National Instruments Names Select Alliance Partners for 2004
Fifteen National Instruments Alliance Program Members Honored

Austin, Texas, March 2, 2004 --- National Instruments today designated 15 of the company's more than 600 Alliance Program members as NI Select Partners for 2004. Select Alliance Partners use their application expertise and in-depth knowledge of National Instruments products to build customer-defined solutions in a wide range of industries and applications including automotive, aerospace/defense and manufacturing test. NI Select Integration Partners offer integration services to a specific region, while NI Select Channel Partners focus on key market segments.

The distinguished group of National Instruments Select Integration Partners for 2004 included Data Science Automation, Inc. for the sixth consecutive year. DSA is a National Instruments Select Integration Partner, National Instruments Value Added Reseller, hosts three National Instruments Certified Training Centers, and staffs numerous National Instruments Certified Instructors, National Instruments LabVIEW Certified Developers and Architects, and National Instruments TestStand Certified Developers and Architects.

"NI Select Partners meet our highest standards for level of business, commitment to National Instruments and professional business practices," said Pete Zogas, NI senior vice president of sales and marketing. "We strongly recommend Select Partners to our customers to meet their most challenging application needs."

NI Select Partners work closely with National Instruments worldwide sales, marketing, R&D and technical support organizations to choose and integrate the best products to ensure customer satisfaction. NI Select Partners also demonstrate ethical business practices, a commitment to customer success and financial stability.

For more information about National Instruments Alliance Program and National Instruments Select Partners, visit ni.com/alliance.

About the National Instruments Alliance Program
The National Instruments Alliance Partner Program includes business relationships between NI and more than 600 consultants, system integrators and developers worldwide. The program combines the wide variety of NI measurement and automation products with the specific industry expertise of consultants and systems integrators. NI Alliance Partners educate customers, make product recommendations, help customers meet short development schedules, provide turnkey systems and develop and market specialized add-on packages based on NI software and hardware.

About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation -- a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 40 countries. In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past five years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

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