Press Release

Ripcord Software announces the release of IISxpress 2.5: a powerful, configurable and user friendly compression engine for Microsoft's IIS web server.

London, UK – March 17, 2009

Ripcord Software, a developer of software tools for Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) announces the release of IISxpress 2.5. Until now HTTP compression has been a second class citizen in IIS; 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 2.5 features:

• Support for the BZIP2 compression scheme as used by Google's Chrome browser.
• Support for mixed 32/64 bit application pools on IIS 7 from a single installation package.

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.
• Compression Cache - previously compressed responses are stored in the compression cache allowing for super fast response times.
• Processor Workload Model - select CPU cores to use for compression tasks, keeping others free for other duties.
• FREE to use on all supported versions of Microsoft Workstation operating systems: Vista and XP Professional.

Platform requirements:

• Windows 2008 Servers (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows 2003 Servers (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit)
• Windows XP Professional (32 and 64 bit)

Availability and pricing:

• IISxpress is free to use on all Workstation versions of Microsoft Windows (Vista and XP).
• IISxpress is free for non-commercial and non-government use on all Windows Servers (2008 and 2003).
• Otherwise IISxpress is priced at $79 per installed Server.

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.