March 4, 1999

ChainLink Networking Solutions, Inc.
11012 Burywood Lane
Reston, VA 20194-1408

Dear Micheal and Sounia:

I wish to express my gratitude for the excellent work ChainLink Networking Solutions accomplished during your recent contract with the Seattle Times. The entire New Media team is of a single mind about how productive, pleasant and rewarding our relationship has been.

I have never worked with a consulting company that was as professional and helpful as ChainLink. Our aggressive-timeline Auto Guide product was on time, within budget, and very well received. That success was due in large part to your timely delivery of solid code, your on-staff engineers, and your pleasant nature. We also greatly benefited from Sounia's expert timeline, task and budgetary management and her excellent communication skills.

Any project that stays within budget (even though we were guilty of feature-creep), works even better than we had hoped and has left everyone eager to do new projects with your company must be counted a singular success.

We look forward to future projects with chainlink Networking Solutions, and we know you will continue to help us achieve our goals.

Sincerely,


Dave Wagner
Manager of Technology and Operations