PARTMINER AND STANDARDS AND MORE ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO OPTIMIZE SALES IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND

--- PartMiner has increased its global presence through its distributor, Standards and More, located in Germany and selling to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for the world’s most comprehensive component data management solution and industry codes and standards ---

Centennial, Colorado and N. Billerica, Massachusetts – January 30, 2007 – – PartMiner Information Services, Inc., a leading Interactive Content and Commerce solutions provider for electronic components, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a reseller agreement for PartMiner’s CAPSTM products with Standards and More (SAM) a leader in the distribution of technical databases including IEEE’s Electronic Library and ASTM’s Digital Library, and now an exclusive reseller for PartMiner products in Germany.

As a reseller for PartMiner’s CAPS™ products, SAM provides a high level of service for all electronic component needs. Mr. Karl-Heinz Gruber, Managing Director of SAM, is pleased to offer companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, on behalf of PartMiner, end-to-end solutions for:

• Material Content/Environmental Compliance (RoHS)
• Obsolescence
• Bill of Material (BOM) Cleansing, Analysis, and Reporting
• Research for Design
• Cross-Referencing Comparable Parts for Substitutability
• Reducing Number of Suppliers/Part Numbers in Inventory

PartMiner’s CAPSTM database is the largest electronic components database of its kind. The CAPSTM database provides rich, detailed, parametric information on current and historical components that engineers use in their research-for-design and component selection processes. The CAPSTM database contains millions of pages of current and historical datasheets, end-of-life notices, product change notices and RoHS compliance declarations.

PartMiner’s applications are unique in the industry, as evidenced by the fact that 9 of the 11 largest electronics contract manufacturers and 8 of the 10 largest defense contractors are PartMiner customers.

"We are very excited to work with SAM in the Central European market to provide an unparalleled component management solution," remarked Chris Meyer, CEO of PartMiner. "SAM's expertise combined with PartMiner's CAPS solution is a win-win for customers."

"This is a perfect product add-on for SAM," said Karl-Heinz Gruber, Managing Director and founder, SAM Standards and More. "Not only will PartMiner product offerings complement our other database services for the Electronic Industries, this will allow these customers a one-stop-shopping for their information needs. As a result, we can supply very much the complete content our customers need."

About PartMiner

PartMiner is a leading supplier of electronic components and excess inventory management services, as well as a cutting-edge online provider of component information to engineers and procurement professionals in the electronics industry. PartMiner's CAPSTM database is a comprehensive resource, providing detailed, searchable technical data on over 83 million components from over 2,600 manufacturers. The PartMiner® solution brings you real-time supply chain information without costly infrastructure support and data cleansing. The world's leading component manufacturers, OEMs, contract manufacturers, and component distributors subscribe to the CAPSTM solution. PartMiner has offices in the United States (California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas), Canada, China (Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing), Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Singapore, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Additional information about PartMiner is available at www.partminer.com.

About SAM – Standards and More …

SAM offers technical documentations, e.g. standards, guidelines and other technical databases on yearly subscription basis. The provided technical documentations are stored on various data carriers, e.g. DVD or made available online. SAM does not produce these technical documentations but obtains them from third parties and, by a technical procedure, transfers them to data carriers without changing their contents; hence the preparation of the contents of these documentations and the examination of the correctness of their contents are not part of the contractual relationship between SAM and its customers. Additional information about SAM is available at www.SAM-online.eu.