Akamai and OpSource Collaboration Enables SaaS ISVs to Quickly Deploy, Accelerate, and Scale Global Software Offerings

* Managed Services for Application Delivery, Hosting and Management Provide
Cost-Effective Option as IT Capex Budgets Squeezed
* Akamai Experiences an almost Twenty-Fold Growth is SaaS-Related Traffic on its
Global Platform over Last Three Years

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and OpSource today announced that
Akamai`s recent strategic agreement with OpSource to provide
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with
complementary solutions is helping their joint customers significantly improve
the time-to-value of cloud-based applications, while remaining cost effective
for IT departments looking to avoid traditional data center capital costs.

Using the award-winning Web operations services of OpSource On-Demand along with
Akamai`s market-leading solutions for optimizing application delivery outside
the data-center, helps ensure a best-in-class design for cloud delivery.
OpSource On-Demand enables SaaS and Web companies to quickly and securely
deliver their applications and services over the Web to consumers and businesses
alike. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, it includes the
application management, compliance and business services that are necessary for
on-demand business success. Leveraging both the OpSource and Akamai solutions
means that SaaS ISVs can more quickly deploy their software and accelerate their
applications on the Internet, while improving availability, scalability, and
security on a global scale.

"As enterprises aggressively pursue SaaS and other emerging cloud-based services
as an effective business model in today`s challenged economy, Akamai and
OpSource are providing ISV's of any size with a highly efficient, zero capital
expenditure solution for ensuring global quality of service," said Willie M.
Tejada, vice president, Application and Site Acceleration, Akamai. "This new
relationship with OpSource, as well as Akamai`s continued commitment to
introduce functionality for optimizing the cloud, will help our SaaS customers
succeed at what they do best - develop innovative software."

Akamai and OpSource entered into a two-way referral agreement at the end of
2008. The companies` complementary offerings provide joint customers the ability
to outsource their Web infrastructure and application management in order to
focus on their core business and driving increased revenue. In addition, SaaS
ISVs leveraging OpSource can proactively incorporate Akamai`s acceleration
capabilities early in the application or software development cycle. This
enables SaaS ISVs to architect their on-demand applications upfront to best
leverage Akamai`s distributed platform for optimizing delivery in the cloud.

"As more and more companies enter the SaaS space, one thing is clear: ISVs must
have efficient, secure Web operations so they can concentrate on bringing
innovative solutions to the marketplace. By offering ISVs the power of Akamai
and OpSource solutions, we are giving companies a leg up in a challenging
economy," said Richard Dym, CMO, OpSource. "We are always looking to bring our
customers the best technology possible, and working with Akamai lets us do just
that. We are excited to see how we can work together to advance cloud computing
in the years to come."

Joint customers of Akamai and OpSource, such as Serena Software, have begun to
receive the application delivery and data center hosting support they need to
ensure ease of deployment, speed time-to-market, and ensure a positive customer
experience.

"Serena provides software on premise and on demand to over 15,000 customers
around the world," said Atul Kumar, Vice President of SaaS Operations at Serena
Software. "Our software enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by
standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and
distributed environments. Leveraging both Akamai and OpSource provides us the
ease of management, global scale and performance we require to ensure our on
demand customers have the best possible experience."

Akamai Introduces Product Enhancements for SaaS Customers

Through enhancements to Akamai`s Web Application Accelerator service, Akamai is
also announcing today new functionalities geared toward the business models and
scaling needs of SaaS ISVs.

These product enhancements include:

* New access control functionality enabling end users to access the SaaS ISV`s
offerings from secure enterprise locations.
* Improved visibility into customer traffic helping SaaS ISVs better understand
customer adoption and behavior patterns.

"Akamai`s Web Application Accelerator for SaaS is designed for SaaS ISVs to help
them grow, ensure access to proper users, and integrate with the complex
security needs of enterprises engaged in business-to-business," continued
Tejada.

Number of SaaS customers leveraging Akamai grows by 50 percent in 2008

In addition to Akamai`s total number of SaaS customers growing by 50 percent in
2008, SaaS-related traffic on Akamai`s global platform has grown by almost
twenty-fold over the last three years.

A closer look at Akamai-accelerated SaaS transactions reveals the global nature
of enterprise application users. Akamai is currently serving SaaS transactions
to geographically-dispersed users residing in over 200 countries, up from 150
countries one year ago. Presently, forty percent of SaaS transactions delivered
over the Akamai Platform are executed outside of the United States, emphasizing
the need for SaaS providers to develop application delivery strategies for a
global user community. This number has increased from 25 percent one year ago.

The data on SaaS transactions running across Akamai's globally distributed
computing platform is based on a diverse range of SaaS applications including
customer relationship management, supply chain and supplier relationship
management, project portfolio management, human resources and talent management,
e-learning and marketing solutions, among others.

About OpSource

OpSource delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web applications for
on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and
billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand, the leading Web
operations solution, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By
choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed
from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and
services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus
their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and
services. Further, by using OpSource Connect companies can leverage Web services
such as OpSource Billing CLM, OpSource Analytics and OpSource End User Support
and integrate their applications with other SaaS applications over the Internet
as well as with enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall. OpSource
On-Demand is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of
on-demand application. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., OpSource has Web
application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more
information about OpSource, visit www.opsource.net.

The Akamai Difference

Akamai® provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media,
dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the
content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by
the world's most recognized brands across diverse industries. The alternative to
centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai's global network of tens of thousands of
distributed servers provides the scale, reliability, insight and performance for
businesses to succeed online. Akamai has transformed the Internet into a more
viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and collaborate. To experience The
Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act

The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects
of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes
of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these
forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including,
but not limited to, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our
services or network by hackers or others, termination of our relationship with
OpSource, failure to have available sufficient transmission capacity, changes in
technologies related to SaaS-related technologies or Akamai's managed services,
a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are
discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form
10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.

Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Jeff Young, 617-444-3913
Media Relations
jyoung@akamai.com
or
OpSource
Eileen Conway, 650-245-9015
Media Relations
econway@opsource.net

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