EANS-News: asknet AG / asknet ranked number 49 on Fast 50 list of Germany's fastest-growing technology companies

With a growth rate of 217,19 percent, asknet AG has reached 49th
place in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

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Utl.: With a growth rate of 217,19 percent, asknet AG has reached
49th place in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50. =

Karlsruhe (euro adhoc) - Karlsruhe, October 22, 2009 - Today asknet
AG has announced its nomination to the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a
list that ranks the fastest-growing technology firms in Germany.
Placement on the list is based on cumulative percentage revenue
growth over the past five years, 2004 to 2008. In this period, asknet
AG achieved a growth rate of 217,19 percent.

Michael Konrad, CEO of asknet AG, sees the 217,19 percent growth rate
of the last five years in an especially positive light. As he notes,
"asknet AG places great value on quality and sustainability because
we are certain that both factors are essential to our growth.
Receiving such a good placement from Deloitte serves as a
confirmation of our growth strategy and motivates us to stay on
course. We would like to thank our clients and partners for placing
their trust in asknet, and of course our entire outstanding team."

"Rates of growth among technology companies show that the industry is
continuing to open up new markets with product innovations. There is
still a lot of unrealized potential - some examples of especially
promising areas are electronic games, games for handheld devices, and
Internet-based software solutions," adds Dieter Schlereth, Partner
and Head of Technology, Media, and Telecommunications at Deloitte.

About asknet asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing
solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995
as a spin-off of the University of Karlsruhe, one of Germany´s most
prestigious technical universities, the company has become the number
two independent global provider for electronic software distribution.
In addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software
publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software
distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest. In
2008, asknet had sales of about 74.7 million euros. Among its
customers are well-known software publishers such as CollabNet, DivX,
Ipswitch, F-Secure, Nero, Panda Security, Steganos, and NetObjects.
asknet supplies software products to around eighty percent of German
universities.

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of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Contact
asknet AG
Kirsten Neininger
Phone: +49 (0)721.96458-6399
eMail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.de
www.asknet.de

asknet, Inc.
Bernard Haug
Phone: +1 (415) 352-2622
eMail: bernard.haug@asknet.com
www.asknet.com

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Further inquiry note:

Kirsten Neininger

Corporate Marketing Manager

Telefon: +49 (0) 721 96 458 6399

eMail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.de

Branche: Electronic Commerce
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