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                                                                   EXHIBIT 4.17


THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS WARRANT HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER
EITHER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "1933 ACT"), OR APPLICABLE
STATE SECURITIES LAWS (THE "STATE ACTS"), AND SHALL NOT BE SOLD, ASSIGNED,
PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, DONATED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED (WHETHER OR NOT FOR
CONSIDERATION) BY THE HOLDER EXCEPT BY REGISTRATION OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION UPON THE ISSUANCE TO THE COMPANY OF A FAVORABLE OPINION OF
COUNSEL OR OTHER EVIDENCE REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY TO THE EFFECT
THAT ANY SUCH TRANSFER SHALL NOT BE IN VIOLATION OF THE 1933 ACT AND THE STATE
ACTS.


1,250,000 Shares of Common Stock


                                    WARRANT
                          To Purchase Common Stock of
                          World Commerce Online, Inc.


         1.       GRANT OF WARRANT. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT i2Technologies,
Inc., a Delaware corporation, or its registered assigns (the "Holder"), is
entitled to exercise this Warrant to purchase from World Commerce Online, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), up to an aggregate of 1,250,000 shares
of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (the "Common
Stock"), subject to adjustment determined in accordance with ARTICLE IV of the
Agreement (as defined below) all on the terms and conditions and pursuant to
the provisions hereinafter set forth. This Warrant is being granted pursuant to
the terms of that certain Warrant Purchase Agreement of even date herewith (the
"Agreement"), by and among the Company and the Holder, and the Company and the
Holder intend to be bound hereby and thereby. Any capitalized terms not defined
herein will have the meanings set forth in the Agreement. The Company
acknowledges that the payment of the purchase price of this Warrant by Holder
of $100.00 and the additional consideration set forth in the Agreement is fair
and full consideration for the rights granted to the Holder hereunder, since
the Company acknowledges that, due to restrictions on the exercisability of
this Warrant and other restrictions on the rights of the Holder contained
herein and in the Agreement, the value of this Warrant is contingent,
speculative and uncertain.

         2.       EXERCISE PRICE. The exercise price per share of Common Stock
shall be $7.00 (the "Exercise Price"). Such Exercise Price and the number of
shares of Common Stock into which this Warrant is exercisable are subject to
adjustment from time to time as provided in ARTICLE IV of the Agreement.


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         3.       EXERCISE. This Warrant may be exercised in whole or in part
at any time or from time to time after the Closing Date and on or until the
date that is the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date (the "Expiration Date"),
unless otherwise extended pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.

         In order to exercise this Warrant, in whole or in part, the Holder
hereof shall deliver to the Company at its principal office at 9677 Tradeport
Drive, Orlando, Florida, 32827, or at such other office as shall be designated
by the Company pursuant to the Agreement:

         (a)      written notice of the Holder's election to exercise this
Warrant, which notice shall specify the number of shares of Common Stock to be
purchased pursuant to such exercise;

         (b)      cash payable to the order of the Company; and

         (c)      this Warrant, properly endorsed.

Upon receipt thereof, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, and in any
event within ten (10) days thereafter, execute or cause to be executed and
deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing the aggregate
number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise. The stock
certificate or certificates so delivered shall be registered in the name of the
Holder, or such other name as shall be designated in said notice.

         This Warrant shall be deemed to have been exercised and such
certificate or certificates shall be deemed to have been issued, and the Holder
or any other person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have
become a Holder of record of such shares for all purposes, as of the date that
said notice, together with said payment and this Warrant, is received by the
Company as aforesaid. Subject to the terms of the Agreement, the Holder of this
Warrant shall not, by virtue of its ownership of this Warrant, be entitled to
any rights of a stockholder in the Company, either at law or in equity;
provided, however, the Holder shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have become
the Holder of record of such shares on the date on which this Warrant is
surrendered to the Company in the immediately preceding sentence. If the
exercise is for less than all of the shares of Common Stock issuable as
provided in the Warrant, the Company will issue a new Warrant of like tenor and
date for the balance of such shares issuable hereunder to the Holder. The
Holder of this Warrant, by its acceptance hereof, consents to and agrees to be
bound by and to comply with all of the provisions of this Warrant.

         4.       TAXES. The issuance of any Common Stock or other certificate
upon the exercise of this Warrant shall be made without charge to the
registered Holder hereof, or for any tax in respect of the issuance of such
certificate.

         5.       TRANSFER. Except as otherwise provided under the Agreement,
this Warrant and all options and rights hereunder are transferable, as to all
or any part of the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon its
exercise, by the Holder hereof in person or by its duly authorized attorney on
the books of the Company upon surrender of this Warrant at the principal
offices of the Company, together with the form of transfer authorization
attached hereto duly


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executed. The Company shall deem and treat the registered Holder of this
Warrant at any time as the absolute owner hereof for all purposes and shall not
be affected by any notice to the contrary. If this Warrant is transferred in
part, the Company shall at the time of surrender of this Warrant, issue to the
transferee a Warrant covering the number of shares of Common Stock transferred
and to the transferor a Warrant covering the number of shares not transferred.

         6.       CASH IN LIEU OF FRACTIONAL SHARES. The Company shall not be
required to issue fractional shares upon the exercise of this Warrant. If the
Holder of this Warrant would be entitled, upon the exercise of any rights
evidenced hereby, to receive a fractional interest in a share, the Company
shall pay such amount as indicated under Section 4.3(d) of the Agreement.

         7.       REGISTRATION RIGHTS. The Common Stock into which this Warrant
is exercisable is subject to registration rights as provided in Section 4.6 of
the Agreement.

         8.       RESERVATION OF SHARES. The Company will, at all times prior
to the Expiration Date, reserve and keep available such number of authorized
shares of its Common Stock, solely for the purpose of issue upon the exercise
of the rights represented by this Warrant as herein provided for, as may at any
time be issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant.

         9.       APPLICABLE LAW. THIS WARRANT SHALL BE INTERPRETED AND THE
RIGHTS OF THE PARTIES DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED
STATES APPLICABLE THERETO AND THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.

         10.      SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Warrant and the rights evidenced
hereby shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors and
assigns of the Holder hereof and shall be enforceable by any such Holder. In
the event this Warrant is sold, transferred or assigned, the transferor will
give written notice within fifteen (15) days following the sale, assignment, or
transfer to the Company and in such notice designate the name and address of
the transferee.

         11.      HEADINGS. Headings of the paragraphs in this Warrant are for
convenience and reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part
of this Warrant.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be duly
executed and issued.

         DATED as of April 29, 2000.

                                         WORLD COMMERCE ONLINE, INC.



                                         By: /s/ Mark Patten
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                                            Mark Patten, Chief Financial Officer


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                               SUBSCRIPTION FORM

                 (To be executed only upon exercise of Warrant)


         The undersigned registered owner of this Warrant irrevocably exercises
this Warrant for and purchases ________ shares of Common Stock of World
Commerce Online, Inc. purchasable with this Warrant, and herewith makes payment
therefor, all at the price and on the terms and conditions specified in this
Warrant and requests that certificates for the shares of Common Stock hereby
purchased (and any securities or other property issuable upon such exercise) be
issued in the name of and delivered to _______________________________________
whose address is ________________________________, and if such shares of Common
Stock shall not include all of the shares of Common Stock issuable as provided
in this Warrant, that a new Warrant of like tenor and date for the balance of
the shares of Common Stock issuable thereunder to be delivered to the
undersigned.

         DATED:________________, _____________



                                              By:
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                                ASSIGNMENT FORM


         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned registered owner of this Warrant
hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto the Assignee named below all of the
rights of the undersigned under this Warrant, with respect to the number of
shares of Common Stock set forth below:

      Name & Address of Assignee                        No. of Shares
                                                         Common Stock





and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint as Attorney ________________
to register such transfer on the books of _____________________________
maintained for the purpose, with full power of substitution in the premises.

         DATED:________________, _____________



                                              By:
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                                              Name:
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                                              Title:
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NOTICE:           The signature to this assignment must correspond with the
                  name as written upon the face of the within Warrant in every
                  particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change
                  whatever.


                           ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY ASSIGNEE

         The undersigned Assignee hereby acknowledges receipt of the Warrant
Purchase Agreement, and agrees to be bound by its terms.



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