The Home Depot Selects BoostWorks' BoostWeb to Accelerate The Last Mile for Online Store

Business Wire, June 5, 2001

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001

BoostWorks Helps Leading Retailer Enhance Customer Experience With

Superior Response Time, While Doubling Effective Network Capacity

BoostWorks(TM) (www.boostworks.com), a leading provider of server-based solutions accelerating the delivery of web content and application data, today announced The Home Depot(R) (NYSE:HD), the world's largest home improvement retailer, has purchased BoostWorks' flagship product BoostWeb(TM). The Home Depot is using BoostWeb for its high-volume online store, HomeDepot.com. The Home Depot deployed BoostWeb to improve response times for visitors to the site and to increase network efficiency.

HomeDepot.com currently supports a variety of national online shopping and fulfillment experiences for millions of customers. Regional assortments of thousands of products, similar to those found in local Home Depot stores are combined with vast arrays of related product and project information to produce a compelling, personalized customer experience.

Brad Albers, Director of IS at The Home Depot indicates, "Our customer-driven Internet strategy is comprehensively focused on all facets of a great web-based content delivery system from our enterprise class web site through to the last mile of the customer experience. We recognize that many of our customers have dial-up connections to their Internet service providers and our online store. Great response times are invariably a critical component of any high quality online shopping experience. BoostWeb is a major part of our strategy to provide a responsive end-to-end customer experience. BoostWeb significantly improved response times for customers connected to homedepot.com by dial-up and helped optimize our network capacity while meeting our requirements for scalability and robustness. I believe any web site concerned about a positive visitor experience should consider BoostWeb."

BoostWeb is a server-based software solution Accelerating the Last Mile(TM). BoostWeb recognizes the capabilities of the end-user agent and dynamically optimizes the web content for the fastest response time and interactivity with the site. The performance enhancements result from BoostWorks' patent-pending Intelligent Network Acceleration (INA(TM)) technology. Depending on the type of data and network speeds, BoostWeb reduces the size of the web content and application data by up to 95% and boosts the response time by up to 7 times.

"BoostWeb was straightforward to install and completely transparent to our visitors. We have been very pleased with both BoostWorks and the BoostWeb product. BoostWeb has significantly improved our web site performance without requiring client software or a costly network upgrade," continues Albers.

"We are delighted to be chosen by The Home Depot. Industry leading companies such as The Home Depot continue to validate BoostWorks as the standard for accelerating the delivery of web content," said Vincent Titolo, President and CEO of BoostWorks.

To see how BoostWeb can improve your web response time, using any URL, go to www.boostworks.com and access the free web performance evaluation test. BoostWorks will be exhibiting at JD Edwards Focus 2001 in Denver, June 11-13, and eBiz Networks in Burlingame, June 11-12.

About The Home Depot

Founded in 1978, The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement retailer with fiscal 2000 sales of $45.7 billion. At the close of fiscal 2000, The Home Depot operated 1,134 retail locations, including 1,029 Home Depot stores in the United States, 67 Home Depot stores in Canada and 7 Home Depot stores in South America. The company was recently named in the Top 10 Most Admired Companies in America by Fortune magazine, which has also ranked it as America's Most Admired Specialty Retailer for seven consecutive years. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:HD) and is included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

About BoostWorks

BoostWorks provides a suite of server-based solutions ensuring optimal performance in the "last mile" delivery of web content and applications. Its flagship product, BoostWeb, provides the most cost effective method of improving end-to-end network performance for any kind of network -- Internet, Intranet, or Extranet. BoostWorks is privately held and counts 300 enterprise, ISP, wireless, and OEM customers worldwide. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Europe and Asia. For further information, please visit BoostWorks' web site at www.boostworks.com.

BoostWorks, BoostWeb, Accelerating the Last Mile and Intelligent Network Acceleration are trademarks of BoostWorks, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies.