RosettaNet Press Release
RosettaNet Announces Global Executive Leadership

Consortium's Latest Board Appointees and Other Initiatives Create the Critical Mass Needed for Global B2B Process Standards

For Release November 21, 2000

SANTA ANA --

RosettaNet, the high-technology industries' leading e-business process standards consortium, today announced that it has taken several initiatives to expand its global presence -- actions that will continue to build RosettaNet as the global standard for companies seeking to more easily and efficiently conduct e-business with supply chain partners around the world.

RosettaNet has added key executives from international companies to its Managing Boards. Jean-Claude Monney, worldwide director of IT and e-business at STMicroelectronics' (ST) corporate headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has been appointed chairman of RosettaNet's Electronic Components (EC) Supply Chain Board. A graduate in Electronic Engineering and Nuclear Physics, Monney has worked for companies such as Motorola Semiconductor and Digital Equipment Corporation, in addition to ST. Monney began as a microprocessor software engineer before moving into senior management positions in marketing and new business development. Currently, Monney is responsible for spearheading and coordinating ST's strategic vision for Internet and e-business.

"The value of e-business B2B standards is when only one is used on a worldwide basis. With e-business, you must think global and act local," said Monney. "I hope to use my experience of having worked in several countries around the world to make a valuable contribution to RosettaNet. One of my aims, in particular, is to encourage European companies to adopt and implement these worldwide standards."

Monney will be making a presentation at the electronica 2000 electronics trade show in Munich, Germany. Titled "The Strategic Value of E-Business Industry Standards for Electronic Components," the presentation will focus on RosettaNet standards and the importance of their adoption.

"Any true standard has to be global," said Jennifer Hamilton, CEO of RosettaNet. "That's why we have worked so hard ensuring that our operations in North America, Europe and Asia are all actively involved in our standards development and implementation efforts."

In addition to Monney's European leadership of the Electronic Components Board, the newly formed Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) Board includes international executive board appointees. Gidu Shroff, vice president, technology and manufacturing group and director of materials at Intel Corporation, has been named Chairman of the SM Managing Board. Quincy Lin, senior vice president of corporate services at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSMC), Taiwan's largest semiconductor manufacturer, has been appointed as vice chair for the new Board.

"Intel has been a leading advocate of RosettaNet because we believe that globally accepted e-business protocols will accelerate the adoption of e-business," said Shroff. "RosettaNet's new Board has the potential to define key business processes that are critical to the global exchange of semiconductor components via the Internet."

RosettaNet has spearheaded many initiatives to help European companies implement consortium standards. RosettaNet has launched European EConcert meetings, the most recent of which took place in Helsinki, Finland, and was attended by more than 50 European supply chain companies. The next European EConcert meeting is scheduled for April 2001. The consortium has also created European deployment groups, which are communities of members who meet to exchange information about RosettaNet standards. In addition, several meetings are planned by RosettaNet partners to increase awareness of RosettaNet standards in Europe.

As a result of these and other global efforts, RosettaNet is beginning to see more companies engaged in trading partner relationships that span international borders. This is perhaps the greatest sign that RosettaNet's global industry standards are bearing real-world benefits for the companies that use them.

For example, WPI, a Taiwan-based distributor, and Intel are trading supply chain information using RosettaNet's Quote and Order Entry Partner Interface Processes® (PIPs®). The companies are using PIP 3A4 (Manage Purchase Order) and PIP 3A7 (Notify of Purchase Order Acceptance) and are using Extricity, Inc.'s B2B software platform. Messages are exchanged from WPI's location in Taiwan to Intel's Asia-Pacific office in Hong Kong and its Folsom, Calif. office.

About RosettaNet
RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces to align the processes between supply chain partners on a global basis.

More than 300 companies representing more than $1 trillion in annual information technology, electronic components and semiconductor manufacturing revenues currently participate in RosettaNet's standards development, strategy, and implementation activities. A complete list of member companies and more information on RosettaNet is available at www.rosettanet.org.