GlobalSpec.com Enters Key Strategic Alliance with National Instruments

GlobalSpec.com Participates in the Launch of NI Developer Zone - an Online Community for Measurement and Automation

TROY, NY, May 8, 2000 — GlobalSpec.com, the Internet’s leading product research resource for engineers and other technical buyers, recently announced a strategic partnership with National Instruments in the new NI Developer Zone (zone.ni.com). SpecSearch by GlobalSpec.com is the search tool employed by The NI Developer Zone in order to create a complete, one-stop resource for engineers and scientists and to establish an online community of experts in design and measurement and automation systems.

“GlobalSpec.com has created the leading engineering product library with search parameters based on technical specifications – the language of design engineering,” said John Schneiter, President of GlobalSpec.com. “With the NI Developer Zone, we continue to create relationships that help the engineering community reduce time spent day-to-day in component research. We value our partnership with NI and are proud to be catalysts to a more efficient marketplace.”

SpecSearch is the world’s first online, standardized, parametric search and specification resource that allows engineers to search by company name, product type, or product specifications within GlobalSpec.com’s database. Once results are presented, users have multiple ways of contacting the supplier(s) for additional product information.

About National Instruments
National Instruments, a leading supplier of computer-base measurement and automation products, manufactures and sells hundreds of software and hardware products, which when combined with industry standard computers, are used for measurements and industrial automations applications.

About GlobalSpec.com
GlobalSpec.com is a business-to-business, web-based resource that connects engineers and other technical buyers with the products and manufacturers they need based on exact engineering specifications. Users of GlobalSpec.com have access to bias-free information from 6.1 million product specifications in over 160 product areas from the world’s leading suppliers.

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