Engineers Joked That Enron Broadband Software Was "pixie Dust," Witness Says

HOUSTON (AP) - Enron Corp. engineers jokingly called software that was purported to make the company's broadband network work better and faster than any other "the secret sauce or pixie dust," a former employee testified Wednesday at the trial of five former executives of the failed Internet venture.

"It was referred to as the secret sauce or pixie dust," former director of product engineering Shawna Meyer told jurors. She said staffers would make fun of it, saying, "sprinkle it around or add some secret sauce to the network and it would solve all the problems that we had."
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