Partner Press Release
Solectron Embraces RosettaNet to Drive Universal Standards for Electronic Commerce

Consortium Aims to Reduce Time, Cost, Inefficiencies Through Uniformity and Use of Internet

For Release June 9, 1999

Milpitas, CA -- Solectron Corporation (NYSE: SLR), a worldwide provider of customized electronics manufacturing solutions to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), today announced that it is participating with more than 40 other leading high-tech companies in RosettaNet, a consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic commerce interfaces. RosettaNet seeks to enhance efficiency in the IT supply chain, enabling businesses to operate more effectively and allowing the IT industry to serve its customers better.

RosettaNet is the product of a mandate from the IT industry to establish global business process standards for an IT supply chain involving manufacturers, distributors, resellers and end users, with support from system architects and solution providers. The consortium's goal is to define and lead the implementation of open and common processes - an "infostructure" - designed to align the electronic business interfaces between IT supply-chain partners. By focusing on the alignment of interfaces, RosettaNet does not impose a specific business model within any one supply-chain partner, but improves the processes among all supply-chain partners.

"Solectron believes that the RosettaNet business process standards will not only help streamline communications with our suppliersand customers but will also significantly reduce the time to establish and evolve efficient networks," says Ken Ouchi, Solectron's chief information officer. "Solectron is always looking for ways to squeeze time out of the supply chain. With the RosettaNet initiative, we will be better able to improve electronic commerce links throughout the supply chain and enable our customers to shorten their product development cycle time, get their products to market faster and minimize their costs.

The lack of effective electronic business interfaces in the IT supply chain puts a burden on manufacturers, distributors, resellers and users, and creates inefficiencies that limit the ability to leverage the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool. With the success of RosettaNet, more than half of the electronic industry will use common Internet standards. This will establish a critical mass that will encourage the remaining companies to bring their business systems into compliance, which will in turn create a universal standard."

Currently, 34 CEOs, CIOs and executives have chosen to participate on the RosettaNet managing board and represent global members of the IT supply chain including: American Express, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, CHS Electronics, Cisco Systems, CompUSA, Compaq, Computacenter, Deutsche Financial Services, EDS, Federal Express, GE Information Services, GSA, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Inacom, Ingram Micro Inc., Insight, Intel, Marshall Industries, Microage, Microsoft, Netscape, NEC Technologies, Office Depot, Oracle, pcOrder, SAP AG, Siemens, Solectron, Tech Data, 3Com, Toshiba Information Systems and United Parcel Service.

About RosettaNet
Founded in 1998, RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic commerce interfaces to align the processes between IT supply-chain partners on a global basis. RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.

About Solectron
Founded in 1977, Solectron Corporation (www.solectron.com) provides integrated solutions that span the entire product life cycle - from pre-production planning and design, to manufacturing, distribution, and end-of-life product service and support - for the world's leading electronics OEMs. Solectron offers its customers competitive outsourcing advantages such as access to advanced manufacturing technologies, shortened product time-to-market, reduced cost of production and more effective asset utilization.

The company has received 200 quality and service awards from its customers in addition to the 1997 and 1991 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards. Solectron is the first company to win the Baldrige Award for Manufacturing twice in the 11-year history of the national program. The company has more than 31,000 associates in 21 manufacturing facilities worldwide with 7 million square feet of capacity. Revenues for the first six months of fiscal 1999, ended February 26, were US$3.85 billion.