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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.8

                                MEDIBUY.COM, INC.

                          EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
             ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON DECEMBER 14, 1999
                APPROVED BY THE STOCKHOLDERS ON _________, ______
           ADJUSTED FOR _________ FOR ________ STOCK SPLIT ON ________
                        EFFECTIVE DATE DECEMBER 14, 1999

1.       PURPOSE.

         (a) The purpose of this Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan") is to
provide a means by which employees of MEDIBUY.COM, INC., a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), and its Affiliates, as defined in subparagraph 1(b), which are
designated as provided in subparagraph 2(b), may be given an opportunity to
purchase stock of the Company.

         (b) The word "Affiliate" as used in the Plan means any parent
corporation or subsidiary corporation of the Company, as those terms are defined
in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the "Code").

         (c) The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of
its employees, to secure and retain the services of new employees, and to
provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of
the Company.

         (d) The Company intends that the rights to purchase stock of the
Company granted under the Plan be considered options issued under an "employee
stock purchase plan" as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code.

2.       ADMINISTRATION.

         (a) The Plan shall be administered by the Board of Directors (the
"Board") of the Company unless and until the Board delegates administration to a
Committee, as provided in subparagraph 2(c). Whether or not the Board has
delegated administration, the Board shall have the final power to determine all
questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the administration of the
Plan.

         (b) The Board shall have the power, subject to, and within the
limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan:

               (i) To determine when and how rights to purchase stock of the
Company shall be granted and the provisions of each offering of such rights
(which need not be identical).

              (ii) To designate from time to time which Affiliates of the
Company shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.

             (iii) To construe and interpret the Plan and rights granted under
it, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its
administration. The Board, in the

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exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the
Plan, in a manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make
the Plan fully effective.

              (iv) To amend the Plan as provided in paragraph 13.

               (v) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts
as the Board deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the
Company and its Affiliates and to carry out the intent that the Plan be treated
as an "employee stock purchase plan" within the meaning of Section 423 of the
Code.

          (c) The Board may delegate administration of the Plan to a Committee
composed of one (1) or more members of the Board (the "Committee"). If
administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee shall have, in
connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed
by the Board, subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the
provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The
Board may abolish the Committee at any time and revest in the Board the
administration of the Plan.

          (d) Any interpretation of the Plan by the Board of any decision made
by it under the Plan shall be final and binding on all persons.

3.       SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN.

         (a) Subject to the provisions of paragraph 12 relating to adjustments
upon changes in stock, the stock that may be sold pursuant to rights granted
under the Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate Five Hundred Thousand (500,000)
shares of the Company's common stock (the "Common Stock") plus an annual
increase to be added on the day of each Annual Stockholders Meeting beginning
with the Annual Stockholders Meeting in 2001, equal to the lesser of (i) 200,000
shares or (ii) an amount determined by the Board. If any right granted under the
Plan shall for any reason terminate without having been exercised, the Common
Stock not purchased under such right shall again become available for the Plan.

         (b) The stock subject to the Plan may be unissued shares or reacquired
shares, bought on the market or otherwise.

4.       GRANT OF RIGHTS; OFFERING.

         (a) The Board or the Committee may from time to time grant or provide
for the grant of rights to purchase Common Stock of the Company under the Plan
to eligible employees (an "Offering") on a date or dates (the "Offering
Date(s)") selected by the Board or the Committee. Each Offering shall be in such
form and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Board or the Committee
shall deem appropriate, which shall comply with the requirements of Section
423(b)(5) of the Code that all employees granted rights to purchase stock under
the Plan shall have the same rights and privileges. The terms and conditions of
an Offering shall be incorporated by reference into the Plan and treated as part
of the Plan. The provisions of separate Offerings need not be identical, but
each Offering shall include (through incorporation of the provisions of this
Plan by reference in the document comprising the Offering or otherwise) the
period during which the Offering shall be effective, which period shall not
exceed twenty-

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seven (27) months  beginning  with the Offering  Date,  and the substance of the
provisions contained in paragraphs 5 through 8, inclusive.

         (b) If an employee has more than one (1) right outstanding under the
Plan, unless he or she otherwise indicates in agreements or notices delivered
hereunder, a right with a lower exercise price (or an earlier-granted right if
two (2) rights have identical exercise prices), will be exercised to the fullest
possible extent before a right with a higher exercise price (or a later-granted
right if two (2) rights have identical exercise prices) will be exercised.

5.       ELIGIBILITY.

         (a) Rights may be granted only to employees of the Company or, as the
Board or the Committee may designate as provided in subparagraph 2(b), to
employees of any Affiliate of the Company. Except as provided in subparagraph
5(b), an employee of the Company or any Affiliate shall not be eligible to be
granted rights under the Plan unless, on the Offering Date, such employee has
been in the employ of the Company or any Affiliate for such continuous period
preceding such grant as the Board or the Committee may require, but in no event
shall the required period of continuous employment be greater than two (2)
years. In addition, unless otherwise determined by the Board or the Committee
and set forth in the terms of the applicable Offering, no employee of the
Company or any Affiliate shall be eligible to be granted rights under the Plan
unless, on the Offering Date, such employee's customary employment with the
Company or such Affiliate is for at least twenty (20) hours per week and at
least five (5) months per calendar year.

         (b) The Board or the Committee may provide that each person who, during
the course of an Offering, first becomes an eligible employee of the Company or
designated Affiliate will, on a date or dates specified in the Offering which
coincides with the day on which such person becomes an eligible employee or
occurs thereafter, receive a right under that Offering, which right shall
thereafter be deemed to be a part of that Offering. Such right shall have the
same characteristics as any rights originally granted under that Offering, as
described herein, except that:

               (i) the date on which such right is granted shall be the
"Offering Date" of such right for all purposes, including determination of the
exercise price of such right;

              (ii) the period of the Offering with respect to such right shall
begin on its Offering Date and end coincident with the end of such Offering; and

             (iii) the Board or the Committee may provide that if such person
first becomes an eligible employee within a specified period of time before the
end of the Offering, he or she will not receive any right under that Offering.

         (c) No employee shall be eligible for the grant of any rights under the
Plan if, immediately after any such rights are granted, such employee owns stock
possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value
of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Affiliate. For purposes of this
subparagraph 5(c), the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code shall apply in
determining the stock ownership of any employee, and stock which such

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employee may purchase under all outstanding  rights and options shall be treated
as stock owned by such employee.

         (d) An eligible employee may be granted rights under the Plan only if
such rights, together with any other rights granted under "employee stock
purchase plans" of the Company and any Affiliates, as specified by Section
423(b)(8) of the Code, do not permit such employee's rights to purchase stock of
the Company or any Affiliate to accrue at a rate which exceeds twenty five
thousand dollars ($25,000) of fair market value of such stock (determined at the
time such rights are granted) for each calendar year in which such rights are
outstanding at any time.

         (e) Officers of the Company and any designated Affiliate shall be
eligible to participate in Offerings under the Plan; provided, however, that the
Board may provide in an Offering that certain employees who are highly
compensated employees within the meaning of Section 423(b)(4)(D) of the Code
shall not be eligible to participate.

6.       RIGHTS; PURCHASE PRICE.

         (a) On each Offering Date, each eligible employee, pursuant to an
Offering made under the Plan, shall be granted the right to purchase up to the
number of shares of Common Stock of the Company purchasable with a percentage
designated by the Board or the Committee not exceeding fifteen percent (15%) of
such employee's Earnings (as defined in subparagraph 7(a)) during the period
which begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board or the
Committee determines for a particular Offering) and ends on the date stated in
the Offering, which date shall be no later than the end of the Offering. The
Board or the Committee shall establish one (1) or more dates during an Offering
(the "Purchase Date(s)") on which rights granted under the Plan shall be
exercised and purchases of Common Stock carried out in accordance with such
Offering.

         (b) In connection with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board or
the Committee may specify a maximum number of shares that may be purchased by
any employee as well as a maximum aggregate number of shares that may be
purchased by all eligible employees pursuant to such Offering. In addition, in
connection with each Offering that contains more than one (1) Purchase Date, the
Board or the Committee may specify a maximum aggregate number of shares which
may be purchased by all eligible employees on any given Purchase Date under the
Offering. If the aggregate purchase of shares upon exercise of rights granted
under the Offering would exceed any such maximum aggregate number, the Board or
the Committee shall make a pro rata allocation of the shares available in as
nearly a uniform manner as shall be practicable and as it shall deem to be
equitable.

         (c) The purchase price of stock acquired pursuant to rights granted
under the Plan shall be not less than the lesser of:

                  (i) an amount equal to  eighty-five  percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Offering Date; or

                  (ii) an amount equal to eighty-five  percent (85%) of the fair
market value of the stock on the Purchase Date.

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7.       PARTICIPATION; WITHDRAWAL; TERMINATION.

(a) An eligible  employee may become a participant in the Plan pursuant to an
Offering by delivering an enrollment  agreement to the Company  within the time
specified in the Offering, in such form as the Company provides.  Each such
agreement shall  authorize  payroll  deductions of up to the maximum percentage
specified by the Board or the Committee of such  employee's  Earnings during the
Offering.  "Earnings"  is  defined  as an  employee's  regular salary  or wages
(including  amounts thereof  elected to be deferred by the employee,  that would
otherwise have been paid, under any arrangement established by the Company that
is intended to comply with  Section 125, Section  401(k),  Section  402(e)(3),
Section  402(h) or section  403(b) of the Code, and also including any deferrals
under a non-qualified  deferred compensation plan or arrangement established by
the  Company),  and also,  if determined  by the Board or the Committee and set
forth in the terms of the Offering, may include any or all of the following: (i)
overtime pay, (ii) commissions, (iii) bonuses, incentive pay, profit sharing and
other remuneration  paid directly to the  employee,  and/or (iv) other items of
remuneration not specifically  excluded pursuant to the Plan. Earnings shall
not include the cost of employee  benefits  paid for by the Company or an
Affiliate, education or tuition  reimbursements,  imputed  income  arising
under any group insurance or benefit program,  traveling  expenses,  business
and moving expense reimbursements, income received in connection with stock
options, contributions made by the Company or an Affiliate under any employee
benefit plan, and similar items  of   compensation,   as  determined  by  the
Board  or  the   Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing,  the Board or
Committee may modify the definition of  "Earnings"  with respect to one or more
Offerings as the Board or Committee determines  appropriate.  The payroll
deductions made for each participant shall be  credited  to an account  for such
participant  under the Plan and shall be deposited  with the  general  funds of
the  Company.  A  participant  may reduce (including  to  zero) or  increase
such  payroll deductions,  and an  eligible employee may begin such payroll
deductions,  after the beginning of any Offering only as provided for in the
Offering. A participant may make additional payments into his or her account
only if  specifically  provided for in the Offering and only if the  participant
has not had the  maximum  amount  withheld  during the Offering.

         (b) At any time during an Offering, a participant may terminate his or
her payroll deductions under the Plan and withdraw from the Offering by
delivering to the Company a notice of withdrawal in such form as the Company
provides. Such withdrawal may be elected at any time prior to the end of the
Offering except as provided by the Board or the Committee in the Offering. Upon
such withdrawal from the Offering by a participant, the Company shall distribute
to such participant all of his or her accumulated payroll deductions (reduced to
the extent, if any, such deductions have been used to acquire stock for the
participant) under the Offering, without interest, and such participant's
interest in that Offering shall be automatically terminated. A participant's
withdrawal from an Offering will have no effect upon such participant's
eligibility to participate in any other Offerings under the Plan but such
participant will be required to deliver a new enrollment agreement in order to
participate in subsequent Offerings under the Plan.

         (c) Rights granted pursuant to any Offering under the Plan shall
terminate immediately upon cessation of any participating employee's employment
with the Company and any designated Affiliate, for any reason, and the Company
shall distribute to such terminated

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employee  all of  his or her  accumulated  payroll  deductions  (reduced  to the
extent,  if any,  such  deductions  have  been  used to  acquire  stock  for the
terminated employee), under the Offering, without interest.

         (d) Rights granted under the Plan shall not be transferable by a
participant other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, or by a
beneficiary designation as provided in paragraph 14, and during a participant's
lifetime, shall be exercisable only by such participant.

8.       EXERCISE.

         (a) On each Purchase Date specified therefor in the relevant Offering,
each participant's accumulated payroll deductions and other additional payments
specifically provided for in the Offering (without any increase for interest)
will be applied to the purchase of whole shares of stock of the Company, up to
the maximum number of shares permitted pursuant to the terms of the Plan and the
applicable Offering, at the purchase price specified in the Offering. No
fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of rights granted under the
Plan. The amount, if any, of accumulated payroll deductions remaining in each
participant's account after the purchase of shares which is less than the amount
required to purchase one share of Common Stock on the final Purchase Date of an
Offering shall be held in each such participant's account for the purchase of
shares under the next Offering under the Plan, unless such participant withdraws
from such next Offering, as provided in subparagraph 7(b), or is no longer
eligible to be granted rights under the Plan, as provided in paragraph 5, in
which case such amount shall be distributed to the participant after such final
Purchase Date, without interest. The amount, if any, of accumulated payroll
deductions remaining in any participant's account after the purchase of shares
which is equal to the amount required to purchase one or more whole shares of
Common Stock on the final Purchase Date of an Offering shall be distributed in
full to the participant after such Purchase Date, without interest.

         (b) No rights granted under the Plan may be exercised to any extent
unless the shares to be issued upon such exercise under the Plan (including
rights granted thereunder) are covered by an effective registration statement
pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and
the Plan is in material compliance with all applicable state, foreign and other
securities and other laws applicable to the Plan. If on a Purchase Date in any
Offering hereunder the Plan is not so registered or in such compliance, no
rights granted under the Plan or any Offering shall be exercised on such
Purchase Date, and the Purchase Date shall be delayed until the Plan is subject
to such an effective registration statement and such compliance, except that the
Purchase Date shall not be delayed more than twelve (12) months and the Purchase
Date shall in no event be more than twenty-seven (27) months from the Offering
Date. If on the Purchase Date of any Offering hereunder, as delayed to the
maximum extent permissible, the Plan is not registered and in such compliance,
no rights granted under the Plan or any Offering shall be exercised and all
payroll deductions accumulated during the Offering (reduced to the extent, if
any, such deductions have been used to acquire stock) shall be distributed to
the participants, without interest.

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9.       COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

         (a) During the terms of the rights granted under the Plan, the Company
shall keep available at all times the number of shares of Common Stock required
to satisfy such rights.

         (b) The Company shall seek to obtain from each federal, state, foreign
or other regulatory commission or agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such
authority as may be required to issue and sell shares of stock upon exercise of
the rights granted under the Plan. If, after reasonable efforts, the Company is
unable to obtain from any such regulatory commission or agency the authority
which counsel for the Company deems necessary for the lawful issuance and sale
of stock under the Plan, the Company shall be relieved from any liability for
failure to issue and sell stock upon exercise of such rights unless and until
such authority is obtained.

10.      USE OF PROCEEDS FROM STOCK.

         Proceeds from the sale of stock pursuant to rights granted under the
Plan shall constitute general funds of the Company.

11.      RIGHTS AS A STOCKHOLDER.

         A participant shall not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any
of the rights of a holder with respect to, any shares subject to rights granted
under the Plan unless and until the participant's shareholdings acquired upon
exercise of rights under the Plan are recorded in the books of the Company (or
its transfer agent).

12.      ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN STOCK.

         (a) If any change is made in the stock subject to the Plan, or subject
to any rights granted under the Plan (through merger, consolidation,
reorganization, recapitalization, stock dividend, dividend in property other
than cash, stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of
shares, change in corporate structure or other transaction not involving the
receipt of consideration by the Company), the Plan and outstanding rights will
be appropriately adjusted in the class(es) and maximum number of shares subject
to the Plan and the class(es) and number of shares and price per share of stock
subject to outstanding rights. Such adjustments shall be made by the Board or
the Committee, the determination of which shall be final, binding and
conclusive. (The conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall
not be treated as a "transaction not involving the receipt of consideration by
the Company.")

         (b) In the event of: (1) a dissolution or liquidation of the Company;
(2) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; (3) a
merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving corporation;
(4) a reverse merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation but the
shares of the Company's Common Stock outstanding immediately preceding the
merger are converted by virtue of the merger into other property, whether in the
form of securities, cash or otherwise; (5) the acquisition by any person, entity
or group within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or any comparable successor
provisions (excluding any employee benefit plan, or related trust, sponsored or
maintained by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company) of the beneficial
ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange

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Act, or comparable  successor rule) of securities of the Company representing at
least fifty percent (50%) of the combined  voting power  entitled to vote in the
election  of  directors;  or (6)  the  individuals  who,  as of the  date of
the adoption of this Plan, are members of the Board (the "Incumbent  Board"; (if
the election,  or nomination  for election by the Company's  stockholders,  of a
new director was approved by a vote of at least fifty  percent  (50%) of the
members of the Board then comprising the Incumbent  Board,  such new director
shall upon his or her election be considered a member of the Incumbent Board)
cease for any reason to constitute  at least fifty percent (50%) of the Board;
then the Board in its sole  discretion  may take any  action or  arrange  for
the taking of any action among the  following:  (i) any  surviving or  acquiring
corporation  may assume outstanding rights or substitute similar rights for
those under the Plan, (ii)  such  rights  may  continue  in  full  force  and
effect,  or  (iii)  all participants'  accumulated  payroll  deductions  may be
used to purchase  Common Stock  immediately  prior to or within a reasonable
period of time following the transaction  described  above and the
participants'  rights  under the  ongoing Offering terminated.

13.      AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN OR OFFERINGS.

         (a) The Board at any time, and from time to time, may amend the Plan or
the terms of one or more Offerings. However, except as provided in paragraph 12
relating to adjustments upon changes in stock, no amendment shall be effective
unless approved by the stockholders of the Company within twelve (12) months
before or after the adoption of the amendment, where the amendment will:

                  (i) Increase the number of shares reserved for rights under
the Plan;

                  (ii) Modify the provisions as to eligibility for participation
in the Plan or an Offering (to the extent such modification requires stockholder
approval in order for the Plan to obtain employee stock purchase plan treatment
under Section 423 of the Code or to comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3
promulgated under the Exchange Act, or any comparable successor rule ("Rule
16b-3"); or

                  (iii) Modify the Plan or an Offering in any other way if such
modification requires stockholder approval in order for the Plan to obtain
employee stock purchase plan treatment under Section 423 of the Code or to
comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3.

It is expressly contemplated that the Board may amend the Plan or an Offering in
any respect the Board deems necessary or advisable to provide eligible employees
with the maximum benefits provided or to be provided under the provisions of the
Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder relating to employee stock
purchase plans and/or to bring the Plan and/or rights granted under an Offering
into compliance therewith.

         (b) The Board may, in its sole discretion, submit any amendment to the
Plan or an Offering for stockholder approval.

         (c) Rights and obligations under any rights granted before amendment of
the Plan or Offering shall not be impaired by any amendment of the Plan, except
with the consent of the person to whom such rights were granted, or except as
necessary to comply with any laws or

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governmental regulations,  or except as necessary to ensure that the Plan and/or
rights granted under an Offering comply with the  requirements of Section 423 of
the Code.

14.      DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY.

         (a) A participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who
is to receive any shares and cash, if applicable, from the participant's account
under the Plan in the event of such participant's death subsequent to the end of
an Offering but prior to delivery to the participant of such shares and cash. In
addition, a participant may file a written designation of a beneficiary who is
to receive any cash from the participant's account under the Plan in the event
of such participant's death during an Offering.

         (b) Such designation of beneficiary may be changed by the participant
at any time by written notice in the form prescribed by the Company. In the
event of the death of a participant and in the absence of a beneficiary validly
designated under the Plan who is living (or if an entity, is otherwise in
existence) at the time of such participant's death, the Company shall deliver
such shares and/or cash to the executor or administrator of the estate of the
participant, or if no such executor or administrator has been appointed (to the
knowledge of the Company), the Company, in its sole discretion, may deliver such
shares and/or cash to the spouse or to any one (1) or more dependents or
relatives of the participant, or if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to
the Company, then to such other person as the Company may determine.

15.      TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE PLAN.

         (a) The Board in its discretion, may suspend or terminate the Plan at
any time. The Plan shall automatically terminate if all the shares subject to
the Plan pursuant to subparagraph 3(a) are issued. No rights may be granted
under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated.

         (b) Rights and obligations under any rights granted while the Plan is
in effect shall not be impaired by suspension or termination of the Plan, except
as expressly provided in the Plan or with the consent of the person to whom such
rights were granted, or except as necessary to comply with any laws or
governmental regulation, or except as necessary to ensure that the Plan and/or
rights granted under an Offering comply with the requirements of Section 423 of
the Code.

16.      EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN.

         The Plan shall become effective on the same day on which the Company's
registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to the initial
public offering of shares of the Company's Common Stock becomes effective (the
"Effective Date"), but no rights granted under the Plan shall be exercised
unless and until the Plan had been approved by the stockholders of the Company
within twelve (12) months before or after the date the Plan is adopted by the
Board or the Committee, which date may be prior to the Effective Date.

17.      CHOICE OF LAW.

         All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation
of this Plan shall be governed by the law of the State of California, without
regard to such state's conflict of laws rules.

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.9

                                MEDIBUY.COM, INC.

                      EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN OFFERING

              ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON DECEMBER 14, 1999

1.       GRANT; OFFERING DATE.

         (a) The Board of Directors (the "Board") of MEDIBUY.COM, INC. (the
"Company"), pursuant to the Company's Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan"),
hereby authorizes the grant of rights to purchase shares of the common stock of
the Company ("Common Stock") to all Eligible Employees (an "Offering"). The
first Offering shall begin on the effective date of the initial public offering
of the Company's Common Stock and end on January 31, 2002 (the "Initial
Offering"). Thereafter, an Offering shall begin on February 1, 2002 and on each
February 1 every second year thereafter, and each such offering shall end on the
day prior to the second anniversary of its Offering Date. The first day of an
Offering is that Offering's "Offering Date."

         (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) if any Offering Date falls on a
day that is not a Trading Day (as defined herein), then such Offering Date shall
instead fall on the next subsequent Trading Day and (ii) if any Purchase Date
(as defined in Section 6, below) Date falls on a day that is not a Trading Day,
then such Purchase Date shall instead fall on the immediately preceding Trading
Day. "Trading Day" shall mean any day the exchange(s) or market(s) on which the
Common Stock is listed, whether it be any established stock exchange, The Nasdaq
National Market, The Nasdaq SmallCap Market or otherwise, is open for trading.

         (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in the event that the
Fair Market Value (as defined herein) of a share of Common Stock on any Purchase
Date during an Offering is less than the Fair Market Value of a share of Common
Stock on the Offering Date of such Offering, then following the purchase of
Common Stock on such Purchase Date: (i) the Offering shall terminate and (ii)
all participants in the just-terminated Offering shall automatically be enrolled
in a new Offering that shall commence on the next Trading Day following the
Purchase Date and end on the day prior to the second anniversary of such new
offering's Offering Date. Except as provided in paragraph 4, "Fair Market Value"
shall mean the closing sales price for the Common Stock (or the closing bid
price, if no sales were reported) as quoted on any established stock exchange or
traded on the Nasdaq National Market or the Nasdaq SmallCap Market and as
reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Board deems
reliable.

         (d) Prior to the commencement of any Offering, the Board (or the
Committee described in subparagraph 2(c) of the Plan, if any) may change any or
all terms of such Offering and any subsequent Offerings. The granting of rights
pursuant to each Offering hereunder shall occur on each respective Offering Date
unless, prior to such date (a) the Board (or the Committee) determines that such
Offering shall not occur, or (b) no shares remain available for issuance under
the Plan in connection with the Offering.

         (e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of an Offering, if the terms
of an Offering as previously established by the Board would, as a result of a
change to applicable accounting standards, as a result of obtaining shareholder
approval during such Offering for shares of

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Common Stock that would be issued under such Offering (but for the provisions
of this Section 1(e)), or otherwise,  generate a charge to earnings,  such
Offering shall  terminate  effective  as of the  earlier of (1) the day prior to
the date such change of accounting  standards would otherwise first apply to the
Offering or (2) the day prior to the date  upon  which the  maximum  aggregate
number of shares of Common Stock available to be purchased by all Eligible
Employees under such Offering  (excluding any  additional  shares of Common
Stock made available for  issuance  under the Plan by  approval  of the
shareholders  of the Company during the Offering) exceeds the aggregate number
of whole shares purchasable by all  Eligible  Employees  based upon the
aggregate of such  Employees'  payroll deductions  accumulated  pursuant to such
Offering (the  "Offering  Termination Date"),  and such Offering  Termination
Date shall be the final Purchase Date of such  Offering.  A subsequent  Offering
shall commence on such date and on such terms as shall be provided by the Board
of Directors of the Company.

2.       ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES.

         (a) All employees of the Company and each of its Affiliates (as defined
in the Plan) incorporated in the United States, shall be granted rights to
purchase Common Stock under each Offering on the Offering Date of such Offering,
provided that each such employee otherwise meets the employment requirements of
subparagraph 5(a) of the Plan and has been continuously employed by the Company
or an Affiliate for at least one (1) month (an "Eligible Employee") and that
each Eligible Employee may only contribute to one Offering at any given point in
time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following employees shall not be
Eligible Employees or be granted rights under an Offering: (i) part-time or
seasonal employees whose customary employment is less than twenty (20) hours per
week or five (5) months per calendar year and (ii) 5% stockholders (including
ownership through unexercised and/or unvested stock options) described in
subparagraph 5(c) of the Plan.

         (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, each person who first becomes an
Eligible Employee during any Offering and at least six (6) months prior to the
final Purchase Date (as defined in paragraph 6 hereof) of the Offering will, on
the next February 1 or August 1 during that Offering following the date that
person first becomes an Eligible Employee, receive a right under such Offering,
which right shall thereafter be deemed to be a part of the Offering. Such right
shall have the same characteristics as any rights originally granted under the
Offering except that:

                  (i) the date on which such right is granted shall be the
"Offering Date" of such right for all purposes, including determination of the
exercise price of such right; and

                  (ii) the Offering for such right shall begin on its Offering
Date and end coincident with the end of the ongoing Offering.

3.       RIGHTS.

         (a) Subject to the limitations contained herein and in the Plan, on
each Offering Date each Eligible Employee shall be granted the right to purchase
the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable with up to fifteen percent
(15%) of such employee's Earnings paid during the period of such Offering
beginning after such Eligible Employee first commences participation;

                                       2.
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provided, however, that no employee may purchase Common Stock on a particular
Purchase Date that would result in more than fifteen percent (15%) of such
employee's Earnings in the period from the Offering Date to such Purchase Date
having been applied to purchase shares under all ongoing Offerings under the
Plan and all other plans of the Company intended to qualify as "employee stock
purchase plans" under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the "Code"). For this Offering, "Earnings" means the base salary paid
to an employee (including all amounts elected to be deferred by the employee,
that would otherwise have been paid, under any cash or deferred arrangement
established by the Company) and overtime pay, but excludes commissions, bonuses,
other remuneration paid directly to the employee, profit sharing, the cost of
employee benefits paid for by the Company, education or tuition reimbursements,
imputed income arising under any Company group insurance or benefit program,
traveling expenses, business and moving expense reimbursements, income received
in connection with stock options, contributions made by the Company under any
employee benefit plan, and similar items of compensation.

         (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock an Eligible Employee may purchase on any Purchase Date in an
Offering shall be such number of shares as has a Fair Market Value (determined
as of the Offering Date for such Offering) equal to (x) $25,000 multiplied by
the number of calendar years in which the right under such Offering has been
outstanding at any time, minus (y) the Fair Market Value of any other shares of
Common Stock (determined as of the relevant Offering Date with respect to such
shares) which, for purposes of the limitation of Section 423(b)(8) of the Code,
are attributed to any of such calendar years in which the right is outstanding.
The amount in clause (y) of the previous sentence shall be determined in
accordance with regulations applicable under Section 423(b)(8) of the Code based
on (i) the number of shares previously purchased with respect to such calendar
years pursuant to such Offering or any other Offering under the Plan, or
pursuant to any other Company plans intended to qualify as "employee stock
purchase plans" under Section 423 of the Code, and (ii) the number of shares
subject to other rights outstanding on the Offering Date for such Offering
pursuant to the Plan or any other such Company plan.

         (c) The maximum aggregate number of shares available to be purchased by
all Eligible Employees under an Offering shall be the number of shares remaining
available under the Plan on the Offering Date. If the aggregate purchase of
shares of Common Stock upon exercise of rights granted under the Offering would
exceed the maximum aggregate number of shares available, the Board shall make a
pro rata allocation of the shares available in a uniform and equitable manner.

4.       PURCHASE PRICE.

         The purchase price of the Common Stock under the Offering shall be the
lesser of: (i) eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair Market Value of the Common
Stock on the Offering Date or (ii) or eighty-five percent (85%) of the Fair
Market Value of the Common Stock on the Purchase Date, in each case rounded up
to the nearest whole cent per share. For the Initial Offering, the "Fair Market
Value" of the Common Stock at the time when the Offering commences shall be the
price per share at which shares of Common Stock are first sold to the public in
the Company's initial public offering as specified in the final prospectus with
respect to that public offering.

                                       3.
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5.       PARTICIPATION.

         (a) An Eligible Employee may elect to participate in an Offering at the
beginning of the Offering or at such later date specified in 2(b). An Eligible
Employee shall become a participant in an Offering by delivering an enrollment
form authorizing payroll deductions. Such deductions must be either a fixed
dollar amount per pay period, up to a maximum dollar amount which is less than
or equal to fifteen percent (15%) of Earnings, or in whole percentages of
Earnings, with a minimum percentage of one percent (1%) and a maximum percentage
of fifteen percent (15%). A participant may not make additional payments into
his or her account. The agreement shall be made on such enrollment form as the
Company provides, and must be delivered to the Company prior to the date
participation is to be effective, unless a later time for filing the enrollment
form is set by the Company for all Eligible Employees with respect to a given
Offering. For the Initial Offering, the time for filing an enrollment form and
commencing participation for individuals who are Eligible Employees on the
Offering Date for the Initial Offering shall be determined by the Company and
communicated to such Eligible Employees.

         (b) A participant may decrease his or her participation level during
the course of a six (6) month purchase interval one (1) time, and only by
delivering notice to the Company at least ten (10) days in advance of the
Purchase Date in such form as the Company prescribes; provided that a
participant may (i) reduce his or her deductions to zero percent (0%) upon ten
(10) days' prior notice, or within such shorter period as determined by the
Board and communicated to the participants, by delivering a notice in such form
as the Company provides, (ii) may increase or decrease his or her participation
level at any time to become effective on the day following the next subsequent
Purchase Date, or (iii) may withdraw from an Offering and receive his or her
accumulated payroll deductions from the Offering (reduced to the extent, if any,
such deductions have been used to acquire Common Stock for the participant on
any prior Purchase Dates) without interest, at any time prior to the end of the
Offering, excluding only each ten (10) day period immediately preceding a
Purchase Date, by delivering a withdrawal notice to the Company in such form as
the Company provides. A participant who has withdrawn from an Offering shall not
again participate in such Offering, but may participate in subsequent Offerings
under the Plan in accordance with the terms thereof.

6.       PURCHASES.

         Subject to the limitations contained herein, on each Purchase Date,
each participant's accumulated payroll deductions (without any increase for
interest) shall be applied to the purchase of whole shares of Common Stock, up
to the maximum number of shares permitted under the Plan and the Offering.
"Purchase Date" shall be defined as each July 31 and January 31. The first
Purchase Date under the Initial Offering shall be July 31, 2000. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if any Purchase Date falls on a day that is not a Trading Day,
then such Purchase Date shall instead fall on the immediately preceding Trading
Day.

7.       NOTICES AND AGREEMENTS.

         Any notices or agreements provided for in an Offering or the Plan shall
be given in writing, in a form provided by the Company, and unless specifically
provided for in the Plan or this Offering, shall be deemed effectively given
upon receipt or, in the case of notices and

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agreements  delivered by the Company,  five (5) days after deposit in the United
States mail, postage prepaid.

8.       EXERCISE CONTINGENT ON STOCKHOLDER APPROVAL.

         The rights granted under an Offering are subject to the approval of the
Plan by the stockholders as required for the Plan to obtain treatment as a
tax-qualified employee stock purchase plan under Section 423 of the Code and to
comply with the requirements of an available exemption from potential liability
under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act") set forth in Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

9.       OFFERING SUBJECT TO PLAN.

         Each Offering is subject to all the provisions of the Plan, and its
provisions are hereby made a part of the Offering, and is further subject to all
interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time
be promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan. In the event of any conflict
between the provisions of an Offering and those of the Plan (including
interpretations, amendments, rules and regulations which may from time to time
be promulgated and adopted pursuant to the Plan), the provisions of the Plan
shall control.

                                       5.

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