askSam Wins SIA 2004 Award for Best Application

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2004

Perry, FL -- At the 14th annual Shareware Industry Awards ceremony, askSam 5.1 received the award for "Best Application". askSam is a free-form database that can turn different types of information (email, word processing documents, PDF files) into full-text searchable databases. askSam provides non-technical users with a tool to organize notes, research, email, and Web pages.

The Shareware Industry Awards ceremony honors the top shareware products in a variety of categories. Representatives of over 100 software companies attended the awards ceremony which was held in Rochester, New York on July 17th.

"We're proud that our industry peers and customers have selected us for this honor." commented Phil Schnyder, president of askSam Systems. He added, "We've been working on askSam for the past 20 years, it's quite rewarding to be recognized in this way."

Nominees and winners of the 2004 Shareware Industry Awards can be found on the Shareware Industry Conference Web site at http://www.sic.org/2004nominees.asp.

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Background:

Since 1985 askSam Systems has created some of the world's most popular free-form database and information management tools. askSam products are used worldwide by over 350,000 users to collect, organize and distribute information. For more

information on askSam Systems see: http://www.askSam.com/

Press Contact:

Ann Hartman

askSam Systems

P.O. Box 1428

Perry, FL 32348

850-584-6590 ext. 100

Fax: 850-584-7481

Email: ann@askSam.com  

http://www.askSam.com/

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