STAMPEDE TECHNOLOGIES' TURBOGOLD ENTERPRISE EDITION SELECTED BY THE TJX COMPANIES, INC.

Stampede To Deliver Performance Enhancements to TJX's Domino Environment

DAYTON, OHIO–MARCH 24, 2003––Stampede Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of advanced software that dramatically improves the performance in IBM Lotus enterprises and lowers the cost of ownership of Domino™, today announced that The TJX Companies, Inc. has selected Stampede’s TurboGold® Enterprise Edition to improve the performance and productivity of its Lotus Domino environment.

The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the United States and worldwide. TurboGold Enterprise Edition provides Lotus users, like The TJX Companies, with significant improvements in enterprise-wide data movement, data storage, data control and Web acceleration.

“We are delighted that TJX has joined our list of satisfied customers and are most pleased to help contribute to making them even more competitive,” said Gordon Dorworth, president and CEO of Stampede Technologies, Inc. “To be selected by TJX as the solution of choice for accelerating the transfer of crucial business data between their stores truly validates the capabilities of our TurboGold Enterprise Edition software.”

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.

To determine if TurboGold Enterprise Edition can deliver value to your company’s IT infrastructure, visit www.stampede.com and fill out the free “HealthCheck.” It provides a fast, easy process through which Stampede can assess a Lotus-based IT environment and identify areas for enhancing performance, saving bandwidth and improving system management.


About The TJX Companies, Inc.
The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. The Company operates 713 T.J. Maxx, 629 Marshalls, 142 HomeGoods and 75 A.J. Wright stores in the United States. In Canada, the Company operates 146 Winners and 15 HomeSense stores, and in Europe, 123 T.K. Maxx stores. TJX's press releases and financial information are also available on the Internet at www.tjx.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 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