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EXHIBIT 10.17

                    First Amendment to Employment Agreement

     First Amendment to Employment Agreement, dated as of May 31, 2001 ("First
Amendment"), between Brent A. Straka (the "Executive") and Eagle Point Software
Corporation (the "Company").

     Whereas, the Executive and the Company have entered in an Employment
Agreement dated as of January 2, 2001 (the "Agreement") providing, among other
things, for the terms and conditions upon which the Company shall employ the
Executive; and

     Whereas, each of the Executive and the Company desire to amend and
supplement the Agreement in certain respects as described in this First
Amendment.

     Now, therefore, in consideration of the premises and the covenants and
agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties agree as follows:

     1.   Notwithstanding anything contained in the Agreement to the contrary,
if an event constituting Good Reason (as defined below) shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Executive shall be permitted to terminate the Agreement upon
ten business days' written notice to the Company and shall be entitled to
receive such payments and other benefits determined in accordance with Section
4(d) of the Agreement as opposed to Section 4(e) of the Agreement.

     2.   As used in this First Amendment, "Good Reason" means, without the
Executive's express written consent, the occurrence of any of the following
events:

(22) any of (i) the assignment to the Executive of any duties inconsistent in
  any material respect with the Executive's position(s), duties,
  responsibilities or status with the Company as contemplated by the Agreement,
  (ii) a change in the Executive's reporting responsibilities, titles or offices
  with the Company as contemplated by the Agreement or (iii) any removal or
  involuntary termination of the Executive from the Company otherwise than as
  expressly permitted by the Agreement;

(23) a reduction by the Company in the Executive's rate of annual base salary or
  the Executive's target total annual compensation;

(24) the establishment by the Company of performance goals and similar criteria
  as a condition to the receipt by the Executive of variable compensation that
  are less favorable to the Executive than those established for other
  executives of the Company;

(25) the failure of the Company to provide the Executive with benefits that are,
  in the aggregate, at least as favorable to him as are provided to him as of
  the date hereof;

(26) any requirement of the Company that the Executive be based anywhere other
  than at the Company's facility in Dubuque, Iowa;

(27) the failure of the Company to (i) permit the Executive to participate in
  the Company's employee benefit plans generally available to executives of the
  Company, (ii) permit the Executive to take time off for vacation or illness in
  accordance with the Company's policy for executives or (iii) provide to the
  Executive all other fringe benefits as are from time to time made generally
  available to executives of the Company; or

(28) the failure of the Company to comply with its obligations under the
  Agreement;

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Provided, however, that an isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent action taken
in good faith and which is remedied by the Company promptly after receipt of
notice thereof given by the Executive shall not constitute Good Reason.

     3.   Section 4(d)(ii) of the Agreement is amended by replacing the phrase
"at any time before January 1, 2002" with the phrase "at any time on or before
January 1, 2002".

     4.   Except as expressly modified hereby, the Agreement remains in full
force and effect. Upon the execution and delivery hereof, the Agreement shall
thereupon be deemed to be amended and supplemented as hereinabove set forth as
fully and with the same effect as if the amendments and supplements made hereby
were originally set forth in the Agreement, and this First Amendment and the
Agreement shall henceforth be read, taken and construed as one and the same
instrument, but such amendments and supplements shall not operate so as to
render invalid or improper any action heretofore taken under the Agreement.

     5.   This First Amendment may be executed in two counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original and both of which together shall
constitute one and the same instrument.

     In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have executed this First Amendment
as of the date first written above.

                                        EAGLE POINT SOFTWARE CORPORATION

                                        By:


                                         /s/ Thomas O. Miller
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                                        Thomas O. Miller
                                        Chairman of the Board


Brent A. Straka


/s/ Brent A. Straka
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Brent A. Straka

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