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Exhibit
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AMENDMENT
NO. 5 TO MACROMEDIA FLASH COMMUNICATION
SERVER
LICENSE AGREEMENT
This
Amendment No. 5 (“Amendment”) to the Macromedia Flash Communication Server
License Agreement by and between VitalStream, Inc., a Delaware corporation
with
its principal place of business at Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000 (“Licensee”) and Adobe Systems, Incorporated (“Adobe”) (as successor to
Macromedia, Inc.), a Delaware corporation, with its principal place of business
at 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000, is effective as of December 30, 2005
(the “Amendment Effective Date”).
WHEREAS,
the parties entered into the Macromedia Flash Communication Server License
Agreement dated as of November 17, 2003 (the “Original Agreement”), as amended
by Amendment No. 1 to the Original Agreement dated as of April 28, 2004
(“Amendment 1”), Amendment No. 2 to Original Agreement dated as of April 28,
2004 (“Amendment 2”), Amendment
No. 3 to the Original Agreement dated as of August 6, 2004 (“Amendment
3),
and
Amendment No. 4 to the Original Agreement dated as of March 1, 2005 (“Amendment
4). Amendment 1, Amendment 2, Amendment 3, and Amendment 4 together with the
Original Agreement, shall be referred to herein as the “Agreement”;
and
WHEREAS,
the parties desire to expand their business relationship;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and other valuable consideration,
the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree
as
follows:
Except
as
expressly provided herein, all defined terms shall have the meanings ascribed
to
them in the Agreement.
1. Term
Extension.
The
Term of the Agreement shall be extended to [***]. In Section 7 of the Original
Agreement, the following words shall be deleted from the second sentence
thereof: “…,however, after the initial term of the Agreement, either party may
terminate the Agreement with at least ninety (90) days prior written
notice.”
2. Fees.
Section
2
of the Original Agreement (Fees) and Section 1 of Amendment 4 shall be replaced
in their entirety with the following.
A.
License Fees.
At
the
beginning of each Term, Licensee shall pay Adobe a non-cancelable and
non-refundable fee (the “Prepayment Fee”). The rate for the license fees due
under the Agreement
(the
“License Fees”) for the Term shall be calculated based upon the amount of the
Prepayment Fee as follows:
Prepayment Fee | License Fee |
Minimum
Transfer Fee
|
$[***] | [***]% |
$[***]
|
$[***] | [***]% |
$[***]
|
$[***] | [***]% |
$[***]
|
$[***] | [***]% |
$[***]
|
$[***] | [***]% |
$[***]
|
The
Licensee Fee shall equal the percentage of all fees that Licensee receives
from
Customers for the set-up and use of the Service and the Additional Service,
subject to the Minimum Transfer Fees (as defined below) or the Minimum
Additional Service Fees (as defined below), as the case may be. If during the
Term, Licensee advises Adobe in writing that it elects to make additional
Prepayment Fees above the commitment in Paragraph B of this Section (“Additional
Prepayment Fee”) specifying the USD amount of such Additional Prepayment Fee,
subject to the payment provisions of Section 2.B. below, then the License Fees
and Minimum Transfer Fees subsequent to Adobe’s receipt of notice from Licensee
of Additional Prepayment Fee shall be adjusted to reflect the License Fee and
Minimum Transfer Fee rate applicable to the amount of the Prepayment Fee plus
the Additional Prepayment Fee.
The
pricing of the Service and the Additional Service (as defined in Amendment
3)
shall be at the sole discretion of Licensee, as the same may be changed from
time to time.
B.
Prepayment Fee.
The
Prepayment Fee is non-cancelable and non-refundable, except that if this
Agreement is terminated by Licensee for Cause (as defined in Section 7 of the
Agreement, as amended by Section 5 hereof) prior to the Prepayment Fee and,
if
applicable, any Additional Prepayment Fee, having been fully expended, then
Licensee shall be entitled to receive a refund in the amount of that portion
of
the Prepayment Fee and, if applicable, any Additional Prepayment Fee, that
had
not been expended as of the date of such termination, which refund payment
shall
be made by Adobe to Licensee within 15 days of the date of termination, and
any
portion of the refund not paid within such 15 days shall be subject to a late
charge of one and one-half percent (1.5 %) per month or the maximum rate allowed
by applicable law, whichever is less, on the overdue balance. Notwithstanding
any refund of the Prepayment Fee and any Additional Prepayment Fee as described
in the preceding sentence, Licensee shall continue to pay License Fees if and
as
Licensee continues to use the Software to provide the Service to Customers
in
accordance with Section 7 of the Agreement. Licensee shall pay the Prepayment
Fee for the next Term in accordance with the following schedule:
USD$[***]
due on or before February 5, 2006; and
USD$[***]
due on or before August 7, 2006.
Licensee
shall pay any Additional Prepayment Fee in accordance with the following
schedule:
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C.
Minimum
Transfer Fees.
Licensee
shall meter the amount of video transferred by the Software for the Service
and
the Additional Service in Gigabytes (GB). The minimum transfer fees payable,
per
Customer, to Adobe for use of the Software for the Service and the Additional
Service (the “Minimum Transfer Fees”) are reflected in Section 2.A and shall be
based on the Prepayment Fee made during the Term. Eighty-five percent (85%)
of
the Minimum Transfer Fees shall be deemed allocated for license fees and fifteen
percent (15%) shall be allocated to Support and Maintenance.
D. Unexpended
Prepayment Fees at the End of the Term
At
the
end of the Term, if Licensee renews the Agreement for [***]pursuant to Section
one of Amendment 5, Licensee shall have an additional [***]to use any Prepayment
Fees not expended during the Term (at the License Fee and Minimum Transfer
Fee
rates existing at the end of the Term); provided however, the unexpended
Prepayment Fees, shall not be considered in determining the License Fees or
Minimum Transfer Fees for the renewal Term. For example, if Licensee made
Prepayment Fees of $[***]during the Term, but only expended $[***] during the
Term, in the next renewal term, Licensee would have [***] months to use the
unexpended $[***] at the License Fee rate of [***]% and the Minimum Transfer
Fee
rate of $.12.
E.
Support
and Maintenance Fees.
Licensee
has elected to purchase Support and Maintenance for the Software for [***]
year
following the Amendment Effective Date. The annual fee for such Support and
Maintenance is included in the License Fees set forth under Section A above,
and
is equal to [***]% of the License Fees for the Service or the Additional
Service, as the case may be.
F.
Trials.
Licensee
is permitted to offer one trial (or pilot program, as applicable) per Customer
for the Service or the Additional Service (each, a “Trial”). During a Trial,
neither Customer nor Licensee shall owe Adobe any fees for use of the Software
provided that such Trial does not last more than [***]and no more than [***]
GB
of total video is transferred during the Trial. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Licensee may request an additional amount of video transfer for a Trial, and
such request may be granted at Adobe’s discretion. In the event that a Trial for
the Service exceeds the GB limits set forth above, Licensee shall owe Adobe
the
Minimum Transfer Fees for each GB transferred in excess of the [***] GB. In
the
event that a Trial for the Additional Service exceeds the GB limits set forth
above, Licensee shall owe Adobe the Minimum Additional Service Fee as set forth
below for each such Trial as a flat fee and in lieu of a fee based upon GB
transferred in such Trial.
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3. The
following shall be added to Section 2 (d) of Exhibit C of the Original
Agreement:
“For
each
incident escalated pursuant to this section, a response will be made before
the
end of the next business day.
4.
Licensee
will be invited to participate in the beta testing programs for Flash Media
Server, Premiere Pro, Flash Professional and any newly developed Adobe Products
in the digital video field subject to the terms of each product’s Beta
XXXX.
5.
VIP
Customer Pricing Program. Exhibit
E
(VIP Customer Pricing Program) attached hereto shall be added to the
Agreement.
6.
Support
Levels.
If
during the Term, Adobe offers a higher level of support than the Gold Level
Support currently received by Licensee, than Licensee shall be eligible to
receive said higher level of support at no additional cost.
7.
Effect of Amendment. Except as otherwise modified herein, the Agreement (and
each amendment thereto) shall continue in full force and effect until expiration
or termination in accordance with its terms.
The
parties have caused this amendment to be executed by their respective duly
authorized representatives as of the Amendment Effective Date.
ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED | VITALSTREAM, INC. |
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx | By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx |
(signature) | (signature) |
Name:/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx | Name: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx |
Title:
VP
Treasury
|
Title: President
&
COO
|
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EXHIBIT
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