Press Release

Ripcord Software announces the release of IISxpress 2.0: a powerful, configurable and user friendly compression engine for Microsoft's IIS web server.

London, UK – June 5, 2006

Ripcord Software, a developer of software tools for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) announces the release of IISxpress 2.0. Until now HTTP compression has been a second class citizen in IIS; even in IIS 6 it is difficult to configure, monitor and control. IISxpress changes this by providing a user friendly, powerful and adaptable solution on top of an enterprise strength compression engine for both servers and workstation class computers.

Key 2.0 features:

• IISxpress 2.0 introduces an important change to the licensing model of previous releases: an entirely free Community Edition. The Community Edition is free for non-commercial and non-governmental use.
• Up to 100% performance improvement for small files (less than 32 KB in size).
• New rule wizards allow you to configure compression based on the actual content on your server.
• Enhanced support for multiple CPU cores to maximize performance.
• Support for 64 bit editions of Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
• Now compression mode can be user selected, even while the server is running.

Key Product features:

• For the first time IISxpress offers 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, URI or network address.
• 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 2000 Professional or Server
• Windows XP Professional
• Windows 2003 Server

Availability and pricing:

• IISxpress 2.0 is free for non-commercial and non-government use. Otherwise IISxpress is priced at $50 per installed computer.

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

About Ripcord Software

Ripcord Software is a small UK based software company dedicated to bringing enterprise class software to the widest possible market. We have spent many years developing bespoke software products for some of largest business organisations in the world and are now bringing our knowledge and expertise to a wider 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.