Partner Press Release
KPMG To Help Implement RosettaNet's New EConcert Global Initiative To Improve It Supply Chain Efficiency

For Release June 9, 1999

Montvale, NJ -- KPMG LLP, a leading professional services firm, today announced that it will play a key role as an Execution Partner in helping to implement RosettaNet's new eConcert initiative to advance IT supply chain interaction worldwide.

RosettaNet is a global consortium supported by the computer industry to establish business process standards for a PC supply chain involving manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and end-users. Board members represent 34 companies that generate more than half of the PC sector's $7 billion in annual revenues. In a separate announcement today, RosettaNet unveiled eConcert, a phased implementation of open content and transaction rules for increasing IT supply chain and electronic commerce efficiency.

The eConcert initiative includes lab-testing concepts, as well as initiating pre-production pilots and live production implementations that are scheduled to begin February 2, 2000. eConcert currently is in the pilot phase.

"KPMG is pleased to support RosettaNet and its commitment to enhance IT supply chain efficiency, helping the industry to streamline efficiency and increase customer service," said Jim Oravec, senior manager for KPMG. "In our role as Execution Partner, we will help companies implement projects, coordinate research, piloting and certification processes, and establish business model metrics."

Oravec adds that RosettaNet represents an unprecedented collaboration among industry participants beginning at the top with executive commitment to align business processes, and extending into the technical ranks where employees of member companies have contributed to standards development over the past year. The driving concepts behind RosettaNet directly complement KPMG's enterprise2enterpriseSM view of supply chain partner integration, which focuses on helping to transform entire industries, not just individual companies.

About KPMG
KPMG LLP is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. In the U.S., KPMG partners and professionals provide a wide-range of accounting, tax and consulting services. As a provider of information-based services, KPMG delivers understandable business advice - helping clients analyze their businesses with true clarity, raise their level of performance, achieve growth and enhance shareholder value. KPMG International's member firms have more than 6,700 partners and 92,000 professionals in 157 countries. KPMG's Consulting practice can be found on the web at http://www.kpmgconsulting.com/ or reached through the firms site at http://www.us.kpmg.com.

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. The RosettaNet Managing Board now consists of 34 CEOs, CIOs, and executives representing 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. RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.