FOOT LOCKER SELECTS STAMPEDE TECHNOLOGIES' TURBOGOLD ENTERPRISE EDITION TO IMPROVE LOTUS NOTES PERFORMANCE

Stampede to Deliver Performance Enhancements and Cost Savings to Foot Locker's Lotus iNotes, Notes and Domino

DAYTON, OHIO–MARCH 24, 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 iNotes™, Notes® and Domino™, today announced that Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE:Z) has selected Stampede’s TurboGold® Enterprise Edition to improve the performance and productivity of its Lotus Notes, Lotus iNotes and Domino environment.

Foot Locker, the world’s leading retailer of athletic footwear and apparel, operates retail stores and sells direct-to-customers through catalogs and the Internet. The company has approximate 3,600 mall-based retail stores and is located in 14 countries in North America, Europe and Australia. Foot Locker purchased TurboGold Enterprise Edition primarily to enhance the flow of Lotus iNotes traffic between their retail stores. They also were looking to improve the performance of their Notes infrastructure including their Notes clients, Domino servers, WAN network, and routers.

“We are very excited that Foot Locker has joined our list of satisfied customers and look forward to helping them get the most out of their investment in iNotes, Notes and Domino,” said Gordon Dorworth, president and CEO of Stampede Technologies. “They are a good example of a global enterprise that will achieve immediate and long-lasting improvements in moving data throughout their network while lowering operating costs, thanks to TurboGold. We take special pride in bringing these benefits to a company as prestigious as Foot Locker”.

TurboGold’s Enterprise Edition 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. TurboGold maximizes the return on investment for Notes, iNotes and Domino enterprise users through the delivery of quantifiable performance enhancements and cost savings. Cost savings in bandwidth, storage and telecommunication result from a TurboGold deployment, by optimizing an organization’s existing Notes enterprise resources.

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 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