KROGER CHOOSES STAMPEDE TECHNOLOGIES’ TURBOGOLD

Award-Winning Acceleration Software to Enable One of the Nation’s Largest Retail Grocery Chains to Roll Out IBM Lotus Notes

DAYTON, OHIO—July 16, 2002-—Stampede Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of accelerator software for IBM Lotus Notes® and IBM Lotus Domino™ enterprises, today announced that The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains, has chosen Stampede’s TurboGold to reduce its network bandwidth requirements and accelerate its IBM Lotus Notes environment.

Kroger recently decided to standardize on IBM Lotus Notes and chose TurboGold to provide accelerated performance to end-users across the corporate IT infrastructure, and to manage the rapid growth of its network more efficiently.

"Kroger conducted intensive testing of several products and looked closely at alternatives. We are proud that TurboGold was the product that enabled Kroger to maximize the performance of its existing systems and avoid additional bandwidth expenses,” said Gordon Dorworth, president and CEO of Stampede Technologies. “With the purchase of TurboGold, Kroger has extended the life of its current infrastructure and created greater efficiency throughout its entire organization."

TurboGold is a cost-effective way for IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino enterprises to provide its users with greatly increased performance through a unique combination of compression, caching and streaming technologies. Such TurboGold users as IBM, American General Finance, Strategic Decisions Group, Red Wing Shoes and ONDEO Nalco have realized Lotus Notes performance increases of an average of five times. TurboGold offers several efficiency-driven capabilities, including online attachment compression, offline acceleration of design element replication, and acceleration support for iNotes users.

About Kroger
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kroger is one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains. At the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2001, Kroger operated (either directly or through its subsidiaries) 2,429 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 32 states under approximately two dozen banners, including Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Food 4 Less, King Soopers, Smith’s, Fry’s and Fry’s Marketplace, Dillon, QFC and City Market. Kroger also operates (either directly or through its subsidiaries) 780 convenience stores, 436 fine jewelry stores, 268 supermarket fuel centers and 41 food processing plants. For more information about Kroger, visit www.kroger.com.

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

For more information, please contact:
Penny Walter Stampede Technologies, Inc. (937) 291-5035 ext 103 pwalter@stampede.com	Kimberly Maxwell     NetPR     850-835-2694 x 301     kimberly@netpr.net