Please direct your media and public relations inquiries to: mediarelations@cdw.com 800-800-4CDW New CDW Web Tool Helps Customers Manage Software Licensing VERNON HILLS, Ill. - June 4, 2003 - CDW (Nasdaq: CDWC), a leading provider of technology products and services for businesses, government and education, is launching a new extranet feature on its award-winning CDW.com Web site. The new Software License Tracker helps users manage their complex software licensing agreements in a simple online format. "For many of our customers, managing their software licenses -- tracking the licenses they have and when they expire -- is becoming a full-time job," said Jon Stevens, CIO, CDW. "Software License Tracker can simplify these complicated issues in a user friendly format to help customers save time and money. This is another way that customers can get more from CDW." CDW recognized customers' need for a tool to easily manage their software licenses and solicited input from several customers to determine the specific features a tool of this type should offer. The result is the new Software License Tracker, which is available free of charge to customers through their extranet. Software License Tracker allows customers to manage their volume software licensing purchases, monitor their license expiration dates, and create custom license inventory reports that are delivered directly to their e-mail inbox. Information compiled by the Software License Tracker tool includes data from licensing purchases made through CDW and licensing program specifications supplied to CDW by leading software companies Adobe, Microsoft, Symantec and VERITAS. Users can also input their own additional software licensing data as well. Software License Tracker is part of CDW.com's new Software Licensing Center at CDW.com/volumesoftware (CDWG.com/volumesoftware for government and education customers), which has information to help customers evaluate and understand the intricacies of volume software licensing plans before they make their purchase. CDW also offers a team of volume software licensing specialists, who are available to work with customers individually to help them find the licensing plans that best fit their needs. Software License Tracker is available to customers who have established a CDW extranet. To create a custom extranet free of charge, business customers may visit CDW.com and click on "CDW@work." Government and education customers may visit CDWG.com and click on "CDWG@work." About CDW CDW® (Nasdaq: CDWC), ranked No. 381 on the FORTUNE 500, is a leading provider of technology solutions for businesses, government agencies and educational institutions nationwide. CDW is a principal source of technology products and services including top name brands such as APC, Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Symantec, Toshiba and ViewSonic. CDW distributes contracts to end users for customized and standardized on-site services supplied directly by providers such as HP Services and Unisys and for training programs provided by firms such as KnowledgeNet and Productivity Point International. CDW was founded in 1984 as a home-based business and today employs 3,000 coworkers whose efforts generated net sales of more than $4.2 billion in 2002. CDW's direct model offers one-on-one relationships with knowledgeable account managers; purchasing by telephone, fax, the company's award-winning www.cdw.com Web site or customized CDW@work™ extranets; custom configured solutions and same day shipping; flexible financing solutions; and pre- and post-sales technical support, with more than 100 factory-trained and A+ certified technicians on staff.