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EXHIBIT 10.20

17 December 2001

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

Mr John Kirby
17 Abell Gardens
Pinkneys Green
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 6PS

Dear John

VARIATION TO YOUR SERVICE AGREEMENT

Pursuant to your Service Agreement dated 1 December 2000 and discussions with
Cronos, I understand it has been agreed that clause 2.2 of your Service
Agreement shall be deleted and the following new clause 2.2 inserted in its
place:

         "The appointment commenced on 1 April 1999 and shall continue (subject
         to earlier termination as provided in this Agreement) until 30 November
         2003 and thereafter shall continue until terminated by either party
         giving to the other not less than 3 months written notice".

I should be grateful if you would sign and return the attached copy of this
letter confirming your acceptance to the above variation to your Service
Agreement.

Yours sincerely

/s/ PETER J YOUNGER

Peter J Younger

Director
Cronos Containers Limited

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I confirm that I accept the above variation to my Service Agreement dated 17
December 2001

Signed   /s/ JOHN C KIRBY

         John C Kirby, Director

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EXHIBIT 10.21

18 December 2001

PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

Mr Nico Sciacovelli
Via Niccolini
N 75/3, 16166
Genova
Italy

Dear Nico

VARIATION TO YOUR SERVICE AGREEMENT

Pursuant to your Service Agreement dated 1 December 1999 and discussions with
Cronos, I understand it has been agreed that clause 1.2.1 of your Service
Agreement shall be deleted and the following new clause 1.2.1 inserted in its
place:

         "The appointment commenced on 1 December 1999 and shall continue
         (subject to earlier termination as provided in this Agreement) until 30
         November 2003 and thereafter shall continue until terminated by either
         party giving to the other not less than 3 months written notice".

I should be grateful if you would sign and return the attached copy of this
letter confirming your acceptance to the above variation to your Service
Agreement.

Yours sincerely

/s/ PETER J YOUNGER

Peter J Younger

Director
Cronos Containers S.r.L

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I confirm that I accept the above variation to my Service Agreement.

Signed   /s/ NICO SCIACOVELLI

         NICO SCIACOVELLI<PAGE>
                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.30

                               DATED OCTOBER 2001

                                  QSP GROUP PLC

                              QSP SOLUTIONS LIMITED

                       WALKER FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

                                       AND

                               PETER GEORGE MILLS

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                                    AGREEMENT
                                       FOR
        THE SALE OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE AMP CONTRACT
                               (AS DEFINED HEREIN)

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                                 Middleton Potts
                                 3 Cloth Street
                                    Barbican
                                 London EC1A 7NP

                                Ref: R/3712-1/cjc
                               Tel: 020 7600 2333
                               Fax: 020 7600 0108

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THIS AGREEMENT is made the ___ day of October 2001 BETWEEN

1.      QSP GROUP PLC (registered in England under company number 2359749) whose
        registered office is at Talipot House, 5th Avenue Business Park, Team
        Valley, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE11 0XA ("Group") acting by one of
        its joint administrative receivers, PETER GEORGE MILLS, of 1 Riding
        House Street, London W1A 3AS ("the Receiver");

2.      QSP SOLUTIONS LIMITED (registered in England under company number
        1535112) whose registered office is at 1, Talipot House, 5th Avenue
        Business Park, Team Valley, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE11 OXA
        ("Solutions", and, together with Group, "the Vendors") acting by one of
        its joint administrative receivers, PETER GEORGE MILLS, of 1 Riding
        House Street, London W1A 3AS ("the Receiver");

3.      WALKER FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED, a company registered in England
        under registered number 01848767, whose registered office is at The
        Gatehouse, Gatehouse Way, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP19 3DL ("the
        Purchaser"); and

4.      THE RECEIVER.

WHEREAS:

(A)     Group was incorporated in England on 10 March 1989 as a public limited
        company.

(B)     Solutions was incorporated in England on 16 December 1980 as a private
        limited company.

(C)     Group is the holder of the whole of the issued share capital of
        Solutions.

(D)     the Receiver was appointed joint Administrative Receiver of the Vendors
        on 17 October 2001 pursuant to the terms of the Charges.

(E)     the Vendors have agreed to sell and the Purchaser has agreed to purchase
        whatever right, title and interest the Vendors may have in the
        Intellectual Property Rights.

(F)     the Purchaser is entering into this Agreement having made such
        inspection, investigation and evaluation of the Intellectual Property
        Rights as it thinks fit, on the basis of a purchase by the Purchaser of
        the Intellectual Property Rights "as is" and in full knowledge and
        acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and (in
        particular but without limitation) of the fact that the price to be paid
        for the Intellectual Property Rights has been calculated on the
        acknowledged basis that the risk of good title to all or any of the
        Intellectual Property Rights not

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        passing to the purchaser and the Intellectual Property Rights not being
        suitable for the Purchaser's purpose or any other purpose is the
        Purchaser's alone and that, since the Purchaser is contracting with a
        company in receivership, the terms and conditions of this Agreement are
        reasonable.

NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH as follows:

1.      INTERPRETATION

1.1     In this Agreement (including in the Recitals and in the Schedule) except
        where a different interpretation is clear from or necessary in the
        context) the following expressions shall have the following meanings:

        Accounts Receivable              means all book debts, notes receivable
                                         and other rights to payment arising
                                         from the operation of the business
                                         carried on by Solutions prior to the
                                         Completion Date including, for the
                                         avoidance of doubt, all monies due
                                         under the AMP Contract which the Vendor
                                         is to retain in accordance with Clause
                                         7.5 hereof and any rights to payment
                                         arising under any of the ASP Contracts
                                         (including the right to receive payment
                                         for goods despatched or delivered and
                                         services rendered before the Completion
                                         Date but not invoiced before such date)
                                         and includes all forms of indebtedness,
                                         counterclaims, rights of set-off and
                                         other obligations, whether or not
                                         caught by the fixed charges held by the
                                         debenture holder which has appointed
                                         the Receiver;

        AMP                              means AMP (UK) Services Limited, a
                                         company incorporated in England under
                                         company number 3725038 whose registered
                                         office is at The Pearl Centre, Lynch
                                         Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6FY;

        AMP                              Contract means the agreement for
                                         consultancy services, software licence
                                         and software support dated February
                                         2000 between AMP and Solutions, as
                                         subsequently amended;

        ASP Contracts                    means those contracts (as they subsist
                                         at the Completion Date) of the Vendors

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                                         pursuant to which the Vendors host
                                         application services to their
                                         customers;

        Asia Pacific Region              means Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the
                                         Asian Pacific Islands, Indonesia, Hong
                                         Kong, Taiwan, The Peoples' Republic of
                                         China, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore,
                                         North and South Korea and Vietnam;

        Bank                             means Hamburgische Landesbank, London
                                         Branch, Moorgate Hall, 155 Moorgate
                                         London, EC2M 6UJ;

        Business Day                     means any day (other than a Saturday)
                                         on which clearing banks in the City of
                                         London are open to customers and
                                         clients for business;

        Charges                          means together the Solutions Charge and
                                         the QSP Charge;

        Completion                       means completion of the sale and
                                         purchase of the Intellectual Property
                                         Rights and the AMP Contract in
                                         accordance with the terms of clause 3;

        Completion Date                  means October 2001;

        Current Release                  means the release of the Programs and
                                         Program Documentation current as at the
                                         Completion Date (and, for the avoidance
                                         of doubt, excluding any New Releases);

        Current Version                  means the version of the Programs and
                                         Program Documentation current as at the
                                         Completion Date (and, for the avoidance
                                         of doubt, excluding any New Version);

        Intellectual Property Rights     means all of the rights of the Vendors
                                         to the copyrights, patents, trade
                                         marks, designs, know-how and other
                                         similar rights (whether or not
                                         registered) and any application for or
                                         right to apply for the protection or
                                         registration of such rights as at
                                         Completion, wherever in the world such
                                         rights subsist, in the Programs and the
                                         Program

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                                         Documentation;

        New Release                      means any new release of any Program or
                                         Program Documentation that contains
                                         minor changes made available at any
                                         time after the Completion Date;

        New Version                      means any update of any Program or
                                         Program Documentation that contains
                                         error fixes and/or functional changes
                                         made available at any time after the
                                         Completion Date;

        Programs                         means the software programs including
                                         without limitation those specified in
                                         the Schedule hereto in object code,
                                         source code or otherwise;

        Program Documentation            means the instruction manuals, user
                                         guides and other information (including
                                         the source code to the Programs) in
                                         printed and/or machine readable form in
                                         relation to the Programs including,
                                         without limitation, the documentation
                                         specified in the Schedule hereto;

        Purchaser's Solicitors           means Baker & McKenzie of 100 New
                                         Bridge Street, London EC4V 6JA;

        QSP Charge                       means the Debenture (Fixed and Floating
                                         Charge) dated 31 December 1998 between
                                         Group (1) and the Bank (2);

        Solutions Charge                 means the Debenture (Fixed and Floating
                                         Charge) dated 31 December 1998 between
                                         Solutions (1) and the Bank (2);

        Vendors' Solicitors              means Middleton Potts of 3 Cloth
                                         Street, London, EC1A 7NP.

1.2     In this Agreement (including in the Recitals and the Schedules) unless
        the context otherwise requires:

1.2.1          all references to statutory provisions or enactments shall
               include references to any amendment, modification or re-enactment
               of any such provision or enactment (whether before or after the
               date of this

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               Agreement), to any previous enactment which has been replaced or
               amended and to any regulation or order made under such provision
               or enactment; and

1.2.2          references to the parties, recitals, clauses and the Schedules
               are references respectively to the parties, recitals, clauses and
               the Schedules of and to this Agreement.

2.      SALE AND PURCHASE OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE AMP
        CONTRACT

2.1     The Vendors hereby sell and assign to the Purchaser the Intellectual
        Property Rights with effect from Completion.

2.2     Solutions hereby agrees to sell to the Purchaser the AMP Contract with
        effect from Completion.

2.3     For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement shall operate to
        transfer from the Vendors to the Purchaser, nor to impose any obligation
        or liability on the Purchaser in respect of, any assets of the Vendors
        other than the Intellectual Property Rights and the AMP Contract, nor
        any of the other liabilities of the Vendors, except as specifically
        provided in this Agreement.

3.      CONSIDERATION PAYABLE BY THE PURCHASER

3.1     The consideration payable for the sale and assignment of the
        Intellectual Property Rights shall be the sum of US$2,000,000 (two
        million United States dollars) payable by the Purchaser to Solutions.

3.2     The consideration payable for the sale of the AMP Contract shall be the
        sum of Pound Sterling1, (one pound sterling) payable by the Purchaser to
        Solutions.

3.3     The purchase consideration shall be paid in full at Completion by
        bankers' draft drawn on a clearing bank with an office in the City of
        London available for immediate credit through the town clearing system
        or by telegraphic transfer in favour of the Vendors' Solicitors and
        delivered by the Purchaser to the Vendors' Solicitors.

3.4     All sums payable by the Purchaser are stated exclusive of Value Added
        Tax which shall (if applicable) be payable in addition to such sums on
        the presentation by the Vendors of the relevant Value Added Tax invoice.

3.5     If any payment falls due on a day which is not a Business Day, payment
        shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day.

4.      COMPLETION

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4.1     Completion shall take place on the Completion Date.

4.2     At Completion, the Purchaser shall deliver to the Receiver on behalf of
        the Vendors a banker's draft complying with the requirements of Clause
        3.3 or transmit by telegraphic transfer in accordance with Clause 3.3.

4.3     At Completion, the Vendors shall make available to the Purchaser all
        copies in the Vendors' possession in whatever form of the computer
        programs which are the subject of the Intellectual Property Rights and
        all documentation in the Vendors' possession in relation thereto,
        provided that the Vendors shall be entitled to retain at least one copy
        of the Programs and the Program Documentation for the purposes specified
        in Clause 6 hereof only.

4.4     At Completion, the Vendors shall deliver to the Purchaser releases in
        terms reasonably satisfactory to the Purchaser's Solicitors of the
        Charges insofar as they apply to the Intellectual Property Rights and
        the AMP Contract.

5.      EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES

5.1     All representations, warranties and conditions, express or implied and
        whether statutory or otherwise are expressly excluded (including,
        without limitation, warranties and covenants for or as to title to the
        Intellectual Property Rights, freedom from encumbrances, quiet
        possession, further assurance, merchantable quality, fitness for purpose
        and description) in relation to the sale of the Intellectual Property
        Rights hereunder. It is agreed by the Purchaser that the provisions of
        this Agreement are fair and reasonable in the context of a sale by a
        company in receivership and particularly having regard to the following
        matters, namely:

5.1.1          that the Receiver have specially told the Purchaser that the
               Purchaser must rely absolutely on its own opinion and/or that of
               its professional advisers concerning the Intellectual Property
               Rights and the quality, state and condition of the same, their
               fitness and/or suitability for any purpose, the possibility that
               some or all of them may have defects not apparent on inspection
               and examination (which could render it inappropriate that they
               should be described as they are in fact described in this
               Agreement) or the reasons that the Purchaser has or should have
               for purchasing the Intellectual Property Rights and the use to
               which the Purchaser intends or should intend to put them; and

5.1.2          that the Purchaser has, and has informed the Vendors and the
               Receiver that it has, skilled professional advice available to it
               concerning the Intellectual Property Rights and the matters
               referred to in sub-paragraph 5.1.1 above, that it is on the basis
               of this advice that the Purchaser has agreed to purchase the
               Intellectual Property Rights on an "as is" basis for a

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               consideration calculated to take into account (inter alia) the
               risk to the Purchaser represented by this Agreement.

5.2     The Purchaser acknowledges, for the avoidance of doubt that, if it shall
        be found that the Vendors do not have title or unencumbered title to any
        or all of the Intellectual Property Rights this shall not be a ground
        for rescinding, avoiding or varying any or all of the provisions hereof
        or for the recovery of any or all of the consideration paid by the
        Purchaser hereunder.

5.3     The exclusions of liability set out in this Clause 5 shall arise and
        continue notwithstanding the termination of the agency of the Receiver
        before or after the signing of this Agreement and shall operate as
        waivers of any claims in tort as well as under the law of contract and
        such exclusions shall be in addition to and not in substitution for and
        notwithstanding any right of indemnity or relief otherwise available to
        the Vendor and/or the Receivers.

5.4     Nothing in this Agreement shall operate to restrict or affect in any way
        any right of the Receiver to an indemnity or to a lien whether under
        section 44 or Section 234 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or otherwise
        howsoever.

5.5     The Receiver are entering into and signing this Agreement as agents for
        the Vendor and, save for Clauses 7.3 and 10.8, shall incur no personal
        liability whatsoever in respect of any matter referred to in this
        Agreement and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, in
        respect of any of the obligations undertaken by the Vendor or in respect
        of any failure on the part of the Vendor to observe, perform or comply
        with any such obligations or in relation to any associated arrangement
        or negotiations whether such liability would arise under Section 44 of
        the Insolvency Act 1986 or otherwise however.

5.6     The Purchaser undertakes to the Receiver that it will not do or permit
        to be done anything that does or may cause the Receiver to be in breach
        of the Data Protection Act 1998 and to indemnify the Receiver and hold
        them harmless against any liability they may have for or in respect of
        any such breach arising by virtue of any act or omission of the
        Purchaser or anyone acting on its behalf.

6.      GRANT BACK

6.1     In consideration of the Vendors entering into this Agreement the
        Purchaser hereby grants to the Vendors and the Receiver and their
        respective successors and assigns an exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable
        and assignable licence in relation to the Intellectual Property Rights
        in the Current Release and Current Version of the Programs and Program
        Documentation for the purpose only of enabling the Vendors and/or the
        Receiver or their respective successors and assigns:

6.1.1          to perform and fulfil in all respects all of the Vendors'
               obligations under the ASP Contracts (and for the avoidance of
               doubt the licence granted

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               pursuant to this Clause 6 is limited to the performance of the
               Vendors' obligations under the ASP Contracts as they exist as at
               the Completion Date);

6.1.2          subject to Clause 7, only to the extent necessary to enable the
               Vendors to perform and fulfil in all respects their obligations
               under the AMP Contract;

6.1.3          to grant licences for such consideration and on such terms as
               they shall think fit in relation to the Current Release and
               Current Version of the Programs and Program Documentation or any
               part thereof only, for use of the Current Release and Current
               Version of the Programs and Program Documentation in the Asia
               Pacific Region only, by customers of the Vendors and/or the
               Receiver and/or their respective successors and assigns located
               in the Asia Pacific Region only.

6.2     For the purposes referred to in Clause 6.1.1, 6.1.2 and 6.1.3 only, but
        otherwise without restriction, the Vendors and their successors and
        assigns shall be entitled to make unlimited copies of the whole or any
        part of the Current Version and Current Release of the Programs and the
        Program Documentation and to reverse compile, modify or adapt the whole
        or any part of the Current Version and Current Release of the Programs
        and the Program Documentation.

6.3     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Purchaser may
        bring any claim or proceeding against any person, including without
        limitation the Vendors, the Receivers, their successor and assigns,
        sub-licensees of the Vendors, Receivers, their successors, assigns and
        third parties, relating to the infringement or suspected infringement of
        the Purchaser's Intellectual Property Rights.

6.4     Without limiting any other provision of this Agreement, any intellectual
        property rights created or brought into existence by the Vendors, their
        successors or assigns under and in accordance with this Agreement will
        vest in the Vendors, their successors or assigns, as the case may be.
        For the avoidance of doubt, nothing herein shall assign or transfer to
        the Vendors, Receivers, their successors, assigns or any third party any
        Intellectual Property Rights.

7.      THE AMP CONTRACT AND ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

7.1     In consideration of the sale by Solutions to the Purchaser of the AMP
        Contract and subject to the following provisions of this Clause 7, the
        Purchaser hereby undertakes to perform the Vendors' obligations that
        remain to be performed under the AMP Contract as at the Completion Date
        as they fall due.

7.2     The Vendors and the Purchaser shall, as soon as reasonably practicable
        following Completion, meet for the purpose of reaching agreement on the
        number of employees and/or other contractors of the Vendors ("Staff") to
        be transferred to

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        the Purchaser in order to enable the Purchaser properly to perform its
        obligations under the AMP Contract.

7.3     Until any Staff are transferred to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 7.2,
        the Vendors undertake to use their best endeavours to provide the
        services of such Staff as the Purchaser deems reasonably necessary for
        the proper performance of the AMP Contract, PROVIDED ALWAYS that the
        Purchaser shall pay the Vendor the full employment costs of such Staff.
        The Vendors hereby agree not to alter the terms of employment of such
        Staff or otherwise terminate their employment without the prior consent
        of the Purchaser and the Vendors and the Receiver shall jointly and
        severally indemnify the Purchaser from any claims by any employee or
        former employee of the Vendors arising under the Transfer of
        Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 and the Vendors
        shall jointly and severally indemnify the Purchaser from any claims by
        any employee of the Vendors arising from or connected with the
        employment or termination thereof.

7.4     The Vendors hereby undertake to use all reasonable endeavours to assign
        or novate the AMP Contract to the Purchaser as soon as practicable
        following the Completion Date.

7.5     Pending the assignment of the benefit of or the novation of the AMP
        Contract to the Purchaser, the Vendors and the Receiver shall hold the
        benefit of the AMP Contract on trust for the Purchaser and, irrespective
        of whether or not the AMP Contract has been assigned or novated, as the
        case may be, to the Purchaser, the Vendors and the Receiver shall
        account in full to the Purchaser for all monies received by the Vendors
        or the Receiver (less the reasonable cost of their collection) after the
        Completion Date in respect of work done or services supplied under the
        AMP Contract after the Completion Date, the Vendors and the Receiver
        being entitled to retain for their own account any monies received by
        them for work done or services supplied under the AMP Contract prior
        thereto.

7.6     The Vendors jointly and severally hereby undertake to indemnify the
        Purchaser at all times and from time to time against all and any losses,
        damages, interest, costs or expenses whatsoever suffered or incurred by
        the Purchaser in connection with the performance or non-performance, as
        the case may be, by the Vendors or the Receiver of their respective
        obligations under the AMP Contract prior to the Completion Date.

7.7     The Purchaser shall act as the agent of the Vendors for the purpose of
        collecting (in relation to which it shall use all reasonable endeavours)
        and giving effective receipts for the Accounts Receivable. The Purchaser
        shall account on a monthly basis, no later than the last day of each
        calendar month, to the Receiver on behalf of the Vendors for all monies
        so collected (including VAT) provided that, pending such accounting, the
        Purchaser shall hold the same on trust for the Vendors.

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7.8     In consideration of the performance by the Purchaser of its obligations
        under clause 7.7, the Vendors shall each month pay to the Purchaser a
        commission at the rate of 10% of the monies collected by the Purchaser
        (including VAT) and for which the Purchaser has accounted to the
        Receiver pursuant to clause 7.7 above during the preceding calendar
        month, such commission to be paid within 7 days after the end of the
        relevant calendar month.

7.9     Payment of any Accounts Receivable both to the Vendors and to the
        Purchaser shall (in the absence of manifest error) be attributable to
        those Accounts Receivable in respect of which the relevant payer
        expressly apportions his payment or, if he makes no such apportionment,
        to the Account Receivable first in time incurred by him.

8.      RESIDUAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

8.1     Following a written request to the Receiver from the Purchaser at any
        time after Completion in respect of any subsidiary or subsidiary
        undertaking of Group other than Solutions (a "Group Company"), the
        Receiver shall forthwith use their best endeavours to procure the
        assignment to the Purchaser for Pound Sterling1 of any of the Residual
        Intellectual Property Rights of any Group Company.

8.2     For the purposes of this Clause 8, "Residual Intellectual Property
        Rights" means all of the rights of the relevant Group Company to the
        copyright, patents, trademarks, designs, know-how and other similar
        rights (whether or not registered) and any application or a right to
        apply for the protection or registration of such rights as at the date
        of the transfer to the Purchaser wherever in the world such rights
        subsists, in the Programs and the Program Documentation insofar only as
        the foregoing relates to the business carried on by Solutions.

8.3     The provisions of Clause 6 shall apply mutatis mutandis to any Residual
        Intellectual Property Rights sold and assigned to the Purchaser pursuant
        to this Clause 8.

9.      ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY

Unless otherwise required by law, the parties shall keep this Agreement
confidential and no statement or announcement of any nature relating to the
terms, conditions and subject matter of this Agreement shall be made to the
public, the press or otherwise unless in a form previously agreed between the
parties, save that the Receiver shall be at liberty to disclose the terms of
this Agreement to the Bank and to any liquidator and to show appropriate figures
in their receivership records, accounts and returns.

10.     GENERAL PROVISIONS

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10.1    Each party shall subject as otherwise expressly provided in this
        Agreement pay its own legal, accountancy and other costs, charges and
        expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement.

10.2    This Agreement is personal to the parties and shall not be capable of
        assignment.

10.3    Any notices:

10.3.1         must be in writing and may be given:

10.3.1.1              to any company which is a party at its registered office
                      or at the address shown hereinbefore as the address of
                      that party;

10.3.1.2              to any individual who is a party at the address of that
                      individual given at the beginning of this Agreement;

               or in either case to such other address as may have been notified
               to the other parties;

10.3.2         will be effectively served:

10.3.2.1              on the day of receipt where any hand-delivered letter, any
                      telex or telefax message is received on a Business Day
                      before or during normal working hours;

10.3.2.2              on the following Business Day, where any hand-delivered
                      letter, any telex or telefax message is received either on
                      a Business Day after normal working hours or on any other
                      day; or

10.3.2.3              on the second Business Day following the day of posting
                      from within the United Kingdom of any letter sent by post
                      office inland first class mail postage prepaid.

10.4    The clause headings used in this Agreement are for ease of reference
        only and do not affect he construction of any of its provisions.

10.5    This Agreement is governed by and is to be construed in accordance with
        English law.

10.6    The parties accept the exclusive jurisdiction of the appropriate court
        of law in England in relation to all matters, claims and disputes
        arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.

10.7    In the event that any legal action in respect of this Agreement is
        started, the process by which it is started may be served on the
        defendant or, if specified in

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        this Agreement, any other person on its behalf at the place at which and
        in the manner in which notices may be given to that party.

10.8    Upon and after Completion, the Vendors and the Receiver shall do and
        execute and deliver or procure to be done, executed and delivered all
        such further acts, deeds, documents, instruments of conveyance,
        assignment and transfer and things as may be necessary to give effect to
        the terms of this Agreement, to place control of the Intellectual
        Property Rights and the Residual Intellectual Property Rights in the
        hands of the Purchaser and as the Purchaser may request in order
        effectively to convey, transfer, vest and record title to the
        Intellectual Property Rights and the Residual Intellectual Property
        Rights in the Purchaser and pending the doing of such acts, deeds
        documents and things the Vendors shall as from Completion, hold the
        legal estate in the Intellectual Property Rights and the Residual
        Intellectual Property Rights in trust for the Purchaser to the extent
        that they shall not have transferred to the Purchaser.

10.9    The Vendors shall make available for inspection and copying by the
        Purchaser such records and accounts to be retained by them hereunder and
        which relate to the Intellectual Property Rights, the Residual
        Intellectual Property Rights and the AMP Contract as the Purchaser may
        reasonably require for so long as these remain in the custody of the
        receivers.

10.10   All of the provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and
        effect notwithstanding completion of the sale and purchase herein
        contained (except insofar as they set out obligations which have been
        fully performed at Completion).

10.11   If any provision or part of a provision of this Agreement shall be or be
        found by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or
        unenforceable such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the
        other provisions or parts of such provisions of this Agreement, all of
        which shall remain in full force and effect.

AS WITNESS the hands of the parties the day and year first above written.

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                                  THE SCHEDULE

                                  THE PROGRAMS

QSP WebFinance Suite

General Ledger
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Purchasing Management
Project Tracking
Fixed Assets
Sales Invoicing
Contract Billing
Commitment Accounting
Inventory Management
Purchase Order Processing
Job Costing
Credit Manager
Bank Reconciliation
Employee Expense Ledger
Service Ledger
Leasing sub-module
Direct Debits
EC Intrastat
Order Portal
Requisition Portal

QSP Web Financials Airline Solution

Inter Airline Settlement
Airline Travel Card

Other Software

Softpaint
Softscreen
MXPE technology
AGEN-T technology
QED -- Query & Exchange of Data
OPUS -- Online printing utility system
ITK -- Interface toolkit
Report Writer
File Writer

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Visual QED
Web User Interface
Character User Interface
Graphical User Interface
BARCASH -- Barclays Cash Management System
Pearl IBCA -- Industrial business customer accounting
Consolidation module

Financial Collaborator
Information Dynamis
Information Warehouse
Information Extracts

Business Event Manager
Business Graphics
InterCompany Accounting
IntraCompany Accounting

Journal Upload/Download
Budget Upload/Download

CARD Billing
DOCS -- Direct operating cost system
TravelCard
RIMS -- retail invoice matching system
Headstart catalogues
All software release/version migration utilities
All technology/platform change conversion software
Installation software, scripts and verification processes

Software Versions

All the above software for the current version of Universal Olas and WebFinance
Suite version 4.7.2 and all prior releases

All the above software for the current version of OLAS 3.x and all prior
releases.

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SIGNED BY                            )
                                     )
For and on behalf of                 )
QSP GROUP PLC                        )

SIGNED BY                            )
                                     )
For and on behalf of                 )
QSP SOLUTIONS LIMITED                )

SIGNED BY                            )
                                     )
For and on behalf of                 )
WALKER FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED   )

SIGNED BY                            )
                                     )
As duly authorised attorney for      )
PETER GEORGE MILLS                   )
                                     )

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                                        DATED                               2001

                                        QSP GROUP PLC                        (1)

                                        QSP SOLUTIONS LIMITED                (2)

                                        WALKER FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED   (3)

                                        AND

                                        PETER GEORGE MILLS                   (4)

                                        ----------------------------------------

                                        AGREEMENT
                                        FOR
                                        THE SALE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
                                        AND THE AMP CONTRACT

                                        ----------------------------------------

                                        Middleton Potts
                                        3 Cloth Street
                                        Barbican
                                        London EC1A 7NP

                                        Ref: R/3712-1/cjc
                                        Tel:  020 7600 2333
                                        Fax: 020 7600 0108

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