What Stampede Technologies is Saying:

Gordon Dorworth, President and CEO of Stampede Technologies:
"Year 2000 was very good to Stampede Technologies with major product enhancements released and significant business closed. "With year 2001 showing even more promise, we were looking for an especially good start and knew we had an excellent chance of taking home the gold in the Beacon Awards' Best Tool/Utility Solution category. We also knew that we would be competing with some of Lotus' most distinguished business partners. This made the win particularly gratifying and, given the Beacon Awards' meaning in the industry, has already started paying dividends. Add to this our finalist position in the Excellence in Partnering Service category and you will find a company poised to have their greatest year ever. We worked hard for these victories and are most pleased that Lotus and the judges have acknowledged our accomplishments. Most importantly we are pleased that we have brought so much value to our customers."

Thomas Yohe, VP of Engineering for Stampede Technologies, Inc.
"These awards are incredible motivators. You really work hard and want to win one."

What Lotus and Iris are saying:

Pierre Van Beneden, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations, Lotus Development Corporation:
"With more than 13,000 Business Partners worldwide making a substantial impact on how businesses operate today, Lotus has one of the largest, strongest and successful partner programs in the world. As our partners' solutions become more innovative each year, determining the winners and finalists becomes an increasingly difficult decision, as we must exemplify the high standard of excellence we have come to expect of our partner community."

Ken Bisconti, Vice President, Worldwide Business Partner Program, Lotus Development Corporation:
"Our business partners are constantly working to provide customers a leading edge in the e-business world by fully leveraging Lotus technology.. The Beacon Awards are the perfect forum for recognizing Lotus Business Partners' accomplishments and dedication to delivering the highest quality solutions and services possible, and to specifically honor those business partners who showcase the best the Lotus Business Partner community has to offer."

Tim Halvorsen, President, Iris Corporation:
"Stampede's TurboGold for Lotus Notes and Domino servers exemplifies the phrase, "speed is everything." The solution uses caching, compression and streaming techniques to speed up the replication of Lotus Notes databases to and from remote users, as well as between Domino servers. It improves replication performance in two very important areas. First, it packages Notes databases more efficiently and second, it eliminates Notes chatter or latency effects. While most users see replication times cut at least in half, one customer has experienced performance improvements of up to 12-to-1 by using TurboGold on 1,350 AS/400s communicating over a satellite network normally prone to various latency delays.