property, including, without limitation, the
following:
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| | a. |  | Any and all copyright rights, copyright applications, copyright
registrations and like protections in each work or authorship and
derivative work thereof, whether published or unpublished and whether
or not the same also constitutes a trade secret, now or hereafter
existing, created, acquired or held;     
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| | b. |  | Any and all design rights which may be available to Borrower now or
hereafter existing, created, acquired or held;                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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| | c. |  | All patents, patent applications, trade secrets, inventions and
like protections, including without limitations, improvements,
divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues, extensions and
continuations-in-part of the same, including without limitation the
patents and patent applications;                   
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| | d. |  | Any trademark and servicemark rights, whether registered or not,
applications to register and registrations of the same and like
protections, and the entire goodwill of the business of Borrower
connected with and symbolized by such trademarks, including without
limitations;                                 
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| | e. |  | Any and all claims for damages by way of past, present and future
infringements of any of the rights included above, with the rights
included above, with the right, but not the obligation, to sue for and
collect such damages for said use or infringement of the intellectual
property rights identified above;
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| | f. |  | All licenses or other rights to use any of the Copyrights, Patents
or Trademarks, and all license fees and royalties arising from such use
to the extent permitted by such license or rights; and                                                                                                                  
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| | g. |  | All amendments, extensions, renewals and extensions, of any of the Copyrights, Trademarks or Patents; and                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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| | h. |  | All proceeds and products of the foregoing, including without
limitation all payments under insurance or any indemnity or warranty
payable in respect of any of the foregoing;                                                                                                                                     



|2. |  | It shall be an event of default under the Loan Documents between Borrower
and Bank if there is a breach of any term of this Negative Pledge
Agreement.
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|3. |  | Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the
same meaning as in the Loan Documents.
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BORROWER:

EXE Technologies, Inc.



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|By:
Name:
Title: |  | /s/ KEN VINESKen Vines
CFO

BANK:

SILICON VALLEY BANK



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|By:
Name:
Title: |  | /s/ ROBERT SORAKRobert Sorak
Sr. Relationship Manager