Press Release

Ripcord Software announces IISxpress 1.0: a powerful, configurable and user friendly compression plug-in for Microsoft's IIS web server.

London, UK – March 31 2005

Ripcord Software, a developer of software tools for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) announces the release of IISxpress 1.0. Compression has been a significant omission from the feature set of IIS on workstation class computers and poorly implemented on server class computers. IISxpress aims to change this: by bringing enterprise strength compression technology to all versions of IIS 4 and above on both workstation and server platforms. Combining the industry standard ZLIB compression library, a powerful rules-based logic engine and a user friendly user interface IISxpress delivers best of breed performance at a mass market consumer price point.

Key features:

• Real time compression tracking: get a true picture of compression performance allowing for a high degree of configuration tuning and user activity tracking.
• Highly configurable rule engine: exclude content by file extension, MIME type or URI.
• Intelligent compression: the compression engine tracks previous performance and will avoid compressing content where there will be no significant gain.
• Platform friendly: if the CPU is busy with other tasks IISxpress will reduce the priority of the compression tasks to maintain server responsiveness.

Platform requirements:

• Windows NT 4 Workstation or Server
• Windows 2000 Professional or Server
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows 2003 Server

Availability and pricing:

• A trial version of IISxpress is available for download. Trial keys are issued on a monthly basis.
• For full unrestricted functionality IISxpress is priced at $50 per computer.
• An educational discount of 50% is available for those in full time education at a recognized university or college.
• A 100% discount is available for charities.
• A 100% discount is available for open source projects released under the GPL, ZLIB, Mozilla or equivalent license.

IISxpress finally realizes the potential of HTTP compression on the IIS web server platform.

About Ripcord Software

Ripcord Software are a UK software company dedicated to bringing enterprise class software to the widest possible market. We have spent many years developing software products for some of largest business organisations in the world and have now decided to bring our knowledge and expertise to the general consumer marketplace. We aim to bring quality, highly specified software products to market at the most competitive price possible.

To contact Ripcord Software please email sales@ripcordsoftware.com or visit our web site at www.ripcordsoftware.com.