Pepco Holdings Purchases Winternals Software's Defrag Manager; Winternals Provides Windows System Performance Optimization for Energy Holding Corporation.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Winternals(R) Software, a leading provider of Microsoft systems recovery and data protection solutions, today announced that Pepco Holdings Inc. (PHI) has purchased Winternals Defrag Manager(R). PHI licensed the Winternals solution for use on Windows servers throughout the company's multi-site enterprise. The product was purchased through Endurics, LLC, an ELITE Partner in the Winternals Edge(TM) channel program.

Defrag Manager will be deployed to more than 500 Windows servers throughout PHI's dispersed Windows environment. The product will help the company maintain its reliable IT infrastructure by optimizing performance of the servers' disk drives.

"PHI's recent purchase of Defrag Manager is yet another indication that large companies are looking for a safe, easy, and affordable means to manage their disk defragmentation requirements," said Kevin Connell, CTO of Endurics. "PHI required a world class, scalable Windows disk defragmentation tool that could be deployed and managed with a bare minimum amount of download. Defrag Manager met these requirements."

PHI is an electricity and natural gas delivery company that serves about 1.8 million commercial and residential customers in the Mid-Atlantic region through its subsidiaries Pepco, DelmarvaPower, and Atlantic City Electric. The company also provides competitive wholesale generation services and retail energy products and services.

Defrag Manager is a Windows enterprise defragmentation solution that remotely defragments the drives of all computers throughout the network, without requiring any manual installations on clients. Enterprise defragmentation is remotely controlled and configured from one system -- regardless of the number of computers in the network or the physical location of the machines. Results from using the product include better application and system performance, averted hardware upgrades, increased end-user productivity, and reduced desk side support requirements.

The Winternals Edge partner program makes all three of the company's product lines, including Recovery Manager(R) and Administrator's Pak(TM) in addition to Defrag Manager, available through the channel. The tiered program is aimed at VARs worldwide with Windows system recovery/storage management specializations in both the enterprise and SMB markets. More information about Winternals Edge is available at http://www.winternals.com/partners/.

About Winternals

Founded in 1996, Winternals provides systems recovery and data protection solutions for Microsoft-based enterprises worldwide. Winternals solutions empower IT professionals to rapidly resolve the daily emergencies that arise when administering Windows systems and maintain high availability of mission critical systems. By accelerating recovery, improving data integrity, increasing productivity, and optimizing performance, Winternals reduces the total cost of ownership for the Microsoft-based enterprise. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Winternals is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that counts among its customers 49 of the Fortune 50 and 97 of the Fortune 100. For more information on Winternals visit www.winternals.com.