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( BW)(OH-STAMPEDE-TECH) Stampede Technologies Wins Large Order from
IBM; IBM's More Than 300,000 Users Worldwide Will Benefit From
Stampede TurboGold's Accelerator for Lotus Notes
Business Editors
DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000--Stampede
Technologies Inc. (www.stampede.com), a leading developer of
acceleration software, Tuesday announced the biggest customer order
ever received in the company's history.
IBM, one of the world's largest information companies, has
purchased Stampede's TurboGold client-to-server accelerator for its
more than 300,000 Lotus Notes users worldwide. The terms of the order
provide IBM with unlimited internal use of TurboGold on its global
network of Windows PC clients and RS/6000 (AIX) servers.
The addition of TurboGold enhances IBM's Lotus Notes
infrastructure making communication faster, more efficient and more
effective.
As the parent company of Lotus Development, IBM has the unique
distinction of offering and using Lotus Notes, the world's leading
workflow and messaging software. Lotus Notes combines functions such
as email, document management, calendaring & scheduling and other
groupware services.
It enables IBM employees to communicate with colleagues,
collaborate in teams and coordinate strategic business processes.
TurboGold builds on this collaborative theme and fits seamlessly into
IBM's network architecture. Like Lotus Notes, TurboGold adapts to
different workloads and incorporates the ability to grow with IBM's
network as new clients and servers are added.
"We can't begin to tell you how delighted we are to have received
this order from IBM and, in a small but important way, help contribute
to their success," said Gordon Dorworth, president and chief executive
officer of Stampede Technologies Inc. "As an IBM and Lotus Premier
Business Partner, we are committed to providing software that enhance
their product offerings and strengthen their internal operations.
"We demonstrated this when they came to us with a need to
accelerate response time to their internal users over their Lotus
Notes/AIX network. Together we designed, tested and improved their
Notes transfer rate by better than 50 percent. For example, what took
an hour without TurboGold was reduced to 30 minutes with TurboGold.
"It certainly gave us a sense of pride in doing for IBM what they
do so well for their customers -- bringing business value with
advanced technological solutions."
Tom Yohe, vice president of engineering at Stampede Technologies
Inc. added, "What impressed us most was the thoroughness of their
evaluation. IBM worked with us throughout the process and tested our
TurboGold/AIX client-to-server software both in Europe and the U.S.
Their people were topnotch and very responsive.
"Their feedback provided valuable insight and allowed us to react
quickly to any problems encountered. The test results confirmed our
design and, most importantly, pleased our customer." Yohe concluded,
"It was very gratifying to both myself and my engineering team to see
the results of our efforts validated by rigorous testing and paying
such high dividends to our customers."
TurboGold software uses patented (US Patents 5,682,514 & 5,835,943
& 6,012,085 & 6,122,637) compression, streaming and caching techniques
to accelerate the transfer of Lotus Notes databases. TurboGold's
client-to-server & server-to-server applications support Lotus Notes
4.5 and above, including R5.
TurboGold's client runs on Windows NT, 95, 98, and 2000 and
TurboGold's server runs on Windows NT, IBM AS/400 and RS/6000 (AIX)
platforms. Performance gains of better than two to one are typically
achieved with higher transfer rates possible, depending on data
content and delivery method.
The savings achieved in both time & bandwidth improve productivity
while extending the life of the infrastructure and delaying or
eliminating costly upgrades.
For more information on TurboGold, please contact Stampede
Technologies at 800/763-3423 or visit their web site at
www.stampede.com.
Stampede(R), Stampede TurboGold(R) and TurboGold(R) are registered
trademarks of Stampede Technologies Inc. IBM(R) is a registered
trademark of International Business Machines Corp. Lotus(R) and Lotus
Notes(R) are registered trademarks of Lotus Development Corp.
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