This Report on Form 10-K includes statements that reflect our belief concerning future events and financial performance. Statements which are not purely historical in nature are called "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We sometimes identify forward looking statements with such words as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "seek", "project", "plan", "intend", "believe" or similar words concerning future events.

You should not place undue reliance on these forward- looking statements. They are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from past results or our predictions. Factors that could contribute to differences include, but are not limited to, those risks and uncertainties identified under "Risk Factors" on pages 22 to 34. You should also carefully review the risk factors set forth in other documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission particularly the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any Current Reports on Form 8-K.

All statements included in this document are based on information available to us as of the date of this Report on Form

10-K, and we assume no obligation to update any such statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in forward- looking statements.

We were established in September 1998 by acquiring all of the capital stock of Data Systems Connectors, Inc., or DSCI. At that same time, we incorporated in Delaware. We are an enterprise application service provider, or ASP. Our services include the implementation and management of business software for companies. We perform our services across a secure network from data centers, allowing our customers to outsource some or almost all aspects of their application management services needs. The solutions we provide our customers are services related to enterprise software applications provided by companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Ariba and Siebel Systems, allowing our customers access to an application suite which provides (i) enterprise resource planning functionality to assist in areas such as human resources and finance, (ii) customer relationship management functionality to assist in interactions with customers, and (iii) e-business capabilities. We have arrangements with companies such as (i)Structure, XO Communications, Qwest and various telecommunications providers to provide our customers leading data center and network infrastructure technologies. Our services are designed to accommodate the requirements of medium to large, public, private, non-profit and public sector companies. By allowing our customers to outsource certain information technology services needs, we enable our customers to avoid many of the significant and unpredictable ongoing application management challenges, and to reduce costs and extend the value of their technology. By providing software application implementation, integration, management and various upgrade services and related hardware and network infrastructure, our services help reduce the information technology burdens of our customers, enabling them to focus on their core businesses and react quickly to dynamic market conditions.

We operate through two lines of business:

Traditionally, organizations have installed, operated and maintained enterprise software applications internally. The ongoing costs of operating these applications, including patching, upgrading, training and management expenses, are often significant, unpredictable and inconsistent and may increase over time. The emergence of the Internet, the increased communications bandwidth and the re-writing of enterprise software to be delivered over internet protocol networks have transformed the way enterprise software applications are being provided to customers. Instead of in-house installations, these applications are beginning to be hosted by third parties, in which the hosting company maintains the applications on an off-site server typically in a data center and delivers the applications to customers over the Internet as a service. In addition, competitive pressures have led to a renewed focus on core competencies, with many businesses concluding that building and maintaining IT capabilities across their entire set of applications are not core competencies. In response to these factors, companies are adopting hosted and managed applications rather than managing them in-house.

We manage business software applications over a secure network for a monthly fee. We offer our customers business software solutions which we believe are among the best solutions available to meet the needs of our enterprise customers. Our services provide customers the following business benefits:

Lower and More Predictable Costs.    Our customers gain access to services related to applications offered by some of the leading software vendors hosted over a secure network often without many of the significant and unpredictable follow-on software support costs associated with internally-operated IT systems. We will implement business software applications, for a fixed fee or on a time and materials basis, and will host applications for a monthly fee.

Leading Applications.    We host sophisticated enterprise applications for our customers. We offer hosted and managed solutions for software from vendors who are recognized as being leaders in their respective fields, such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Ariba and Siebel Systems.

Accelerated Time to Benefit.    We can typically complete a standard implementation of our applications in 8 to 20 weeks. This allows our customers to avoid the longer implementation times frequently experienced with installing and integrating customized, sophisticated applications on their own and training and sometimes hiring IT staff to service these applications. Our services enable customers to achieve their desired benefits quickly by reducing the time required to establish or augment their IT capabilities.

Focus on Core Business.    We reduce the IT burdens of companies by providing application implementation, management and various upgrade services and related hardware and network infrastructure. By providing our customers with software, hardware and network management capabilities, we enable companies to focus on their core business.

Outstanding Service and Support.    We are dedicated to providing our customers quality customer service and support. Our IT professionals work with our customers to manage our services and provide needed support. We assign to each customer a support team composed of software application specialists, network engineers, hardware engineers and customer support.

Our service offerings consist of application management services and professional services.

Our application management services consist of hosting and managing services for a suite of business software applications. The application suite that we host and manage is designed to provide our customers with enterprise resource planning tools and customer relationship management solutions. We are responsible to our customers for these services, regardless of whether we have developed, bought or licensed the underlying technology. We typically guarantee service levels for customers of at least 99% availability, excluding scheduled downtime. To maintain this level of service, we have configured our hosted and managed applications for capacity and performance and incorporated into our system a sophisticated backup recovery process. We have also engineered automated upgrade and testing tools that increase our efficiency, reduce our costs and improve our ability to scale our operations. We provide these services through our application management center, which manages and supports the software applications, security infrastructure, networks, hardware and data centers, and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

As of December 31, 2003, our application management services operations team consisted of 162 employees. We price our application management services based on various factors, such as the complexity of the system architecture, number and type of applications being licensed, the number of users covered by a contract and the frequency of access to our applications. The monthly fee for our application management services is typically fixed for the life of the contract, subject to increases in the event a customer requires additional applications, increases its number of users or increases frequency of use. Most of our customer agreements have three year terms.

Our application management services include the following:

Customer Support.    Our client services organization is the first point of contact for our customers. Within client services, our customer support specialists work with our experts in software applications, hardware and data center management to respond to customer requests. We also assign a member of our senior management team to each customer to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.

Application Management.    The vendors of software applications periodically release modifications, or patches, and upgrades for their software applications. Our application management experts use our automated tools, processes and test scripts to review, test and assess modifications or upgrades released by our vendors to determine the compatibility and stability of each modification or upgrade, and then they incorporate appropriate changes and make them available to our customers.

Security Management.    The secure transmission of information over telecommunication networks is a key requirement for our business. We have implemented an effective information security protection program to minimize risk to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our customers' mission critical applications and data. Our data protection program is built around a pervasive, multi-layer security model that includes: strong network perimeter defenses, aggressive real-time monitoring, detection and response capability, security enabled at the host and application levels, continuous vulnerability management, physical and operational security and the use of proven security policy management practices.

Infrastructure Management.    Our customers' data resides on servers that we typically own or lease, located in secure cages in the data centers we use. Our infrastructure management personnel are responsible for all aspects of our infrastructure requirements, including hardware procurement, installation and configuration. To maintain the integrity and confidentiality of data in our shared hosting environments, we ensure rigid partitioning of each customer's information.

Data Center and Network Management.    We engage (i) Structure, XO Communications, Qwest and other providers to offer our customers state-of-the- art data centers and network management. To maximize network availability, our application management personnel have, with our data center partners, designed our network architecture to ensure a redundancy of network hardware, facilities infrastructure and telecommunications circuits. Our application management center personnel also ensure that our services support multiple network models and offer our customers a number of connectivity options, including dedicated T1 lines and virtual private networks.

Our professional services, which include initial implementation and ongoing project-related services, are provided both by our professional services personnel and by third-party systems integrators. We have established a professional services team to implement hosted applications quickly and efficiently. As of December 31, 2003, our professional services team consisted of 35 employees located throughout the United States. We organize our professional services team by geographic location and application expertise.

We perform professional services pursuant to either fixed fee contracts or pursuant to arrangements where we will bill our customers based on the time and costs incurred in connection with consulting, training and implementing applications.

"FastLane" is one of our implementation methodologies. The FastLane approach involves a team of our IT professionals coordinating implementation of our services using our industry-specific implementation and configuration templates. Fastlane involves specific processes and steps designed to make the implementation more efficient.

Our technology enables integration, automation and hosted deployment of software applications and facilitates the hosting of these applications.

IT Command and Control.    Corio provides an interface, named iSRVCE, to its hosted environments enabling customers to have increased visibility and control over its resources managed at Corio data centers.

Automation.    Corio automation provides automation infrastructure and processes designed to enable us to efficiently implement software upgrades and patches and perform testing. Enhanced automation enables us to scale the number of hosted applications we can support.

Hosted Deployment.    We have developed, and continue to refine, technology that allows us to deliver software applications to our customers effectively in an efficient environment over the Internet.

As of December 31, 2003, we had approximately 106 application management services customers, consisting of small to medium-sized technology companies and Fortune 1000 companies. As of December 31, 2003, we had approximately 26 active professional services contracts.

For the year ended December 31, 2003, one customer, Expanets, Inc. accounted for more than 12% of our total revenues. Expanets, Inc., was recently acquired by Avaya Inc. Although we have a long-term contract with Expanets that was assumed by Avaya, we are unsure whether Avaya intends to retain our services and Avaya is migrating Expanets system to Avaya's system. This presents significant risks regarding how long Avaya/Expanets will remain a customer. For the year ended December 31, 2002, one customer, Quadrem, accounted for 11% of total revenue and this customer renewed its contract for a significantly lower amount in 2003. For the year ended December 31, 2001 no one customer accounted for more than 10% of total revenue.

We sell and market our services primarily through a direct sales force. Some of our software vendors and systems integrators also pass sales leads on to us. Sales and marketing expenses, excluding non-cash stock based compensation of $197,000 in 2003, $840,000 in 2002, and $309,000 in 2001, were $8.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $10.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2002, and $21.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. As of December 31, 2003, we had 45 sales and marketing employees. Our sales organization is segmented by geographical location.

We focus our marketing efforts on achieving brand recognition, market awareness and lead generation. We market our services through telesales, directed advertising and targeted events, including tradeshows, conferences and seminars. Our current customers provide references and we feature customer recommendations in our advertising and other promotional activities.

Research and development capabilities are essential to our strategy to enhance and expand the capabilities of our services. We have invested significant resources in creating a structured process for undertaking all our research and development and have recruited engineers and software developers with relevant industry experience. Research and development expenses, excluding non-cash stock based compensation charges (credits) of $2,000 in 2003, $148,000 in 2002, and ($253,000) in 2001, were $4.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $6.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $9.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. As of December 31, 2003, we had 26 employees on our research and development team.

We compete primarily on the basis of total cost of ownership, performance, service quality and security. Our current and potential competitors primarily include:

The companies listed above may form strategic relationships with each other to compete with us. These relationships may take the form of strategic investments, joint-marketing agreements, licenses or other contractual arrangements and may increase our competitors' ability to address customer needs with their product and service offerings. In addition, we believe that there is likely to be consolidation in our markets, which could lead to increased price competition and other forms of competition.

It is possible that new competitors or alliances may emerge and gain market share. These competitors could materially affect our ability to obtain new contracts. Further, competitive pressure could require us to reduce the price of our products and services, thus affecting our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our principal proprietary rights relate to our technology platform and processes and our trademarks. We also have trade secrets relating to other confidential and proprietary information.

We rely on a combination of copyright, trademark and trade secret protection, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements and licensing arrangements to establish and protect our intellectual property rights. We cannot be certain, however, that these instruments are sufficient to protect our technology or products.

The license agreements with our customers limit their rights to the technologies that we offer and develop for our customers. In addition, we seek to avoid disclosure of our trade secrets through a number of means, including requiring those persons with access to our proprietary information to execute nondisclosure agreements and restricting access to such information. We have applied for the registration of certain trademarks. To date, we have not secured registration of many of our trademarks. In addition, we have applied for patents on certain technology but we currently have no patents issued.

As of December 31, 2003, we had 314 employees, including 162 in application management services, 35 in professional services, 45 in sales and marketing, 26 in research and development and 46 in general and administration. None of our employees are represented by a collective bargaining agreement. We have never experienced a work stoppage and believe our relationship with our employees is good.

Our headquarters includes approximately 77,000 square feet in San Carlos, California pursuant to a lease that expires in April 2010. In fiscal 2002, we reviewed our facilities requirements and vacated approximately 20,000 square feet of this facility. Related to this action, we recorded an impairment charge of $3.8 million to record the estimated loss associated with a portion of the remaining lease stream of the unoccupied space. In May 2003, the Company signed an agreement to sublease the vacated portion of its headquarters facility through the end of its lease. In the first quarter of 2003, the Company adjusted its estimated loss related to the vacated space and recorded an additional restructuring charge of $2.5 million to reflect the terms of the sublease agreement.

We also lease approximately 17,000 square feet in Phoenix, Arizona pursuant to a lease that expires in February 2009, 9,000 square feet in Dallas, Texas pursuant to a lease that expires in April 2004 and 8,000 square feet in Rosemont, Illinois pursuant to a lease that expires in November 2005. We also lease approximately 20,000 square feet in Bangalore, India pursuant to a lease that expires in May 2007. We also have various small offices in certain other U.S. locations.

We believe that our existing facilities are adequate to meet current requirements and that additional or substitute space will be available as needed to accommodate any expansion of operations.

In November 2001, a securities class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Corio, certain of its officers and certain of the underwriters involved in Corio's initial public offering. This is one of approximately 300 similar lawsuits in a coordinated proceeding sometimes referred to as "IPO allocation lawsuits" or "laddering lawsuits." The plaintiffs generally allege that the underwriters engaged in undisclosed improper practices by giving favorable allocations of IPO shares to certain investors in exchange for excessive brokerage commissions and/or agreements for those investors to purchase additional shares in the aftermarket at predetermined higher prices. The plaintiffs seek an unspecified amount of damages. In June 2003, the plaintiffs in these cases presented a settlement proposal to all of the issuer defendants. Under the proposed settlement, the plaintiffs proposed to dismiss and release all claims against participating defendants in exchange for a contingent payment guaranty by the insurance companies collectively responsible for insuring the issuers in all the related cases, and the assignment or surrender to the plaintiffs of certain claims the issuer defendants may have against the underwriters. Under the guaranty, the insurers or companies will be required to pay the amount, if any, by which $1 billion exceeds the aggregate amount ultimately collected by the plaintiffs from the underwriter defendants in all the cases. If the plaintiffs fail to recover $1 billion and payment is required under the guaranty, Corio would be responsible to pay its pro rata portion of the shortfall, up to the amount of the self-insured retention under its insurance policy, which is $1 million. In July 2003, Corio tentatively agreed to accept this settlement proposal. The settlement is subject to acceptance by a substantial majority of the issuer defendants and execution of a definitive settlement agreement. The settlement is also subject to approval by the Court, which cannot be assured. If the settlement is not accepted by the requisite number of defendants or if it is not approved by the Court or if it otherwise is not consummated, Corio intends to defend the lawsuit vigorously. However, the litigation is in the preliminary stage, and we cannot predict its outcome. The litigation process is inherently uncertain. If the outcome of the litigation is adverse to us and if we are required to pay significant monetary damages, our business would be significantly harmed. This lawsuit may be time consuming and expensive to defend and may divert management's attention and may be costly to Corio even if the plaintiff's settlement proposal is consummated.

In November 2001, Corio filed a demand for arbitration against LivePerson, Inc. with the American Arbitration Association in San Francisco County. The arbitration related to a dispute around a services contract between the parties. On July 23, 2003, the arbitrator in this dispute issued a judgment awarding Corio damages of $1,115,440 plus interest. LivePerson, Inc. filed a motion to vacate the award in the Superior Court of California. On November 18, 2003, the Superior Court of California issued a judgment, relating to the arbitration, awarding Corio damages of $1,346,605 plus interest from October 17, 2003 until the date of payment. LivePerson, Inc. paid Corio $1,369,479 on December 18, 2003 and subsequently appealed the judgment. For any portion of the cash paid that is affirmed on appeal or otherwise finally committed, such cash received pursuant to this award will be recorded as termination fee revenue.

No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the quarter ended December 31, 2003.

Our Common Stock has been listed on The NASDAQ National Market under the symbol CRIO since our initial public offering on July 21, 2000. Prior to that date, there was no public market for our common stock. The following table sets forth the high and low quarterly closing prices as reported on the Nasdaq National Market for fiscal 2003, 2002 and 2001:

On March 26, 2004, the last reported sale price of our common stock on The NASDAQ National Market was $4.07 per share. As of March 26, 2004, we had approximately 7,200 beneficial shareholders. We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. Since we currently intend to retain all future earnings to finance future growth, we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

On October 22, 2003, the Company completed the purchase of the assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of Nexus Technology, Inc. ("Nexus"). The Company paid Nexus approximately $10.2 million, consisting of $1.9 million in cash and 2,921,390 shares of Corio common stock. In addition, Nexus will be entitled to receive an earn-out payment of up to $2.0 million payable in shares of Corio common stock contingent upon Corio's attainment of specified revenue milestones for the 3-month period ending December 31, 2004 from identified existing and prospective customers of Nexus. The cash portion of the acquisition consideration was paid out of Corio's available working capital. Per the asset purchase agreement, $500,000 of the purchase price was deposited into escrow, to be held as security for a limited period of time for any losses incurred by the Company in the event, among other matters, of any breach by Nexus of the agreements, covenants, representations and warranties it made under or in connection with the purchase agreement.

The information required by this item regarding equity compensation plans is incorporated by reference to the information set forth to the information under the caption "Executive Compensation and Other Information" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes thereto included elsewhere in this Form 10-K in order to fully understand factors that may affect the comparability of the information presented below.

                                                                        Years Ended December 31,
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                                                           2003       2002       2001       2000       1999
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                                                                 (in thousands, except per share amounts)
Statement of Operations Data                                                                                                    
Revenues:
    Application management services.................... $  60,179  $  43,559  $  36,731  $  15,326  $     746
    Professional services and other....................     8,559     12,585     14,840     29,620      5,036
                                                         ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
    Total revenues.....................................    68,738     56,144     51,571     44,946      5,782
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Costs and Expenses:
    Application management services *..................    47,756     43,053     40,572     32,564      6,297
    Professional services and other *..................     6,708     13,794     16,496     27,095      7,755
    Research and development *.........................     4,638      6,306      9,112     11,882      3,192
    Sales and marketing *..............................     8,700     10,499     21,783     34,090     11,930
    General and administrative *.......................     9,501     11,700     21,079     24,586     10,416
    Restructuring charges..............................     2,334      4,036      3,837         --         --
    Amortization of stock-based compensation...........       458      2,347      5,099     15,657      8,524
    Amortization of goodwill...........................        --         --        564      2,236      2,190
    Amortization of other intangibles..................     1,807        497         --         --         --
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    Total operating expenses...........................    81,902     92,232    118,542    148,110     50,304
                                                         ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
Loss from operations...................................   (13,164)   (36,088)   (66,971)  (103,164)   (44,522)
Interest and other income..............................       625      1,821      5,663      5,414        541
Interest and other expense.............................      (330)      (934)    (2,567)    (2,073)    (1,019)
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Net loss before income taxes...........................   (12,869)   (35,201)   (63,875)   (99,823)   (45,000)
Tax benefit............................................        --        400         --         --         --
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Net loss...............................................   (12,869)   (34,801)   (63,875)   (99,823)   (45,000)
Series E beneficial conversion charge..................        --         --         --    (20,158)        --
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Net loss attributable to common stockholders........... $ (12,869) $ (34,801) $ (63,875) $(119,981) $ (45,000)
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Basic and diluted net loss per share................... $   (0.22) $   (0.66) $   (1.27) $   (5.15) $  (38.96)
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Shares used in computation, basic and diluted .........    57,228     53,103     50,296     23,290      1,155
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* Amortization of stock-based compensation not
   included in expense line item:
      Application management services.................. $      64  $     261  $     178  $     579  $     229
      Research and development.........................         2        148       (253)     1,591        923
      Sales and marketing..............................       197        840        309      4,204      2,769
      General and administrative.......................       195      1,098      4,865      9,283      4,603
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      Total amortization of stock-based compensation... $     458  $   2,347  $   5,099  $  15,657  $   8,524
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Effective January 1, 2002, we adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142 Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. In accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 20, Accounting Changes, the effect of this accounting change is reflected prospectively. Supplemental comparative disclosure, as if the change had been retroactively applied is presented in Note 1 to the financial statements.

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                                                                              (in thousands)
Balance Sheet Data                                                                                                              
    Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash
       and short term investments...................... $  42,711  $  51,656  $  85,997  $ 138,781  $  37,177
    Total assets.......................................    72,143     80,292    113,290    181,284     61,596
    Notes payable and capital lease
       obligations, less current portion...............       387        399      4,942     10,409      7,335
    Total stockholders' equity.........................    47,236     49,415     81,339    137,843     36,484

This Report on Form 10-K includes statements that reflect our belief concerning future events and financial performance. Statements which are not purely historical in nature are called "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange act of 1934. We sometimes identify forward-looking statements with such words as "may", "will", "should", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "seek", "project", "plan", "intend", "believe" or similar words concerning future events.

You should not place undue reliance on these forward- looking statements. They are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from past results or our predictions. Factors that could contribute to differences include, but are not limited to, those risks and uncertainties identified under "Risk Factors" on pages 22 to 34. You should also carefully review the risk factors set forth in other documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission particularly the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any Current Reports on Form 8-K.

All statements included in this document are based on information available to us as of the date of this Report on Form

10-K, and we assume no obligation to update any such statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in forward- looking statements.

For fiscal 2003, total revenues increased 22% compared to fiscal 2002 revenues and total operating expenses decreased 11% compared to fiscal 2002 operating expenses. Revenue gains from our QCS and Nexus acquisitions as well as from new sales bookings more than offset any revenue loss due to terminated customers. Expenses decreased as we realized the benefits of our automation, process improvement and cost management efforts. The combination of these items resulted in a 63% improvement in our loss from operations in 2003 compared to 2002. Our continuous drive for improvement resulted in us realizing our highest customer satisfaction levels, as measured through our customer satisfaction surveys, in the fourth quarter of 2003.

We have seen increased interest in our service offerings from customer prospects in the latter half of 2003 and anticipate this momentum continuing into fiscal 2004. To drive our sales growth and extend our market share, we are making investments in our sales and marketing and professional services areas in fiscal 2004. Our research and development team will continue to focus on further automation and enhancement of our customer interaction processes. If our revenues were to increase in 2004, we anticipate that our gross margins would also increase.

Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations are based on our consolidated financial statements. These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP. The preparation of financial statements and related disclosures requires management to make judgments, assumptions and estimates that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes.

Estimates are used for, but not limited to, the accounting for revenue recognition, the allowance for doubtful accounts, certain loss contingencies, valuation allowances and other special charges. Actual results could differ from these estimates. We review the accounting policies we use in reporting our financial results on a regular basis. In addition, our senior management has reviewed these critical accounting policies and related disclosures with our Audit Committee. We have identified the policies below as critical to our business operations and the understanding of our financial condition and results of operations:

We recognize revenue from application management services as the services are provided to our customers provided that collection of the receivable is reasonably assured. We regularly monitor the payment activity and credit worthiness of our customers. If we determine that collection of revenue from a particular customer or contract is no longer reasonably assured, we designate those customers as "cash basis customers" and start to recognize revenue from that customer on a cash basis, after services have been rendered and payment for services has been received. We consider the following factors in determining whether collection of revenue is no longer reasonably assured from a customer: (i) the customer's payment history and outstanding receivables balance, (ii) the increased probability of non-payment as a result of a deterioration in the customer's financial health as indicated by our review of publicly available information, bankruptcy announcements, or other factors demonstrating a serious weakness in a customer's business such as significant layoffs, decreases in revenues, loss of customers or litigation, or (iii) the increased probability of non-payment due to service-related issues or the receipt of an early termination notice from a customer. If we receive any payment from a cash basis customer in advance of services, we would recognize the payment as revenue as the services are performed. At the time a customer is designated as a cash basis customer any uncollected accounts receivable are evaluated for collectibility. Any amounts that are deemed uncollectible are written off as a reduction to our revenue. The remaining balances remain recorded on an accrual basis and are monitored for collection. Subsequent receipts are applied to these balances before we recognize any additional revenue.

If we believe that there is a reasonable chance that we will receive payment from a customer, even if payment is not reasonably assured and the customer is cash basis, we will typically not terminate the customer and will continue to provide services to that customer. We have set forth below the amount of revenue recognized from cash basis customers for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 and the period in which the underlying services, which generated the revenue, were performed (in thousands):

                                                                                Year Ended December 31,
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Cash Basis Revenue Recorded Related to Services Performed in Current Year.. $  19,147  $  14,745  $  15,898
Cash Basis Revenue Recorded Related to Services Performed in Prior Year....     3,030      2,268        734
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      Total Cash Basis Revenue Recorded.................................... $  22,177  $  17,013  $  16,632
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Revenue earned from cash basis customers but not recognized due to the cash basis designation was $1.4 million, $3.0 million and $2.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. Since revenue related to these invoices is recognized on a cash basis, these amounts have not been included in our accounts receivable balances. In addition, only one of our cash basis customers is obligated to pay recurring application management services fees in advance.

Our revenue in the future could fluctuate significantly due to the timing and amount of payments received from cash basis customers as well as increases or decreases in the amount of customers designated as cash basis customers.

We record all costs in connection with services provided to cash basis customers as incurred.

The allowance for doubtful accounts is based on our assessment of the collectibility of specific customer accounts and the aging of the accounts receivable. If there is a deterioration of a major customer's credit worthiness or actual defaults are higher than our historical experience, our estimates of the recoverability of amounts due us could be adversely affected. We regularly review the adequacy of our allowance for doubtful accounts through identification of specific receivables where it is expected that payment will not be received in addition to establishing an unallocated reserve that is applied to all amounts that are not specifically identified. In determining specific receivables where collection may not be received, we review past due receivables and give consideration to prior collection history, whether a customer has been designated a "cash basis" customer, changes in the customer's overall business condition and the potential risk associated with the customer's industry among other factors. A general reserve is established for all amounts which have not been specifically identified, based on applying a graduated percentage to each invoice's relative aging category. The allowance for doubtful accounts reflects our best estimate as of the reporting dates. Changes may occur in the future, which may require us to reassess the collectibility of amounts and at which time we may need to provide additional allowances in excess of that currently provided. At December 31, 2003 and 2002, our allowance for doubtful accounts was $591,000 and $843,000, respectively.

We are subject to the possibility of various loss contingencies such as the risks associated with estimates included in both our restructuring liability and our professional services fixed fee contracts. We consider the likelihood of the loss or the incurrence of a liability as well as our ability to reasonably estimate the amount of loss in determining loss contingencies. An estimated loss contingency is accrued when it is probable that a liability has been incurred or an asset has been impaired and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated.

For our restructuring liability, we estimate the amounts for employee severances, impaired assets and vacated office space. We evaluate long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of any asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell.

In addition, since we perform some of our professional services on a fixed fee basis, if we incur more costs than estimated, our profitability will suffer. Our process for tracking our progress to completion on such arrangements is through individual detailed project plans and the regular review of labor hours incurred compared to estimated hours to complete the project. We believe this process results in a reasonable estimate of our progress to completion. When estimates of costs to complete the project indicate that a loss will be incurred, these losses are estimated and recognized immediately. We regularly evaluate current information available to us to determine whether such recorded losses should be adjusted.

We provided a valuation allowance against our entire net deferred tax asset, primarily consisting of net operating loss carryforwards as of December 31, 2003. The valuation allowance was recorded given the losses we incurred through December 31, 2003, and our uncertainties regarding future operating profitability and taxable income. If we do not achieve profitability, we will not fully realize these deferred tax assets.

Our revenues consist of Corio application management services revenues and professional services revenues. For customers that engage us to perform implementation services, we typically recognize professional services revenues as we implement our applications. We then recognize monthly fees from the customer, consisting primarily of application management services revenues, over the related application management service contractual term. Our professional services revenues associated with implementation initially had been relatively high compared to revenues for application management services. As our customer base has grown, application management services revenues has correspondingly grown as a percentage of revenues. With respect to total revenue, revenue for services related to ERP software applications - those applications related to the management of various functions within a company, including human resources, finance, management, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales - accounted for approximately 86% of total revenue in 2003, 65% of total revenue in 2002 and 47% of total revenue in 2001. We expect that revenue related to ERP applications will continue to account for a majority of our total revenue for the foreseeable future.

In the ordinary course of business, we have recorded revenue of $40,000 in the year ended December 31, 2003 arising from transactions with one company with which we had directors in common. At December 31, 2003, we have no accounts receivable arising from such transactions. In the ordinary course of business, we have recorded revenue of $2.3 million in the year ended December 31, 2002 arising from transactions with four companies with which we had directors in common. At December 31, 2002, accounts receivable included $659,000 arising from such transactions. In the year ended December 31, 2001, we recorded revenue of $4.4 million arising from transactions with five companies with which we had directors in common. At December 31, 2001, accounts receivable included $70,000 arising from such transactions.

Application Management Services Revenues.    Revenues from application management services consist of monthly fees from ongoing services as well as start-up fees which are recognized ratably over the contract term upon the commencement of our hosting services, which is typically three years. We also recognize revenues in respect of customer prepayments for application management services over the contract term. In addition, fees for support services are recognized as revenue as the services are performed. We price our application management services based on various factors, such as the number and type of applications being licensed, the amount of hardware and software required, the number of users covered by a contract and the frequency of access to our applications. The monthly fee for our application management services is typically fixed for the life of the contract, subject to increases in the event a customer requires additional applications, increases its number of users or increases its frequency of use. Application management services revenues comprised 88%, 78% and 71% of our total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.

Our standard contract terms include provisions for settlement fees in the event that a customer terminates its contract prior to the expiry of the term. These settlement fees are recognized as revenue when received. Because these events are unpredictable and uncertain, the amount received in any one quarter may vary significantly and there may not be any settlement fees in some future quarters. Included in fiscal year 2003 results are settlement fees arising from early terminations of approximately $3.1 million. Included in fiscal year 2002 results are settlement fees arising from early terminations of approximately $4.5 million. Included in fiscal year 2001 results are settlement fees arising from early terminations of approximately $3.4 million and the recognition of prepaid revenue in the amount of $712,000 from a customer that had filed for bankruptcy. These termination and settlement fees were primarily the result of emerging high-growth companies experiencing financial difficulties or discontinuing operations. As we focus on customers that are larger and more stable and move away from high-growth companies, revenue from termination and settlement fees may diminish as customer terminations decrease. Also, the sales cycle for larger customers typically takes longer and this may adversely affect our application management services revenue.

Professional Services and Other Revenues.    Revenues from professional services consist of fees derived from providing implementation, consulting, training and related services for our customers. We perform these professional services pursuant to fixed-fee or time and materials contracts. We generally recognize revenues from the delivery of professional services as we perform the services under time and materials contracts or under the percentage-of-completion method of contract accounting. We record losses resulting from fixed-fee contracts at the time the losses become known. Professional services and other revenues comprised 12%, 22% and 29% of our total revenues for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.

Since we implement some of our services on a fixed fee basis, if we incur more costs than we expect in implementations, our profitability will suffer. Our process for tracking our progress to completion on such arrangements, is through individual detailed project plans and the regular review of labor hours incurred compared to estimated hours to complete the project. When estimates of costs to complete the project indicate that a loss will be incurred, these losses are recognized immediately. In the third quarter of 2003, we determined that our provision for contract losses that we had recorded during fiscal years 2001 and 2002 was no longer appropriate due to our decreased number of fixed fee contracts. We reduced our provision for contract losses by $668,000 which resulted in a corresponding reduction to professional services expenses in 2003. At December 31, 2003 and 2002, our provision for contract losses was $153,000 and $821,000, respectively. Any estimation process, including that which is used in preparing contract accounting models, involves inherent risk. To the extent that our estimates of revenues and expenses on these contracts change periodically in the normal course of business, due to the modifications of our contractual arrangements or changes in cost, such changes would be reflected in our results of operations as a change in accounting estimate in the period the revisions are made.

We record payments received in advance of revenue recognition as deferred revenues. Our deferred revenues were $4.0 million at December 31, 2003 and $2.6 million at December 31, 2002. Deferred revenues at December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 included $76,000 and $647,000 respectively of professional services revenues that will be recognized under the percentage-of-completion method of contract accounting and $3.9 million and $2.0 million respectively of prepaid application management services revenue that will be recognized ratably as earned over the term of the contract. We sometimes invoice for an advance payment from customers under professional services engagements, and our current payment terms under each type of arrangement is generally net 30 days.

We evaluate our long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of any asset to future undiscounted net cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets. Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell. During fiscal 2003, we did not record any impairment charges. During fiscal 2002, we recorded impairment charges of $109,000.

On September 27, 2000, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S., L.L.C exercised its right to convert a portion of its initial warrant representing 2,333,333 shares into 960,810 shares of common stock through a cashless exercise. As these shares outstanding were repurchaseable under certain circumstances, the fair value of these shares subject to repurchase were remeasured each reporting period until May 2003, when the repurchase rights lapsed. Expense of $416,000, $11,000 and $164,000 was recorded in sales and marketing expense for 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively, related to these shares.

On October 22, 2003, we completed the purchase of substantially all of the assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of Nexus Technology, Inc. ("Nexus"). We paid Nexus approximately $10.2 million, consisting of $1.9 million in cash and 2,921,390 shares of Corio common stock. In addition, Nexus will be entitled to receive an earn-out payment of up to $2.0 million payable in shares of Corio common stock contingent upon our attainment of specified revenue milestones for the 3-month period ending December 31, 2004 from identified existing and prospective customers of Nexus.

In September 2002, we acquired certain assets of QCS's application management services business, including customer contracts related to the business, internally used and developed software, certain tangible assets such as computers, servers, routers, firewalls and related equipment, and accounts receivable. We also assumed certain liabilities of QCS as part of our acquisition. We paid $15 million in cash for the acquisition and accrued direct acquisition costs of approximately $1.3 million.

Total revenues increased to $68.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2003 from $56.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $51.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. For the year ended December 31, 2003, one customer, Expanets, Inc. accounted for more than 12% of our total revenues. Expanets, Inc., was recently acquired by Avaya Inc. Although we have a long-term contract with Expanets that was assumed by Avaya, we are unsure whether Avaya intends to retain our services and Avaya is migrating Expanets's system to Avaya's system. This presents significant risks regarding how long Avaya/Expanets will remain a customer. If we lose Avaya/Expanets as a customer, or any other significant customer, or if a significant customer makes a significant reduction in fees paid to us, and if we are unable to replace this revenue with revenue from new or existing clients, this will have a significant adverse effect on our ability to achieve profitability and positive cash flow. For the year ended December 31, 2002, one customer, Quadrem, accounted for 11% of our total revenues and this customer renewed its contract for a significantly lower amount in 2003. For the year ended December 31, 2001 no one customer accounted for more than 10% of our total revenues.

During the late 1990's there was a significant increase in demand for new applications licenses from the enterprise software vendors due to the concerns over the year 2000, or Y2K, issue and dot com demand phenomena which, in turn, drove increased demand for implementation services. As this demand waned in the 2001-2003 time period, the size of the implementation services market decreased as well. Corio's reduction in professional services revenue during this time period is a reflection of this change in market condition. Over the last few years, a number of Corio's customers' businesses began to struggle or failed entirely resulting in their inability to pay for Corio's services and, therefore, lowered applications management services revenues from our existing customer base.

Application Management Services Revenues.    For fiscal 2003, revenues from our application management services were $60.2 million, including $3.1 million in revenues from customer contract terminations. Included in the fiscal 2003 revenues of $60.2 million is $21.2 million recognized as a result of payments from cash basis customers. In addition, included in fiscal 2003 revenues is $785,000 from customer contracts acquired as part of our October 2003 acquisition of Nexus Technology, Inc. ("Nexus"). Included in the fiscal 2002 revenues of $43.6 million is $16.7 million recognized as a result of payments from cash basis customers. For fiscal 2001, revenues were $36.7 million, including $3.4 million in revenues from customer contract terminations and the recognition of prepaid revenue of $712,000 from a customer that had filed for bankruptcy. Included in the fiscal 2001 revenues of $36.7 million is $14.4 million recognized as a result of payments from cash basis customers. The revenue gains from 2001 to 2003 were due to revenue from the acquired Nexus and QCS contracts plus, to a lesser degree, revenue from our sales to new customers. These gains more than offset the loss of revenue based on customer terminations.

During 2001, 2002 and 2003, we also experienced downward pressure on pricing. The cost of technology assets and technology labor declined during the 2001-2003 time period. In response to these declining costs, we repackaged and re-priced our service offerings resulting in lower prices to new customers. In addition, this downward pressure on pricing lowered the application management services revenues from our installed base because our existing customers demanded lower cost solutions upon renewal of their contracts and sometimes even before their contracts were renewed. However, these price reductions had less of an adverse impact on our net loss as compared to our revenues because much of these price reductions corresponded with a decrease in price for the technology underlying the services we provide. We have focused on maintaining a range of operating profitability per customer throughout this decrease in pricing and have generally been effective in doing this. However, we expect to continue to experience this downward pressure on pricing from our installed customer base and this will result in downward pressure on application management services revenue.

At December 31, 2003, our total number of application management customers was 106, at December 31, 2002, the number of customers was 86 and at December 31, 2001 the number was 50. At December 31, 2003 and 2002, we had a balance of $3.9 million and $2.0 million, respectively, for deferred application management services revenues primarily from customers who prepaid a portion of their contract. These deferred revenues will be recognized as the related services are provided over the life of the contract.

Application management services gross margins were 21% in 2003, 1% in 2002, and -10% in 2001. The increase in gross margins was due to the increase in revenues and resulting economies of scale and to cost cutting measures which included headcount reductions, automating of processes to increase efficiencies, improved leveraging and scaling of resources and renegotiating lower pricing with vendors. If revenue remains constant or increases, we anticipate our application management services gross margin will increase in fiscal 2004 compared to 2003 as we continue to recognize the benefits of our cost-cutting measures and increased efficiencies.

Professional Services and Other Revenues.    Our professional services and other revenues were $8.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $12.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $14.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. The decrease in professional services revenues from 2001 to 2003 was due to a decrease in sales to new customers, resulting from such factors as a decrease in new license purchases generally, and therefore fewer implementations, and our decision to shift professional services implementations to outside contractors and third party integrators. The market for professional services grew in the late 1990s due to concerns over the Y2K issue and the dot com boom and then, after 2000, the professional services market decreased in size based on factors such as the Y2K issue passing and the dot com crash. Professional services gross margins were 22% in 2003, -10% in 2002, and -11% in 2001. The increase in gross margins was due to cost cutting measures which included headcount and contractor cost reductions to adjust costs to be more in line with revenue. The 2003 professional services gross margin was also favorably impacted by a $668,000 reduction in our provision for contract losses which resulted in a corresponding reduction to professional services expenses in 2003. We anticipate that professional services revenue and the associated margins will fluctuate significantly from period to period depending on the timing and size of projects, the amount of such work completed by independent third party integrators and other factors. In addition, since we implement some of our services on a fixed fee basis, if we incur more costs than we expect in implementations, our profitability will suffer.

Revenues for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 included $682,000, $532,000, and $2.2 million, respectively, of payments from cash basis customers. At December 31, 2003 and 2002, we had a balance of $76,000 and $647,000, respectively, for deferred professional services revenues. These deferred revenues, resulting from customer payments in advance of us performing our professional services work, will be recognized as revenue as the related services are provided over the contract period.

Application Management Services Expenses.    Application management services expense consists primarily of personnel costs, depreciation expense, application fees, data center and data communication fees, equipment lease expenses, facilities expense, and outside professional services. Application management services expenses, excluding stock based compensation of $64,000 in 2003, $261,000 in 2002, and $178,000 in 2001, were $47.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $43.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $40.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. From 2002 to 2003, $4.4 million of the $4.7 million expense increase was attributable to the following: a $3.4 million increase in data center fees, a $1.3 million increase in personnel costs, a $486,000 increase in outside contractor expense, a $513,000 increase in depreciation, a $441,000 increase in equipment maintenance expense and a $168,000 increase in rent expense offset by a $834,000 decrease in application fees, a $700,000 decrease in software maintenance and license expense and a $335,000 decrease in equipment lease expense. From 2001 to 2002, $2.3 million of the $2.5 million increase in expenses was attributable to the following: a $3.3 million increase in data center fees, $755,000 increase in outside professional services fees, $758,000 increase in software maintenance expense, $662,000 increase in software license expense, $445,000 increase in equipment repairs and maintenance expense, $190,000 increase in rent expense, and a $790,000 increase in equipment rental expense offset by a $2.2 million reduction in payroll expense due to lower headcount and a $2.4 million reduction in application fees.

Application fees consist of rental license fees paid to independent software vendors such as PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems, plus a reserve established based on a claimed minimum commitment in connection with rental license fees. Application fees were $136,000 in 2003, $970,000 in 2002 and $3.3 million in 2001. The decrease in application fees was due to our decision in mid-2001 to require our new customers to obtain licenses directly from our third party software vendors, rather than through us on a rental basis as well as our loss of customers for whom we were contracted to provide licenses prior to 2001. Furthermore, in 2001 we reserved $1.0 million related to a software vendor's claim that we owed them minimum commitment rental fees even if our rental customer was not using the software or had terminated services. In spite of our decision to cease offering the rental model to new customers, a few legacy rental customers remain whereby the customer pays Corio a monthly rental fee and Corio in turn pays the software vendor a monthly rental fee. Less than 10% of Corio's current customers license pursuant to this rental model and Corio expects these relationships to go away entirely over time.

Professional Services and Other Expenses.    Professional services and other expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, outside professional services, facilities, and travel and related expenses. Professional services and other expenses were $6.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $13.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $16.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. There were no professional services stock based compensation charges in 2003, 2002 or 2001. Of the total professional services expensed, personnel costs were approximately $4.1 million in 2003, $7.2 million in 2002 and $11.2 million in 2001. Fees to subcontractors to perform services under professional services engagements were approximately

$1.7 million in 2003, $3.4 million in 2002 and $2.2 million in 2001. From 2002 to 2003, $6.7 million of the $7.1 million decrease in expense was attributable to the following: a $3.1 million decrease in personnel costs, $724,000 decrease in travel related expenses, a $1.7 million decrease in outside contractor expenses, a $493,000 decrease in facilities expenses and $668,000 due to adjustments to our provision for contract losses. From 2001 to 2002, the $2.7 million decrease in expenses was attributable to a $3.9 million decrease in payroll costs due to lower headcount, offset in part by a $1.2 million increase in subcontractor fees.

Research and Development Expenses.    Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, depreciation and amortization, facilities and outside professional services. Research and development expenses, excluding stock based compensation charges (credits) of $2,000 in 2003, $148,000 in 2002, and ($253,000) in 2001, were $4.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $6.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2002, and $9.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. Research and development expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 7% for 2003, 11% for 2002, and 18% for 2001. Headcount at December 31, 2003 was 26 employees, compared to 33 at December 31, 2002 and 45 at December 31, 2001. From 2002 to 2003, $1.6 million of the $1.7 million decrease in expense was attributable to the following: a $1.2 million decrease in personnel costs, a $142,000 decrease in software license expense and a $307,000 decrease in depreciation expense. From 2001 to 2002, $2.6 million of the $2.8 million decrease in expenses was attributable to a $2.2 million decrease in payroll related costs due to lower headcount and a decreased use of labor from other Company departments as well as a $367,000 decrease in depreciation. As illustrated above, we have significantly reduced research and development expenses over the years 2001, 2002 and 2003. Throughout that period we have reduced headcount related to research and development to achieve cost savings and to bring our costs more in line with our revenues. In early 2002, our research and development team completed development of the initial version of iSRVCE, the software platform designed to facilitate communication between Corio and our customers to facilitate service. iSRVCE has been our research and development team's primary focus. Developing the initial version of iSRVCE was a significant project and, since then, research and development has focused on improving iSRVCE, which is not as large of a task as developing it initially. Based on Corio's expense reduction in the research and development area, our focus on improving iSRVCE, as opposed to developing it or other applications, is manageable given the resource constraints. The significant reduction in funds devoted to research and development over the three year period discussed above, however, has an adverse effect on the new technology Corio can develop.

Sales and Marketing Expenses.    Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, incentive compensation, marketing programs and facilities. Sales and marketing expenses, excluding stock based compensation of $197,000 in 2003, $840,000 in 2002 and $309,000 in 2001, were $8.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $10.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $21.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. Sales and marketing expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 13% for the year ended December 31, 2003, 19% for the year ended December 31, 2002 and 42% for the year ended December 31, 2001. Headcount at December 31, 2003 was 45, compared to 39 at December 31, 2002 and 53 at December 31, 2001. From 2002 to 2003, $1.7 million of the $1.8 million decrease in expenses was attributable to the following: $1.1 million decrease in personnel costs and $622,000 decrease in amortization expense associated with a marketing alliance cost that was fully amortized in April 2002. From 2001 to 2002, $10.1 million of the $11.3 million decrease in expenses was attributable to the following: a $4.6 million decrease in payroll costs due to lower headcount, a $1.7 million decrease in travel related expenses, $614,000 decrease in rent expenses, $1.3 million decrease in marketing program expenses and a $1.9 million decrease in the amortization expense associated with a marketing alliance cost that was fully amortized in April 2002. In addition, sales and marketing expenses included amortization of costs associated with warrants issued to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young of $416,000, $11,000, and $164,000 for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively. As illustrated above, we have significantly reduced our sales and marketing expenses over the years 2001, 2002 and 2003. In addition to reducing headcount significantly, we have ceased entire marketing programs such as advertising in business publications and advertising on billboards. This decrease in marketing expense may adversely affect our ability to ensure potential customers are aware of Corio and may detract from our ability to attract new customers.

General and Administrative Expenses.    General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, outside professional services, depreciation and amortization, facilities and equipment rental. General and administrative expenses include costs related to our internal information technology and systems architecture, accounting and finance, executive management, human resources and legal activities. General and administrative expenses, excluding stock based compensation of $195,000 in 2003, $1.1 million in 2002 and $4.9 million in 2001 were $9.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2003, $11.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $21.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenues were 14% for the year ended December 31, 2003, 21% for the year ended December 31, 2002, and 41% for the year ended December 31, 2001. In addition, the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001 include approximately none, $90,000, and $1.8 million, respectively, of expenses related to amortization of fees paid to a software vendor for a non-competition agreement and preferred partner status. There were 46 general and administrative personnel at December 31, 2003, compared to 45 at December 31, 2002 and 56 at December 31, 2001. From 2002 to 2003, $1.9 million of the $2.2 million decrease in expenses was attributable to the following: a $448,000 decrease in personnel costs, a $389,000 decrease in data communication expense, a $444,000 decrease in rent expense, a $600,000 decrease in equipment lease expense, a $393,000 decrease in depreciation expense and a $174,000 decrease in sales tax expense offset by a $573,000 increase in facilities expense. From 2001 to 2002, $9.0 million of the $9.4 million decrease was attributable to a $4.9 million decrease in payroll costs, $500,000 decrease in subcontractor fees, $602,000 decrease in rent expenses, $824,000 decrease in office expenses, $450,000 decrease in travel expenses and a $1.7 million decrease in amortization of fees paid to a software vendor as noted above.

Restructuring charges.    During fiscal 2003, 2002 and 2001, we recorded restructuring and impairment charges of $2.3 million, $4.0 million and $3.8 million, respectively. In 2003, the Company signed an agreement to sublease the vacated portion of its headquarters facility through the end of its lease, which is March 2010. We adjusted our estimated loss related to the vacated space and recorded an additional restructuring charge of $2.5 million to reflect the terms of the sublease agreement. The impact of this charge was partially offset by the favorable resolution of a liability related to various equipment leases which resulted in a reduction of $139,000 to the previously established restructuring reserve. In 2002, the restructuring and impairment charges included $3,764,000 to record the estimated loss associated with a portion of the remaining lease stream related to the vacated portion of our headquarters and $272,000 for severance benefits paid to 30 employees involuntarily terminated. In 2001, the restructuring and impairment charges included $435,000 for estimated payments for the cancellation of a facility lease contract, $1.2 million for severance benefits paid or to be paid to 179 employees involuntarily terminated, and $2.2 million to write off certain abandoned and excess assets, of which $1.5 million were capital assets.

Amortization of Stock-Based Compensation.    Amortization of deferred stock-based compensation was $458,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003, $2.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $5.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. The deferred charges for employee options are being amortized to expense using the graded vesting approach prescribed by FASB Interpretation No. 28. The decrease for all periods presented was mainly attributed to the impact of the accelerated vesting for options granted prior to our IPO with an exercise price less than the deemed fair value of our common stock. Our remaining deferred compensation balance at December 31, 2003 is $3,000.

Amortization of Other Intangibles.     In 2003, related to our Nexus Technology ("Nexus") acquisition, we recorded an intangible asset of $2.6 million for our acquired application management services and professional services contracts. This intangible asset is being amortized over estimated lives ranging from 4 months to five years. In 2002, related to our Qwest Cyber.Solutions ("QCS") acquisition, we recorded an intangible asset of $2.7 million for our acquired customer contracts. This intangible asset is being amortized over an estimated life of 18 months. The intangible assets were recorded in other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. Amortization of the intangible assets was $1.8 million in 2003 and $497,000 in 2002. No amortization expense related to the Nexus or QCS intangible asset was recorded in 2001 as the acquisitions occurred in 2003 and 2002.

Interest and Other Income and (Expense).    Net interest and other income was $295,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003, $887,000 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $3.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2001. As of December 31, 2003, we had cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and restricted cash totaling $42.7 million, a decrease of $9.0 million from the $51.7 million on hand at December 31, 2002. The decrease in net interest income for the three years was attributable to lower average cash and investment balances as well as lower interest rates and was offset, in part, by a decrease in interest expense due to lower average debt balances.

Income Taxes.    Since inception, we have incurred net losses for federal and state tax purposes, and anticipate losses for the foreseeable future. We have therefore not recognized any material tax provision or benefit for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001. We recognized a $400,000 tax benefit in fiscal 2002 after determining that a deferred tax liability recorded in connection with our acquisition of Data Systems Connectors, Inc. in 1998 was no longer needed due to the completion of a tax examination. As the goodwill related to this acquisition has been fully amortized, the reversal of this exposure item was treated as an income tax benefit.

As of December 31, 2003, we had cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and restricted cash totaling $42.7 million, a decrease of $9.0 million from the $51.7 million on hand at December 31, 2002. The decrease was primarily the result of cash used for purchases of property and equipment, payment of debt obligations and the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Nexus in fiscal 2003. Included in the cash balance is restricted cash of $7.7 million at December 31, 2003 and 2002.

The following table summarizes our cash flows from operating, investing and financing activities:

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Net cash provided by (used in):
    Operating activities.......................... $     2.5  $   (12.1) $   (41.9)
    Investing activities..........................     (10.2)       9.6       27.8
    Financing activities..........................      (3.8)      (6.9)      (8.0)
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Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents.. $   (11.5) $    (9.4) $   (22.1)
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For fiscal 2003, net cash provided by operating activities of $2.5 million was comprised of a net loss of $12.9 million, reduced by $11.2 million of depreciation, $1.8 million of amortization of goodwill and other intangibles, $458,000 of amortization of deferred stock based compensation, a $1.7 million decrease in accounts receivable and prepaid expenses and other current assets and a $1.4 million increase in deferred revenue, and increased by a $2.5 million decrease in accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities.

For fiscal 2002, net cash used in operating activities of $12.1 million was comprised of a net loss of $34.8 million, reduced by $11.5 million of depreciation, $497,000 of amortization of goodwill and other intangibles, $2.3 million of amortization of deferred stock based compensation, a $4.1 million decrease in accounts receivable and prepaid expenses and other current assets and a $3.8 million increase in accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities.

For fiscal 2001, net cash used in operating activities of $41.9 million was comprised of a net loss of $63.9 million, reduced by $14.9 million of depreciation, $564,000 of amortization of goodwill and other intangibles, $5.1 million of amortization of deferred stock based compensation and a $4.0 million decrease in accounts receivable, and increased by a $4.7 million decrease in accounts payable, accrued liabilities and other liabilities.

For fiscal 2003, net cash used in investing activities was $10.2 million. Investing activities consisted of the sale of short-term investments of $46.7 million offset by the purchase of short-term investments of $50.1 million, $1.7 million associated with acquisition costs and $5.4 million for the purchase of equipment.

For fiscal 2002, net cash provided by investing activities was $9.6 million. Investing activities consisted of the sale of short-term investments of $84.8 million offset by the purchase of short-term investments of $60.8 million, $15 million to purchase the application management services business of QCS and $828,000 for the purchase of equipment.

For fiscal 2001, net cash provided by investing activities was $27.8 million. Investing activities consisted of the sale of short-term investments of $114.1 million offset by the purchase of short-term investments of $75.6 million, an increase in restricted cash of $7.8 million and $4.6 million for the purchase of equipment.

For fiscal 2002, net cash used by financing activities was $6.9 million. Financing activities consisted of $7.7 million repayments of equipment lease financing offset by sale of common stock of $793,000.

For fiscal 2001, net cash used by financing activities was $8.0 million. Financing activities consisted of $9.8 million repayments of equipment lease financing offset by sale of common stock of $1.7 million.

On October 22, 2003, the Company completed the purchase of the assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of Nexus Technology, Inc. ("Nexus"). The Company paid Nexus approximately $10.2 million, consisting of $1.9 million in cash and 2,921,390 shares of Corio common stock, including $177,000 related to legal expenses. The shares used as consideration were valued at $2.83 per share, which was the average closing price two days before and after the closing date. In addition, Nexus will be entitled to receive an earn- out payment of up to $2.0 million payable in shares of Corio common stock contingent upon Corio's attainment of specified revenue milestones for the 3- month period ending December 31, 2004 from identified existing and prospective customers of Nexus. The cash portion of the acquisition consideration was paid out of Corio's available working capital. Per the asset purchase agreement, $500,000 of the purchase price was deposited into escrow, to be held as security for a limited period of time for any losses incurred by the Company in the event, among other matters, of any breach by Nexus of the agreements, covenants, representations and warranties it made under or in connection with the purchase agreement.

The following table summarizes our contractual cash obligations at December 31, 2003:

We expect that our current cash balances will be sufficient to meet our cash requirements for at least the next 12 months. However, any major change in the nature of the Company's business, or a significant reduction in demand for its services, the acquisition of products, the need for significant new capital expenditures, or the acquisition of other business, could further utilize the Company's cash reserves. To the extent the Company requires additional cash, there can be no assurances that the Company will be able to obtain such financing on terms favorable to the Company, or at all.

In January 2003, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 46 (revised December 2003 by FIN 46R), Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, which addresses how a business enterprise should evaluate whether it has a controlling financial interest in an entity through means other than voting rights and, accordingly, should consolidate the entity. FIN 46R replaces FASB Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, which was issued in January 2003. We will be required to apply FIN 46R to variable interests in variable interest entities (VIEs) created after December 31, 2003. For variable interests in VIEs created before January 1, 2004, the Interpretation will be applied beginning on January 1, 2005. For any VIEs that must be consolidated under FIN 46R that were created before January 1, 2004, the assets, liabilities and noncontrolling interests of the VIE initially would be measured at their carrying amounts with any difference between the net amount added to the balance sheet and any previously recognized interest being recognized as the cumulative effect of an accounting change. If determining the carrying amounts is not practicable, fair value at the date FIN No. 46R first applies may be used to measure the assets, liabilities and noncontrolling interest of the VIE. The Company believes the adoption of FIN No. 46R will not have a material impact to its financial position, results of operations or cash flows as the Company does not have any VIEs.

In December 2003, the SEC issued SAB 104, Revenue Recognition, (SAB 104) which rescinds and updates SAB 101, Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements. SAB 104's primary purpose is to rescind accounting guidance contained in SAB 101 related to multiple element revenue arrangements, which was superceded as a result of the issuance of EITF 00-21, Accounting for Revenue Arrangements with Multiple Deliverables. While the wording of SAB 104 has changed to reflect the issuance of EITF 00-21, the revenue recognition principles of SAB 101 remain largely unchanged by the issuance of SAB 104. Adoption of this provision did not have an impact in the Company's financial position or results of operations.

We have spent significant funds to date to develop and refine our current services, to create and run our operations organization, to build and run a professional services organization and to develop and run our sales and marketing resources. We have incurred significant operating and net losses and negative cash flow and have not achieved profitability. As of December 31, 2003, we had an accumulated deficit of $260 million.

We expect to continue to invest significantly in our organization to provide services, enhance current services and expand our service offerings. We also may hire additional people in certain areas of our company in order to support our business and promote and sell our services. In addition, we expect to continue to incur significant fixed and other costs associated with customer acquisitions and with the implementation and configuration of software applications, and ongoing services, for customers. As a result of all of these factors, to achieve operating profitability on a consistent basis, excluding non-cash charges, we will need to increase our customer base and number of customers, to increase our revenue, to decrease our overall costs of providing services, including the costs of our licensed technology and our operations and the costs of customer acquisitions. We cannot assure you that we will be able to increase our revenues or increase our operating efficiencies in this manner. Also, we may continue to invest in our business faster than we anticipate growth in our revenues, and we may continue to incur significant losses and negative cash flow for the foreseeable future and we may never be profitable.

A significant portion of our current revenue is derived from technology and middle-market companies. Middle-market companies consist of companies or divisions with annual revenues of between approximately $200 million and $1 billion. Technology and middle-market companies may be more likely to be acquired, experience financial difficulties or cease operations than companies that are larger and better established or are in more stable industries. In particular, technology and middle-market companies may experience difficulties in raising capital needed to fund their operations. As a result, our client base will likely be more volatile than those companies whose customer base consists of more mature and established businesses. Over the past four years we experienced early terminations of customer agreements with approximately one hundred customers, many of which entered into agreements with us in 1999 and 2000 and whose terminations were based on the dot com crash and many of which are no longer in business. We expect additional customer agreements to terminate in the future. If we continue to experience greater than expected customer loss or an inability to collect fees from our customers in a timely manner because of this volatility, our operating results could be seriously harmed.

We have experienced customer attrition in the past and expect to experience it in the future. Historically, we have generated a substantial portion of our revenues from a limited number of customers and we expect that in the future a limited number of customers will continue to account for a substantial portion of our revenues. As a result, if we lose a major customer for any reason, including non-renewal of a customer contract, failure to meet performance requirements, or because of an acquisition or bankruptcy, our revenues could be adversely affected. We may lose customers if they are acquired by a company which does not need access to the kinds of services we provide, either because the acquiring company has in-house capabilities, existing contractual arrangements that preclude them from using our services, or for a variety of other reasons. If we do not grow our revenue, we may never achieve profitability or positive cash flow and therefore the loss of any significant customers could adversely affect our operating results. In addition, our potential customers and investors may perceive any customer loss as a loss of momentum in our business, which may adversely affect future opportunities to sell our products and services and cause our stock price to decline. We cannot be certain that customers that have accounted for significant revenues in past periods will continue to generate revenues in any future period.

For example, one of our customers, Quadrem Hosting Ltd., who represented 11% of total revenues in fiscal 2002, had its contract expire in May 2003. Although Quadrem renewed for a short-term contract, the new contract was for significantly less recurring monthly revenue. In addition, another customer, Expanets, Inc., who accounted for 12% of our total revenue for fiscal 2003, was recently acquired by Avaya Inc. Although we have a long term contract with Expanets that was assumed by Avaya, we are unsure whether Avaya intends to retain our services. Avaya is migrating Expanets's system that we are hosting to Avaya's system and this presents significant risks regarding how long Avaya/Expanets will remain a customer. If we lose Avaya/Expanets as a customer, or any other significant customer, or if a significant customer makes a significant reduction in fees paid to us, and if we are unable to replace this revenue with revenue from new or existing clients, this will have a significant adverse effect on our ability to achieve profitability and positive cash flow.

In the event we decide payment by a customer is no longer reasonably assured then we designate that customer as a "cash basis" customer. Historically we have generated a significant portion of our revenue from payments by cash basis customers. The percentage of our customers designated as cash basis customers as of the end of 2003, 2002 and 2001 was 12%, 29% and 42%, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2003, 2002 and 2001, we recorded revenue of $22.2 million (32% of total revenue), $17.0 million (31% of total revenue) and $16.6 million (32% of total revenue), respectively, related to services provided to cash basis customers. For the 2003 fiscal year we did not recognize approximately $1.4 million in revenue related to services provided during this period due to customers designated as cash basis customers for which we did not receive payment. For 2002, this amount was $3.0 million and for 2001 it was $2.3 million. A significant portion of our customer base remains on a cash basis and we expect to continue to have a significant number of customers on a cash basis going forward. For these customers we are at risk of not receiving payment for services we have already performed. Failure by these customers to pay could decrease revenue and result in Corio having incurred costs to provide services without being compensated for those services, which could adversely affect our ability to become profitable.

We have a limited operating history as a provider of ASP services. We began offering our ASP services in 1998, prior to which time our predecessor company, DSCI, carried on a different business. Because our business model is relatively new, it continues to evolve. In the future, we may revise our pricing model for different services, and our model for our customers to gain access to third party software applications and other third party services has evolved. Additionally, as we attempt to move the focus of our customer base away from smaller companies to larger, more established customers, the demand for our services is uncertain and the sales process takes longer than with smaller customers. Changes in our anticipated business and financial model could materially impact our ability to become profitable in the future.

The ASP market is relatively new and has not yet received universal acceptance by the enterprises we target. An investor in our common stock must consider these facts as well as the risks, uncertainties, expenses and difficulties frequently encountered by companies in their early stages of development, particularly companies in new and rapidly evolving markets such as the market for Internet-based software application services. Some of the risks and difficulties relate to our potential inability to:

We cannot assure you that we will successfully address these risks or difficulties. If we fail to address any of these risks or difficulties adequately, we will likely be unable to execute our business model.

We expend significant sums in order to run our business and to promote future growth in our business, operations, professional services, research and development, and sales and marketing organizations. Although we are monitoring our spending, we expect to continue to expend significant sums on these activities. Because the expenses associated with these activities are relatively fixed in the short-term, we may be unable to adjust spending quickly enough to offset any unexpected shortfall in revenue growth or any decrease in revenue levels. As our operating results fluctuate, they may fall short of the expectations of public market analysts or investors. If this occurs, the price of our common stock may fall.

Our financial results will vary due to factors such as the nature of our services and the timing of payments received from cash basis customers. For individual customers, we may recognize professional services revenues associated with the implementation of our applications during the early months of our engagement. We then recognize monthly fees from these customers, consisting primarily of application management services revenues, over the balance of the contractual relationship. As a result, for some customers we have a high proportion of up-front professional services revenues associated with implementation. We expect that our financial results may continue to vary over time as monthly fees increase as a portion of total revenue. In addition, third parties also provide professional services for some of our application management services customers, and whether professional services will be provided by us or by third parties may be difficult to predict. Changes in our revenue mix from professional services revenues to application management services revenues could be difficult to predict and could cause our quarterly results and stock price to fluctuate.

Other important factors that could cause our quarterly results and stock price to fluctuate materially include:

Our financial results could vary over time as our ASP business and financial models mature and evolve. For example, we historically included a broad range of customer support in our fixed monthly fees but now bill certain customers for support services in excess of specified limits in certain circumstances. As another example, we are increasingly unbundling the cost of software licenses from our fixed monthly fee and requiring our customers to obtain licenses to enterprise software applications directly from third party software providers. Any such changes to our business or financial model would likely cause financial results to vary, which could cause our stock price to fall.

In this regard, from time to time we negotiate with some of our major third party software vendors to modify the pricing and other terms currently in place with these vendors. We may agree to restructure our current arrangements with some of our third party software providers. For example, we are migrating customers, and currently plan to eventually migrate all customers, from a model whereby some rent enterprise application licenses from us to a model whereby they all purchase the licenses directly from independent software vendors. Such pricing structures or business models may not in fact be more beneficial to us and may ultimately hinder our ability to become profitable.

We offer our customers software application services for applications from third parties such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Ariba and Siebel Systems. We have agreements in place with certain of our third party software vendors, and our agreements with third party software vendors are non- exclusive, are for limited terms and typically permit termination in the event of our breach of the agreements. Additionally, as we move more to "host- only" relationships, whereby our customers must obtain licenses directly from independent software vendors such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, SAP, Ariba and Siebel, we may rely on the independent software vendors to consent to allow us to access the software to provide our services. If we lose the right to host the software from third party software vendors, if the cost of licensing the software applications becomes prohibitive, or if we change the vendors from whom we currently license software, our business and our customers' businesses could be significantly disrupted, which could harm our revenues and increase our costs. Our financial results may also be harmed if the cost structure we negotiate in the future with the third party software vendors changes in a manner that is less beneficial to us compared to our current cost structure with software vendors. We cannot assure you that our services will continue to support the software of our third party vendors, or that we will be able to adapt our own offerings to changes in third party software. In addition, if our vendors were to experience financial or other difficulties, it could adversely affect the availability of their software. It is also possible that improvements in software by third parties with whom we have no relationship could render the software we offer to our customers less compelling or obsolete.

The licenses we have for the third party software for which we provide hosting or application management services typically restrict our ability to sell our services in specified countries and to customers with revenue above or below specified revenue levels. For example, one of our licenses restricts us from selling our services to customers with annual revenues greater than various levels such as $1 billion, and restricts our ability to sell to customers outside of North America. In addition, some of these licenses contain limits on our ability to sell our services to certain types of customers. Our operating results and ability to grow could be harmed to the extent these licenses prohibit us from selling our services to customers to which we would otherwise sell our services, or in countries in which we would otherwise sell our services.

Our customers depend on our hosted software applications for their critical systems and business functions, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and e-commerce. Our customers' businesses could be seriously harmed if the applications we provide to them work improperly or fail, even if only temporarily. Accordingly, if the software that we license from our vendors or our implementation or ongoing management of such software performs poorly, experiences errors or defects or is otherwise unreliable, our customers would likely be extremely dissatisfied, which could cause our reputation to suffer, force us to divert research and development and management resources, cause a loss of revenues or hinder market acceptance of our services. It is also possible that any customer disruptions resulting from failures in our applications could force us to refund all or a portion of the fees customers have paid for our services or result in other significant liabilities to our customers.

Implementations and management of enterprise software applications are very complex. We cannot assure you that we can convince customers that we have the requisite expertise required to implement, host or manage these applications. Our reputation will be harmed and sales of our services would decline significantly if we are not able to complete successfully repeated implementations of our enterprise software applications or if we are not able to successfully manage enterprise applications, including those applications with which we have limited or no implementation, hosting or management experience to date.

A failure to maintain and expand relationships with third party systems integrators that we use to implement our services could harm our ability to service our customers effectively. As we seek to provide applications management services for larger, more established customers, they may frequently utilize the systems integration and consulting services of independent, third party systems integrators rather than Corio. In such cases, we may receive only modest revenue for implementation and integration services if any. In addition, we frequently contract with our customers for implementation on a fixed price basis. As a result, unexpected complexities in implementing software applications for our customers could result in unexpected losses for us or increases in losses. Our business and reputation could also be seriously harmed if third party systems integrators were unable to perform their services for our customers in a manner that meets customer expectations.

Companies may prefer more customized applications and services than our business model contemplates. Most of our customers have required some level of customization of our services, and our customers may continue to require customization in the future, perhaps to a greater extent than we currently provide or anticipate. If we do not offer the desired customization, there may be less demand for our services. Conversely, providing customization of our services increases our costs and reduces our flexibility to provide similar services to many customers. Accordingly, increased demand for customization of our services could reduce the scalability and profitability of our business and increase risks associated with completing software upgrades.

Growth could strain our operations and require us to incur costs to upgrade our infrastructure and expand our personnel. If our customer base grows significantly, we cannot be sure that we will successfully manage our growth. In order to manage any such growth successfully, we must:

Any failure to effectively meet the above requirements could adversely affect our business. In addition, if our customer base grows significantly, there will be additional demands on our customer service support, research and development, sales and marketing and administrative resources as we try to increase our service offerings and expand our target markets. Any delay in the implementation of, or disruption in the transition to, new or enhanced systems and controls could harm our ability to accurately forecast demand for our services, manage our billing of customers, manage our sales cycle and implementation services and record and report management and financial information on a timely and accurate basis. Moreover, any inability to expand our service offerings and employee base commensurate with any increase in the demand for our services could cause our revenues to decline.

Our software vendors from time to time will upgrade their software applications, and at such time we will be required to implement these software upgrades for certain of our customers. Implementing software upgrades can be a complicated and costly process, particularly implementation of an upgrade simultaneously across multiple customers. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will be able to perform these upgrades successfully or at a reasonable cost. We may also experience difficulty implementing software upgrades to a large number of customers, particularly if different software vendors release upgrades simultaneously. If we are unable to perform software upgrades successfully and to a large customer base, our customers could be subject to increased risk of interruptions or errors in their business-critical software, our reputation and business would likely suffer and the market would likely delay the acceptance of our services. It will also be difficult for us to predict the timing of these upgrades, the cost to us of these upgrades and the additional resources that we may need to implement these upgrades. Additionally, as we continue to evolve our business model to charge customers for the cost of software upgrades, we may lose prospective customers who choose not to pay for these upgrades. Therefore, any such upgrades could strain our development and engineering resources, require significant unexpected expenses and cause us to miss our financial forecasts or those of securities analysts. Any of these problems could impair our customer relations and our reputation and subject us to litigation.

Our services involve the storage and transmission of business-critical, proprietary information, and security breaches could expose us to a risk of loss of this information, litigation and possible liability. Anyone who circumvents our security measures could misappropriate business- critical proprietary information or cause interruptions in our services or operations. In addition, computer "hackers" could introduce computer viruses into our systems or those of our customers, which could disrupt our services or make them inaccessible to customers. We may be required to expend significant capital and other resources to protect against the threat of security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by breaches. Our security measures may be inadequate to prevent security breaches, and our business and reputation would be harmed if we do not prevent them.

The markets we serve are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, emerging competition and the frequent introduction of new services, software and other products. We cannot assure you that we will be able to enhance existing or develop new services that meet changing customer needs in a timely and cost-effective manner. For example, as software application architecture changes, the software for which we provide services could become out of date or obsolete and we may be forced to upgrade or replace our technology. For example, this is of particular concern with regard to our enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software, including PeopleSoft, Oracle and SAP. The architecture of the software we currently use for ERP applications is not designed to be hosted. We believe that future software may be written to be hosted. Our existing software application providers may face competition from new vendors who have written hostable software. It may be difficult for us to acquire hostable ERP software from these new vendors and for our software application providers to develop this software quickly or successfully. In either event, the services we offer would likely become less attractive to our customers, which could cause us to lose revenue and market share. Performing upgrades may also require substantial time and expense and even then we cannot be sure that we will succeed in adapting our business to these technological developments. Prolonged delays resulting from our efforts to adapt to rapid technological change, even if ultimately successful, could harm our reputation within our industry and our ability to grow our revenues.

We enter into agreements with our customers to provide application management services for long periods, typically three years. Most of these agreements are in the form of fixed-price contracts that do not provide for price adjustments to reflect any cost overruns associated with providing our services, such as potential increases in the costs of software applications we license from third parties, and the costs of upgrades or inflation. As a result, unless we are able to provide our services in a more cost-effective manner than we do today and unless the number of users at individual customers increases to provide us higher revenue levels per customer, we may never achieve profitability for a particular customer. In addition, customers may not be able to pay us or may cancel our services before becoming profitable for us.

Our business is relatively new and, accordingly, our business and financial models may evolve as the understanding of our business evolves. We may be unable to adjust our pricing or cost structure with respect to our current customers in response to changes we make in our business or financial model due to the long-term, fixed price nature of the application management agreements we have with our customers. This potential inflexibility may hurt our ability to become profitable.

Customers often request reductions in pricing upon contracts coming up for renewal and sometimes even prior to renewal. We have accommodated some of these requests in the past and may accommodate others in the future. As information technology services evolve we have noted that customers expect these services to be provided on a more efficient and cost-effective basis. We may not be able to increase efficiencies so as to maintain current profit margins on an individual customer basis, taking into account such reduced revenue. The downward pressure on pricing may result in decreased revenues and may make it difficult for us to become profitable.

The FASB and various legislative proposals have proposed changes to GAAP that may require us to adopt a different method of determining the compensation expense for our employee stock options. We currently use the intrinsic value method to measure compensation expense for stock-based awards to our employees. Under this standard, we generally do not consider stock option grants issued under our employee stock option plans to be compensation when the exercise price of the stock option is equal to the fair market value on the date of grant. If any change to GAAP is adopted that requires us to adopt a different method of determining the compensation expense for our employee stock options, our reported results of operations may be adversely affected.

In response to the difficult business environment and in order to try to bring our cost structure more in line with our revenues, we have been focusing on reducing our costs for some time. We have attempted to do this in a way that permits us to continue to provide excellent levels of service for customers, focusing on reducing costs by automating services, negotiating with vendors and headcount reductions in areas that have less direct impact on customers. We have significantly reduced our marketing expenses and this may adversely affect our ability to attract new customers and to increase our revenues. We have also significantly reduced our research and development expenses and this may adversely affect our ability to develop new technology, although we have attempted to augment our research and development capabilities through less expensive means such as through our Indian subsidiary.

Our application management services contracts contain service level guarantees that obligate us to provide our applications at a guaranteed level of performance. If we fail to meet those service levels, we may be contractually obligated to provide our customers credit for free service. If we were to continue to fail to meet these service levels, our customers would then have the right to cancel their contracts with us. These credits or cancellations could harm our reputation and hinder our ability to grow our revenues.

Part of our strategy may be to expand our services by offering our customers services related to additional software applications that address their evolving business needs. We cannot be sure, however, that we will be able to license these applications at a commercially viable cost or at all or that we will be able to cost-effectively develop the applications in-house. If we cannot obtain these applications on a cost-effective basis or otherwise cannot effectively expand our service offering and, as a result, cannot expand the range of our service offerings, the market for our services may not grow and may decline, and sales of our services may suffer.

The market for our services is extremely competitive and the barriers to entry in our market are relatively low. We currently have no patented technology that would bar competitors from our market.

Our current and potential competitors primarily include:

• application service providers and business process outsourcers, such as Appshop, Bluestar Solutions, CSC, Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM Global Services, Surebridge and USinternetworking;
• systems integrators, such as Accenture and Bearing Point;
• offshore providers such as Wipro, Tata and Infosys;
• software vendors, such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Ariba and Siebel Systems; and
• major technology providers, such as Microsoft.

Many of our competitors and potential competitors have substantially greater financial, customer support, technical and marketing resources, larger customer bases, longer operating histories, greater name recognition and more established relationships in the industry than we do. We cannot be sure that we will have the resources or expertise to compete successfully in the future. Our competitors may be able to:

• develop and expand their network infrastructures and service offerings more quickly;
• adapt to new or emerging technologies and changing customer needs faster;
• take advantage of acquisitions and other opportunities more readily;
• negotiate more favorable agreements with software application vendors;
• devote greater resources to the marketing and sale of their products; and
• address customers' service-related issues more effectively.

Some of our competitors may also be able to provide customers with additional benefits at lower overall costs or to reduce their application service charges aggressively in an effort to increase market share. We cannot be sure that we will be able to match cost reductions by our competitors.

Our competitors and other companies may form strategic relationships with each other to compete with us. These relationships may take the form of strategic investments, joint-marketing agreements, licenses or other contractual arrangements, which arrangements may increase our competitors' ability to address customer needs with their product and service offerings. We believe that there is likely to be consolidation in our markets, which could lead to increased price competition and other forms of competition that could cause our business to suffer.

We depend on third parties, such as XO Communications, Qwest and (i)Structure, for our data center management services and for key components of our network infrastructure. Our contracts with these data center and network infrastructure providers are for a fixed term and for a specified amount of services, which may be insufficient to meet our needs. The services we provide could be materially disrupted by any disruption in the services provided by our data center management service providers. For example, downtime caused by our data center providers could materially disrupt our services, and, in the event any of these data center providers terminate or decline to renew their contracts with us, we could experience significant disruption and costs related to migrating customers to a different data center. We depend on suppliers such as Sun Microsystems for our computer hardware and WebMethods and Netegrity and others for our software technology platform. If any of these relationships fail to provide needed products or services in a timely and consistent manner or at an acceptable cost, we may be unable to deliver our services to our customers in an effective manner and these customers may terminate their contracts with us as a result or demand credits against fees. Some of the key components of our infrastructure are available only from sole or limited sources in the quantity and quality we demand. We do not carry significant inventories of those components that we obtain from third parties and have no guaranteed supply arrangements for some of these components. Additionally, some of our service and product providers have recently experienced financial difficulty, and financial problems they experience may cause disruptions in our service, loss of customers and expose us to additional costs.

Our operations depend upon our ability and the ability of our third party data center and network services providers to maintain and protect the computer systems on which we host our customers' applications. Any loss of customer data or an inability to provide service for a period of time could cause us to lose our customers and subject us to significant potential liabilities. We currently use six data center providers to house our hardware and to provide network services, but most of our customers are serviced at a single site. While our data center and network providers maintain back-up systems and we have disaster recovery processes, a natural disaster or other disruption at their site could impair our ability to provide our services to our customers until the site is repaired or back-up systems become operable. Some of our data center providers, as well as our corporate headquarters, are located in Northern California, near known earthquake fault zones. Our systems and the data centers are also vulnerable to damage from fire, flood, power loss, telecommunications failures, terrorist attacks and similar events.

Our future success depends upon the continued service of our executive officers and other key personnel. None of our executive officers or key employees is bound by an employment agreement for any specific term. Key personnel may voluntarily terminate due to various reasons. If we lose the services of one or more of our executive officers or key employees, or if one or more of them decides to join a competitor or otherwise compete directly or indirectly with us, we may not be able to successfully manage our business or achieve our business objectives.

In the future, we may expand our sales, operations and marketing efforts in order to try to increase market awareness and sales of our services. We may also need to increase our technical staff in order to service customers and perform research and development. There is competition for qualified and effective sales, marketing, technical and operations personnel as these personnel are in limited supply and in high demand and we might not be able to hire and retain sufficient numbers of these personnel to grow our business or to service our customers effectively. Also, past reductions in our workforce, although designed to not affect service levels and demand generation, may adversely affect these areas of our business.

In October 2003 we acquired substantially all of the assets of Nexus Technology, Inc. as part of our efforts to expand our applications management business and product offerings. The rationale for the asset purchase was to expand Corio's customer base and expertise in the SAP market space. SAP AG is a significant software vendor, providing enterprise resource planning and e-commerce software for businesses. We expect Corio's overall revenues in this market space to grow as a result of the asset purchase, however, we may experience difficulties in achieving and may never fully realize this anticipated benefit. Potential risks with this acquisition include, among others:

In the event we are unable to retain Nexus Technology's SAP customers or use this acquisition as a basis for expanding our customer base in the SAP market, or in the event the risks identified above lead to increased costs or a loss of benefits from the acquisition then we may never achieve the anticipated benefits of this acquisition and this will adversely impact our operating results. In addition, Corio has an obligation to issue additional shares of common stock to Nexus Technology in the event Corio attains specified revenue milestones for the 3-month period ending December 31, 2004. Any such issuance would dilute our existing stockholders and increase the costs of the acquisition.

In September 2002 and October 2003, we completed the acquisition of the ASP assets of Qwest Cyber Solutions LLC and Nexus Technology, Inc., respectively. The integration of the ASP assets of Qwest Cyber Solutions and Nexus Technology into our business is ongoing, and we may experience related disruptions and distractions as well as unexpected costs. We have lost, and may continue to lose, customers acquired from Qwest Cyber Solutions, and we may experience similar losses of customers acquired from Nexus Technology.

We expect that further consolidation in our industry may occur. We may acquire or make investments in additional complementary businesses, technologies or services if appropriate opportunities arise. From time to time we may engage in discussions and negotiations with companies regarding acquiring or investing in their businesses, technologies or services. We cannot make assurances that we will be able to identify suitable acquisition or investment candidates, or that if we do identify suitable candidates, we will be able to make the acquisitions or investments on commercially acceptable terms or at all. If we acquire or invest in another company, we could have difficulty assimilating that company's personnel, customers, operations, technology or products and service offerings. In addition, the key personnel of the acquired company may decide not to work for us. These difficulties could disrupt our ongoing business, distract our management and employees, cause customer loss, increase our expenses and adversely affect our results of operations. Furthermore, we may incur indebtedness or issue equity securities to pay for any future acquisitions. The issuance of equity or convertible debt securities could be dilutive to our existing stockholders.

We cannot assure you that we will be able to protect or maintain our intellectual property from infringement or misappropriation from others. In particular, our business would be harmed if we were unable to protect our technology platform and processes, our trademarks or our other software and confidential and proprietary information. Agreements on which we rely to protect our intellectual property rights and the trade secret, copyright and other laws on which we rely may only afford limited protection to these rights. In addition, we currently have no patents issued, which limits significantly our ability to protect our proprietary rights in the event they are infringed. Any infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property could reduce our competitive advantage, divert management attention, require us to develop technology and cause us to incur expenses to enforce our rights.

If the number of software applications used by us and our customers increases and the functionality of these products further overlaps and integrates, software industry participants may become increasingly subject to infringement claims. In addition, we have agreed, and may agree in the future, to indemnify some of our customers against claims that our services infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others. Someone may claim that our technology or the applications or services we offer infringes their proprietary rights. Someone may also claim that we do not have adequate licenses to perform the services we offer. Any infringement claims, even if without merit, can be time consuming and expensive to defend, may divert management's attention and resources and could cause service delays. Such claims could require us to enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements. If successful, a claim of infringement against us and our inability to modify or license the infringed or similar technology could adversely affect our business. In addition, if our software vendors cease to offer their software applications to us because of infringement claims against us or them, we would be forced to license different software applications to our customers that may not meet our customers' needs. This could result in a loss of customers and a decline in our revenues.

In November 2001, a securities class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Corio, certain of its officers and certain of the underwriters involved in Corio's initial public offering. This is one of approximately 300 similar lawsuits in a coordinated proceeding sometimes referred to as "IPO allocation lawsuits" or "laddering lawsuits." In June 2003, the plaintiffs in these cases presented a settlement proposal to all of the issuer defendants. Under the proposed settlement, the plaintiffs proposed to dismiss and release all claims against participating defendants in exchange for a contingent payment guaranty by the insurance companies collectively responsible for insuring the issuers in all the related cases, and the assignment or surrender to the plaintiffs of certain claims the issuer defendants may have against the underwriters. Under the guaranty, the insurers or companies will be required to pay the amount, if any, by which $1 billion exceeds the aggregate amount ultimately collected by the plaintiffs from the underwriter defendants in all the cases. If the plaintiffs fail to recover $1 billion and payment is required under the guaranty, Corio would be responsible to pay its pro rata portion of the shortfall, up to the amount of the self-insured retention under its insurance policy, which is $1 million. In July 2003, Corio tentatively agreed to accept this settlement proposal. The settlement is subject to acceptance by a substantial majority of the issuer defendants and execution of a definitive settlement agreement. The settlement is also subject to approval by the Court, which cannot be assured. If the settlement is not accepted by the requisite number of defendants or if it is not approved by the Court or if it otherwise is not consummated, Corio intends to defend the lawsuit vigorously. However, the litigation is in the preliminary stage, and we cannot predict its outcome. The litigation process is inherently uncertain. If the outcome of the litigation is adverse to us and if we are required to pay significant monetary damages, our business would be significantly harmed. This lawsuit may be time consuming and expensive to defend and may divert management's attention and may be costly to Corio even if the plaintiff's settlement proposal is consummated.

Growth in demand for and acceptance of ASPs and their hosted business software applications is highly uncertain. This is especially true given the uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment. Companies in the ASP industry, such as Pandesic and Red Gorilla and others, have ceased operations. Other companies in the ASP industry, such as USinternetworking, have filed for bankruptcy. We cannot assure you that this market will remain viable or, if it becomes viable, that it will grow at a rate that will allow us to achieve profitability. The market for Internet services, private network management solutions and widely distributed Internet-enabled application software has only recently begun to develop and is now evolving rapidly. We believe that many of our potential customers are not fully aware of the benefits of hosted and managed solutions. It is possible that these solutions will never achieve market acceptance. It is also possible that potential customers will decide that the risks associated with hiring ASPs in general (or smaller service providers in particular) to implement and manage their critical systems and business functions outweigh the efficiencies associated with the products and services we provide. Concerns over transaction security and user privacy, inadequate network infrastructure for the entire Internet and inconsistent performance of the Internet and the financial viability of ASPs could also limit the growth of Internet-based business software solutions.

We offer our suite of software applications over networks, which subject us to government regulation concerning Internet usage and electronic commerce. We expect that state, federal and foreign agencies will adopt and modify regulations covering issues such as user and data privacy, pricing, taxation of goods and services provided over the Internet, the use and export of cryptographic technology and content and quality of products and services. It is possible that legislation could expose us and other companies involved in electronic commerce to liability or require permits or other authorizations, which could limit the growth of electronic commerce generally. Legislation could dampen the growth in Internet usage and decrease its acceptance as a communications and commercial medium. If enacted, these laws, rules or regulations could limit the market for or make it more difficult to offer our services.

The taxation of commerce activities in connection with the Internet has not been established, may change in the future and may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. One or more states or countries may seek to impose sales or other taxes on companies that engage in or facilitate electronic commerce. A number of proposals have been made at the local, state, national and international levels that would impose additional taxes on the sale of products and services over the Internet. These proposals, if adopted, could substantially impair the growth of electronic commerce and could subject us to taxation relating to our use of the Internet as a means of delivering our services. Moreover, if any state or country were to assert successfully that we should collect sales or other taxes on the exchange of products and services over the Internet, our customers may refuse to continue using our services, which could cause our revenues to decline significantly.

We have customers with international operations, have established a subsidiary in India, and may expand our business outside of the United States in the future. Conducting our business in international markets is subject to complexities associated with foreign operations and to additional risks related to our business, including the possibility that the scarcity of cost-effective, high-speed Internet access and the slow pace of future improvements in access to the Internet will limit the market for hosting software applications over the Internet or adversely affect the delivery of our services to customers. Additionally, some countries outside of the United States do not permit hosting applications on behalf of companies. The European Union has adopted a privacy directive that regulates the collection and use of information. This directive may inhibit or prohibit the collection and sharing of personal information in ways that could harm us. The globalization of Internet commerce may be harmed by these and similar regulations since the European Union privacy directive prohibits transmission of personal information outside the European Union unless the receiving country has enacted individual privacy protection laws at least as strong as those enacted by the European Union privacy directive.

Because of the economic downturn and political environment, many industries have delayed or reduced technology expenditures. If this trend continues, we may fall short of our revenue expectations, and ultimately may fail to achieve profitability. Moreover, weakness in the technology sector as a whole could negatively affect the cash flow of some of our customers, which in turn could impact their ability to meet their obligations to us as they come due. This could increase our credit risk exposure and harm our overall financial position.

In addition, global and domestic political conditions, terrorist acts, or acts of war (wherever located in the world) may damage or disrupt global and domestic markets and negatively affect our business, employees, customers, and suppliers, which in turn could have an adverse effect on our operations and our overall profitability.

The stock market has experienced significant price and trading volume fluctuations, and the market prices of technology companies generally, and Internet-related software companies particularly, have been volatile. The market prices of technology companies generally, and technology service companies in particular, have been subject to significant downward pressure. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a public company's securities, securities class action litigation has often been instituted against that company. Such litigation could result in substantial costs to us and a diversion of our management's attention and resources.

Our executive officers, directors and entities affiliated with them, in the aggregate, beneficially own approximately 39% of our common stock as of December 31, 2003. If they were to act together, these stockholders would be able to exercise control over most matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions. This concentration of ownership may also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of our company, which could cause our stock price to drop. These actions may be taken even if they are opposed by the other investors, including those who purchased shares in the initial public offering.

Provisions of Delaware law, our certificate of incorporation, bylaws and contracts could delay, defer or prevent an acquisition or change of control of us, even if an acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders, and this could adversely affect the price of our common stock.

Additional provisions of our certificate of incorporation that may serve to delay or prevent an acquisition include a staggered board, advance notice procedures for stockholders to nominate candidates for election as directors, authorization of our board to alter the number of directors without stockholder approval and lack of cumulative voting. 

We develop and market our services primarily in the United States. As we expand our operations outside of the United States, our financial results could be affected by factors such as changes in foreign currency rates or weak economic conditions in foreign markets. Because all of our revenues are currently denominated in U.S. dollars, a strengthening of the dollar could make our services less competitive in international markets.

The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve principal while at the same time maximize the income we receive from our investments without significantly increasing risk. Some of the securities that we have invested in may be subject to market risk. This means that a change in prevailing interest rates may cause the principal amount of the investment to fluctuate. For example, if we hold a security that was issued with a fixed interest rate at the then-prevailing interest rate and the prevailing interest rate later rises, the fair value amount of our investment will probably decline. To minimize this risk, we maintain our portfolio of cash equivalents and short- term investments in a variety of securities, including Government Securities, Commercial Paper, Corporate Bonds and money market funds. In general, money market funds are not subject to market risk because the interest paid on such funds fluctuates with the prevailing interest rate. The following table presents the amounts of our cash equivalents and short-term investments that are subject to market risk by range of expected maturity and weighted-average interest rates as of December 31, 2003. This table does not include money market funds because those funds are not subject to market risk.

                                                                 Maturing in
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                                                                               Between
                                                          Three months     Three months and
                                                             or less       Seventeen months
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December 31, 2003 (in thousands, except percentages):
Included in cash and cash equivalents.................. $         6,117   $            --
Weighted average interest rate.........................            1.12 %              --
Included in short-term investments..................... $         3,514   $        16,077
Weighted average interest rate.........................            1.16 %            1.36 %

The Company's consolidated financial statements, together with related notes and the report of KPMG LLP, the Company's independent auditors, are set forth on the pages indicated in Item 15.

None.

Our management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms.

There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Certain information required by Part III is omitted from this report because the Registrant will file a definitive proxy statement within 120 days after the end of its fiscal year pursuant to Regulation 14A for its annual meeting of stockholders to be held May 12, 2004 and the information included therein is incorporated herein by reference to the extent detailed below.

The information concerning our directors required by this Item is incorporated by reference under the caption "Election of Directors" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statements.

Our Company's audit committee currently consists of Aneel Bhusri, Glenn Marschel and George Still. Our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Still qualifies as an "Audit Committee Financial Expert" as defined in the instructions to Regulation S-K, Section 401(h).

Our Board of Directors has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that is applicable to all of our employees, officers and directors, including our senior executive and financial officers. This Code is intended to deter wrongdoing and promote ethical conduct among our directors, executive officers and employees. The Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is available on our corporate website. We intend to post amendments to or waivers from the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics on our website or as otherwise required by the rules of the NASDAQ National Market.

The following table sets forth certain information concerning our executive officers:

George Kadifa has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and as a director since August 1999. Prior to joining us, from August 1992 to August 1999, Mr. Kadifa was Group Vice President and later Senior Vice President of Industrial Sector Worldwide at Oracle Corporation, a supplier of software for information management. Mr. Kadifa holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Brett White has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since October 2002. Prior to joining us, Mr. White served as Chief Financial Officer of KANA Software, Inc., a leading provider of customer relationship management software solutions, from May 2001 to May 2002. Mr. White served in an executive finance role at marchFIRST (formerly

USWeb/CKS) from February 1999 to February 2001 and served in various senior finance roles at Oracle Corporation, from April 1989 to February 1999, most recently as Vice President of Finance, Worldwide Services. Mr. White holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Sal Jamil has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2002 and, prior to that, served as the Vice President in charge of Professional Services since September 1999. Prior to joining us, from June 1993 to August 1999, Mr. Jamil served as Group Vice President at Oracle Corporation, a supplier of software for information management. Mr. Jamil holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University, a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

John B. Ottman has served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Markets since December 1999. Prior to joining us, from November 1989 to November 1999, Mr. Ottman held various key management positions at Oracle Corporation, most recently as Group Vice President of the Industrial Sector, managing Oracle's sales of enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and Internet procurement software to the high tech, automotive, aerospace and defense industries. Mr. Ottman's other management positions at Oracle included Vice President, Global Alliances, Regional Manager and Area Manager. Mr. Ottman holds a B.A. in History from Denison University.

Parmeet Chaddha has served as our Senior Vice President, Corio Technologies since January 2001. Prior to joining us, from June 1999 to December 2000, Mr. Chaddha served as co-founder and Chief Information Officer at MarketMakers, Inc., a private company providing online marketing services. From September 1995 to November 1998, Mr. Chaddha served as founder and President of Zanza Software, Inc., a web based business intelligence company. Mr. Chaddha holds a M.S. and B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Arthur Chiang has served as our Senior Vice President, Corporate Development since July 2000 and, prior to that, served as Senior Vice President, Operations from March 2000 to July 2000 and as Vice President, Industry Solutions from August 1999 to March 2000. Prior to joining us, from August 1997 to August 1999, Mr. Chiang served as Vice President, Worldwide Professional Services at BEA Systems, an application infrastructure company. Mr. Chiang holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Additional information required by Item 401 of Regulation S-K with respect to the executive officers of the Company is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption "Management" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

Information with respect to certain corporate governance matters is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption "Corporate Governance" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

Information required by Item 405 of Regulation S-K is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption "Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption "Executive Compensation and Other Information" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption "Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management" and "Equity Compensation Plan Information" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the information under the caption "Certain Relationships and Related Transactions" in the Registrant's 2004 Proxy Statement.

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders
of Corio, Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Corio, Inc. and its subsidiary (the "Company") as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders' equity and comprehensive loss and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2003. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the consolidated financial statement schedule, as listed in Item 15(a)(2). These consolidated financial statements and consolidated financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and the related consolidated financial statement schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Corio Inc. and its subsidiary as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the results of its operations and cash flows for each of the years in the three- year period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, the related consolidated financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting for goodwill and other acquired intangible assets in 2002.