STAMPEDE TECHNOLOGIES TEAMS WITH IBM TO SUPPORT LOTUS NOTES and DOMINO RELEASE 6.5

Stampede Integrates Instant Messaging Into TurboGold Solution

DAYTON, Ohio--September 29, 2003--Stampede Technologies, Inc., today announced its plans to support IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Release 6.5. As an IBM (NYSE:IBM) Business Partner, Stampede has been awaiting the arrival of this new release, which provides the capability to integrate instant messaging into the Stampede TurboGold Enterprise Edition family of performance and acceleration products.

“IBM Lotus put tremendous thought and effort behind making Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5 a more intuitive and integrated application for end users, providing increased association with documents, databases and Web sites,” said Ken Bisconti, Vice President, Lotus Workplace Products, IBM Software Group. “With a valued partner like Stampede delivering solutions that will only enhance the data capabilities of Lotus Notes and Domino 6.5, IBM Lotus sees users continuing to benefit from a higher level of data control, data accessibility and exchange.”

For nearly a decade Stampede has been providing software solutions, which enrich the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino experience, including web acceleration, data storage, data control and data movement. TurboGold delivers quantifiable business value and benefits, allowing customers to optimize the performance of their existing enterprise resources and improve end-user productivity and satisfaction. TurboGold will deliver the same value and benefits to Lotus Notes and Domino Release 6.5, by providing significant cost savings in bandwidth, storage and telecommunications.

“Stampede is excited about bringing our technology to this new Lotus Notes/Domino release,” said Gordon Dorworth, president and CEO of Stampede Technologies. “We will use the capabilities of Lotus Notes and Domino Release 6.5 to integrate instant messaging into our TurboGold products, allowing a Lotus Notes/TurboGold administrator the ability to immediately communicate to end-users about what is occurring in the Lotus Notes/Domino environment. This will significantly reduce the cycle time on implementation of new releases, policy definitions, quality of service, and other features of TurboGold.”

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.