CHANGE-OF-CONTROL AGREEMENT

September 9, 2002
Mr. Mark Perlstein
Executive Vice President, Sales and Operations
AlphaNet Solutions, Inc.
7 Ridgedale Avenue
Cedar Knolls, New Jersey 07927

Dear Mark:

     By Unanimous Written Consent dated September 3, 2002, the Board of
Directors of AlphaNet Solutions, Inc., a New Jersey corporation (hereinafter,
the “Company”), approved the issuance to you of this Change-of-Control
Agreement, detailing your rights and the Company’s obligations to you in the
event of a “Change-Of-Control” (as defined below) in the ownership, board of
directors or management of the Company.

     In consideration of your continued service to the Company, in the event
there is a Change-of-Control that results during the Protected Period (as
defined below) in either the involuntary termination of your employment with the
Company or voluntary resignation from the Company for Good Reason (as defined
below), you shall receive from the Company immediately upon the effective date
of the Change-of-Control: (i) a lump sum payment equal to one (1) year of your
current base salary (including your current monthly car allowance or equivalent
and all vacation pay earned and unused as of the date of
termination/resignation); and (ii) a lump sum payment equal to your earned pro
rata performance bonus for the then-current fiscal year. For purposes of this
Agreement, your earned pro rata performance bonus will be computed as of the
effective date of the Change-of-Control; provided, however, if such date is
within thirty (30) days of the close of a fiscal quarter, your performance bonus
will be computed as of the close of such quarter; provided, further, if the
effective date of the Change-of-Control is more than thirty (30) days prior to
the close of a fiscal quarter, your performance bonus will be computed as of the
close of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter.

     In addition to the foregoing entitlements, for one (1) year from date of
termination/resignation, the Company shall continue, and/or require as a
condition of the Change-of-Control that any successor-in-interest continue, all
of your current medical, dental, life and disability insurance benefits. In the
event of a Change-of-Control, all stock options issued to you before the Change
of Control under the Company’s 1995 Stock Plan, as the same may be amended from
time to time, shall, to the extent such stock options have not previously
vested, immediately vest and become exercisable upon the effective date of the
Change-of-Control.

     You agree that, for one (1) year following the termination of your
employment in connection with a Change of Control, you shall not within the
Restricted Territory, as hereinafter defined, directly or indirectly, as an
owner, principal, agent, servant, representative or employee, or as a member of
a partnership or as an officer, director or stockholder of any corporation or
limited liability corporation, or in any manner whatsoever, solicit, service,
have contact with or divert any entity which is, or was during the immediate one
(1) year period prior to the date of termination of your employment with the
Company, a customer of the Company. The “Restricted Territory” shall mean the
geographic area commonly known as the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia corridor,
including the five boroughs of New York City, the entire State of New Jersey,
Philadelphia and the County of Montgomery in Pennsylvania. In addition, during
one (1) year following the termination of your employment in connection with a
Change of Control, you agree to comply with all provisions of the
Confidentiality/Non-Solicitation Agreement executed by and between the Company
and yourself on June 7, 2002 and any other Confidentiality/Non-Solicitation
Agreement thereafter executed by and between the Company and yourself.

     The receipt of lump sum payments and the receipt of any and all other
benefits hereunder (with the exception of the immediate vesting of all stock
options upon the occurrence of a Change-of-Control) are also contingent upon
your execution of a Severance and Release Agreement in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Company.

     The salary and bonus payments, as well as the benefit continuation and
other provisions referenced in the immediately foregoing paragraphs, shall be
applicable for a period of one (1) year from the date of any Change-of-Control,
said period being the “Protected Period” under this Agreement. If within such
one-year period a Change-of-Control has not resulted in either the involuntary
termination of your employment with the Company or any successor-in-interest to
the Company or voluntary resignation from the Company or any
successor-in-interest to the Company for Good Reason, this Agreement and the
terms hereof shall be null and void and have no further force or effect.
Similarly, in the event your employment with the Company or any
successor-in-interest to the Company is voluntarily or involuntarily terminated
in the absence of a Change-of-Control, this Change-of-Control Agreement shall be
null and void.

     For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms will have the meanings
ascribed to them below:

     “Change-of-Control” shall be deemed to have occurred when: (a) there is a
dissolution or liquidation of the Company; (b) there is a merger or
consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving corporation (other than
a merger or consolidation with a wholly-owned subsidiary, a reincorporation of
the Company in a different jurisdiction, or other transaction in which there is
no substantial change in the stockholders of Company or their relative stock
holdings; (c) there is a merger in which the Company is the surviving
corporation but after which the stockholders of the Company (other than any
stockholder which merges (or which owns or controls another corporation which
merges) with the Company in such merger) own less than 50% of the shares or
other equity interests in the Company; (d) there is a sale of substantially all
of the assets of the Company; (e) there is an acquisition, sale or transfer of a
majority of the outstanding shares of the Company by tender offer or similar
transaction; (f) a new or existing shareholder who may be a member of management
or an affiliate obtains unilateral control, directly or indirectly, of the
Company or its Board of Directors, whether alone or in concert with others; (g)
a new shareholder or group of shareholders not including current management or
affiliates obtains unilateral control, directly or indirectly, of the Company or
its Board of Directors; (h) there is an involuntary change in the composition,
as of the effective date of this Agreement, of more than thirty-three percent
(33%) of the Board of Directors of the Company; or (i) any person, entity or
combination thereof controls, individually or collectively through ownership,
assignment, voting proxy or the like, fifty (50) or more percent of the
outstanding voting shares ordinarily having the right to vote for the election
of the directors of the Company or the combined voting power thereof.

     “Good Reason” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following within one
(1) year of a Change of Control: (i) any material demotion in your position with
the Company; (ii) any material diminution in your salary, benefits and
eligibility for bonus compensation, taken as a whole; (iii) any material and
substantive diminution in your duties and responsibilities for the Company; or
(iv) any reassignment of your duties to a principal place of employment located
more than thirty (30) miles from your principal place of employment at the date
of this letter agreement, provided that Executive has given the Company written
notice of the occurrence of (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) and provided that the
Company does not, within thirty (30) days of such written notice, return
Executive to Executive’s status before the occurrence.

     This Change-of-Control Agreement supersedes all prior understandings,
written or oral, by and between the Company and yourself concerning the subject
matter hereof.

     Please signify your acceptance of and agreement to the foregoing by signing
in the space provided below for this purpose.

Very truly yours,

RICHARD G. ERICKSON
President & CEO
(By Authority of the Board of Directors)

ALL OF THE FOREGOING IS
ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO
THIS 9TH  OF SEPTEMBER, 2002

MARK PERLSTEIN
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Mark Perlstein