10,000 Downloads for Softshare EDI Notepad

EDI Notepad, Softshare's free EDI editing application, reaches 10,000 downloads

Santa Barbara, US / Amsterdam, NL.—July 18, 2007—Softshare, a provider of e-commerce products and services since 1982, celebrated yesterday the 10,000th download of Softshare EDI Notepad, its proprietary EDI editor. Made available as a free utility from Softshare's Web site in June of 2006, this intuitive EDI editing tool has since been downloaded an average of 25 times a day, by EDI users all over the world.

Over the past year, many potential downloaders have been dubious of EDI Notepad's free status, e-mailing a variety of questions to us:

• Does EDI Notepad really provide syntax validation for all standards and versions?
• Are there add-ons that must be purchased?
• Will I be able to uninstall the product?
• What's the catch?

Softshare's answers: Yes. No. Yes. No catch.

Those that overcame any hesitation and downloaded Softshare's free EDI utility, had nothing but positive feedback:

• Normally, after evaluating an EDI tool, I uninstall it, but EDI Notepad will remain, since it is well worth the disc space.
• This is the greatest invention since EDI!
• What an excellent tool Softshare has made! With EDI Notepad, I can produce a nice and readable version of the EDI message.

About Softshare EDI Notepad
Supporting ANSI X12, EDIFACT, and TRADACOMS standards, EDI Notepad features several EDI viewing modes including HTML, structured EDI, text, and hex. It also provides syntax validation, edit tools, document delivery capabilities, and automated functional acknowledgment generation. EDI Notepad was designed foremost to be an EDI viewing, editing, and troubleshooting tool, but it can also be used to build EDI documents from scratch.

To Download Softshare EDI Notepad
Visit Softshare's Web site at http://www.softshare.com/software/edinotepad to download the free application. No relationship with Softshare is required to install and run EDI Notepad.

About Softshare
Softshare Inc. (www.softshare.com) and Softshare B.V. (www.softshare.nl) offer a multi-tiered approach to electronic commerce with EDI/XML software solutions that range from desktop applications to integrated server applications. Fully compatible with Softshare’s value-added network, our software solutions are reliable and affordable and our customer support is always accessible. With headquarters in Santa Barbara and Amsterdam, Softshare has more than 4,000 clients using its various e-commerce software and network services. For more information, call 800-346-6703 (U.S.) / 020-6388077 (Netherlands) or e-mail sales@softshare.com.

Softshare Media Contact:
Diane Koornwinder, 800-346-6703/dianek@softshare.com.