Stampede Demonstrates TurboGold Enterprise Edition at Lotusphere; Highlights New Features and Capabilities.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Lotusphere 2003

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003

Lotus Notes and Domino-enhancing Software Extends Capabilities,

Offering Enterprises Increased Performance,

Bandwidth and Storage Savings, Efficient Management

Stampede Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced software that dramatically improves the performance of IBM Lotus enterprises and reduces total cost of ownership, is demonstrating TurboGold(R) Enterprise Edition with important new features and capabilities at Lotusphere 2003 in Orlando, Florida. TurboGold Enterprise Edition provides Lotus users with significant improvements in enterprise-wide data movement, data storage, data control and Web acceleration. In addition, Stampede is sponsoring the Lotusphere Executive Golf Classic for leading Lotus customers on Sunday, January 26, 2003.

With TurboGold Enterprise Edition, Stampede delivers an enterprise-class solution that provides significant performance improvements and advanced user administration capabilities. It incorporates services for setting policies for replication and synchronization, Web acceleration, multicasting and database priority assignments, and enables users to easily distribute them throughout the Notes infrastructure. Along with improved storage management, these features bring added value to enterprises focused on creating more efficient operations and improving bottom-line results.

"TurboGold's expansion into the Notes enterprise continues with this release, strengthening our ability to provide improvements for Lotus environments while saving customers countless dollars," said Gordon Dorworth, president and CEO of Stampede Technologies. "It's important that companies squeeze every available bit of productivity from their current infrastructures. TurboGold does just that by providing solutions which improve performance, lower the total cost of ownership and maximize the return on investment our customers have made in Notes, iNotes, QuickPlace and Domino applications. We're seeing examples of TurboGold ROI in just a few months, sometimes less."

"Stampede is setting a de facto standard for optimized control of Domino data and associated Web acceleration throughout an enterprise," said Dana Gardner, research director with the Aberdeen Group. "The business benefits are clear: improved reliability and speed of data replications over all levels of network connections, with the ability to conduct backups of huge caches of data types in minutes instead of hours."

TurboGold Enterprise Edition Features and Performance Enhancements

Recent third-party performance testing by KMDS Technical Associates, the administrative agent for the NotesBench Consortium, found that TurboGold provides users with dramatic savings in network traffic and storage management. TurboGold provides benefits in four key areas:

Data movement: Multicator(TM) function uses the multicasting capability of the network infrastructure to simultaneously broadcast updates to all database subscribers, instead of replicating updates to each subscriber. This feature dramatically improves bandwidth utilization since updated fields and documents need to be distributed only once rather than individually replicated to each Notes user. KMDS testing showed that TurboGold creates savings of greater than 85 percent in network traffic. Stampede is also planning to include a new server-to-server multicasting capability, further enhancing performance.

Data storage: Improved storage management is enabled by a TurboGold function that dynamically and transparently converts databases and email attachments to Zip format, thereby reducing storage requirements. This includes a standalone utility to compress existing databases and attachments on Domino servers. Also scheduled are additional AutoZip capabilities designed to further reduce storage requirements and increase the efficiency of sending data over the Internet. KMDS found that TurboGold provides users with savings of 85 percent in disk space.

Data control: Traffic-shaping management offers "Quality of Service" and on-time delivery for Notes applications and mission-critical information. Used together with external traffic-shaping hardware, this management tool enables administrators to assign priorities to Notes traffic, as well as track and charge bandwidth usage by user and/or departments. Policy-based management enables additional control of TurboGold's features and policy settings to help manage the acceleration and delivery of Notes database traffic.

Web acceleration: Online, real-time HTTP Web acceleration supports iNotes, QuickPlace and HTML applications, accelerating Web access for all TurboGold users. KMDS benchmark testing found that TurboGold enabled a 65 percent reduction in network traffic between the client and server.

New "HealthCheck"

As part of the TurboGold Enterprise Edition announcement today, Stampede also unveiled the "Stampede HealthCheck." The Stampede HealthCheck is a fast, three-step process through which Stampede can assess a Lotus-based IT environment and identify areas for improved performance, bandwidth savings and improved system management. During Lotusphere 2003, the HealthCheck is available free of charge to all attendees in Booth # 307 and takes less than five minutes to complete.

Pricing

TurboGold supports Lotus Notes 4.51 and above, including Notes/Domino 6. TurboGold's client runs on all Windows 32 platforms, and TurboGold's server runs on Windows NT/2000/XP and IBM's iSeries, pSeries and zSeries platforms. Stampede's pricing includes a Rewards Program that provides customers with volume discounts of 25 percent or higher based on total purchase price. Single client licenses start at $63 and single server licenses start at $1,913. An annual subscription plan provides technical support and software upgrades at an additional cost. More product details are available at www.stampede.com.

About Stampede Technologies, Inc.

Stampede Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of advanced, cost-effective software solutions for accelerating information and improving performance throughout an enterprise. Stampede Technologies develops and markets the patented TurboGold family of software products, which accelerates the performance of applications running on an IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino environment by up to five times, lowering telecommunication costs, increasing productivity and improving bandwidth, all resulting in a rapid ROI and lower total cost of ownership. Stampede Technologies, based in Dayton, Ohio, is available on the World Wide Web at www.stampede.com.

Lotus, Lotus Notes and Domino are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lotus Software and/or IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.

Stampede, Stampede TurboGold and TurboGold are registered trademarks and Multicator is a trademark of Stampede Technologies, Inc.