COMIT SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE
DESIGN SERVICES TO MARSHALL CUSTOMERS

Santa Clara, California, March 9, 1998 : Comit Systems has signed a Joint Marketing Agreement with Marshall Industries, (El Monte, CA) for providing customized engineering and design solutions to OEMs in North America.

"Comit's team of highly skilled engineers will provide Marshall customers with a wide variety of engineering services targeted to high-performance, complex FPGAs, DSPs and embedded controllers. The Marshall/Comit combination addresses critical time-to-market issues by allowing customers to outsource some or all of their design requirements.", said Robert Rodin, CEO and president of Marshall Industries.

Vijay Raghavan, Comit Systems' founder and CEO said, "Marshall Industries' provides Comit Systems with a unique market force that will connect our engineering solutions to the designing community. Comit's extensive engineering resources and Marshall's expertise in global supply chain management offer OEMs a complete project management capability -- from design, through production and delivery."

Recognized as one of the 100 fastest growing, private companies in the Silicon Valley, Comit Systems provides design engineering services for FPGA/ASIC designs and, other shorter-time-to market solutions for board, system and product development, using the latest enabling technologies and tools. Comit Systems may be found on the Internet at http:

Marshall is one of the largest publicly held domestic distributors of industrial electronic components and production supplies with annual sales of more than $1.7 billion. Marshall provides its suppliers with comprehensive coverage in the major electronic manufacturing areas of the United States and Canada. All corporate and value-added service operations meet ISO9002 quality standards. Headquartered in El Monte, California, the company's stock is quoted on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol: MI). Marshall Industries may be found on the Internet at http://www.marshall.com or www.electronicdesign.com