STAMPEDE'S TURBOGOLD ENTERPRISE EDITION WINS GOLD IN LOTUS ADVISOR MAGAZINE EDITORS' CHOICE AWARDS

Leading Lotus Performance Accelerator Software Named Best Infrastructure Tool

DAYTON, Ohio-March 17, 2003-Stampede Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced software that dramatically improves performance in IBM Lotus enterprises and lowers the cost of ownership of Notes/Domino, today announced that it has won the prestigious Lotus Advisor Magazine's Editors' Choice Gold Award. The Editors' Choice Awards are given annually to innovative products that enhance development in Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime, QuickPlace, iNotes, Mobile Notes and Discovery Server environments.

The 2003 Editors' Choice Awards were chosen by contributing experts and authors to Lotus Advisor Magazine from products exhibited at Lotusphere 2003 in Orlando. Two awards, a Gold and Silver, are granted annually in each category. Stampede, which won this year's Gold Award for TurboGold Enterprise Edition in the Infrastructure Tools category, also won Silver Awards in 1999 and 2001 for TurboGold. The Editors' Choice Awards winners will appear in the April 2003 issue of Lotus Advisor Magazine available on newsstands March 17 or online at www.lotusadvisormagazine.com.

Each year, Editors' Choice Award judges work diligently to identify those products that give Lotus developers and managers the tools they need to increase performance in their networks," according to Lotus Advisor Magazine. "In this difficult economic time, companies are looking to make current systems as productive and cost-efficient as possible. Stampede's TurboGold Enterprise Edition helps make this happen with acceleration, management and storage techniques that benefits the entire Lotus Notes/Domino enterprise."

"We are honored to receive our third Lotus Advisor Magazine Editors' Choice Award," said Gordon L. Dorworth, president and CEO of Stampede Technologies. "This recognition, from one of the most respected publications in the Lotus community, is a testament to the continuing business need for easy-to-implement, cost-justified technologies that move Lotus Notes and Domino data more efficiently and effectively. By improving performance, lowering the cost of ownership and quickly maximizing ROI, TurboGold Enterprise Edition helps our customers optimize their new and existing investments they have made in Lotus Notes, iNotes, QuickPlace and Domino applications."

TurboGold Enterprise Edition offers improvements in four solution areas - data movement, data storage, data control, and web acceleration. 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 help lower the cost of ownership and maximize the ROI of existing Notes and Domino systems, bringing added value to enterprises focused on creating more efficient operations and improving bottom-line results. To determine if TurboGold Enterprise Edition can deliver value to your company, you can now take a "HealthCheck" available free of charge on Stampede's Website. The HealthCheck provides a fast, easy process through which Stampede can assess Lotus-based IT environments and identify areas for enhancing performance, saving bandwidth and improving system management.

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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 reduces cost of ownership through significant savings in bandwidth, telecommunications and storage while maximizing ROI with increases in speed and productivity. TurboGold works with Lotus Notes/Domino 6 and all previous releases back to 4.51. 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 Technologies, based in Dayton, Ohio, is available on the World Wide Web at 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