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J.D. Edwards and MicroStrategy enter Strategic Alliance

J.D. Edwards and MicroStrategy’s Combined Solution Builds Foundation for Active Knowledge Management Delivery

DENVER, CO and VIENNA, VA, May 9, 2000 -- J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC), a leading provider of business-to-business software solutions for the extended enterprise, and MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E-Business™ software, today announced a software licensing and technology agreement that will allow J.D. Edwards to resell the MicroStrategy Intelligent E-Business Platform™ worldwide.

J.D. Edwards’ business-to-business software combines MicroStrategy’s Intelligent E-Business Platform with comprehensive business intelligence capabilities to create a unified solution that powers sophisticated data analysis capabilities. MicroStrategy’s technology will be integrated through various API layers to create comprehensive scorecard functionality. The combined solution is designed to enable companies and key decision makers to analyze critical information throughout the extended enterprise to improve operations and understand interactions with customers, suppliers, and within their own business. The ability to view mission critical data can lead to better management decisions that increase revenue and drive down operating costs.

“We are pleased that J.D. Edwards has selected our platform to provide companies with advanced analytical and reporting capabilities to more effectively manage their business,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “J.D. Edwards offers industry-leading knowledge management and enterprise software technologies integrated with MicroStrategy’s Intelligent E-Business Platform. We believe that this alliance has the ability to deliver tremendous benefits to those corporations seeking to accelerate and improve decision-making at every level.”

“Our goal is to support the decision-making process from business to business across the extended enterprise in an open, collaborative manner to deliver continuous competitive advantage for our customers,” said Ed McVaney, president, CEO and chairman of J.D. Edwards. “MicroStrategy’s Intelligent E-Business technology combined with our powerful business-to-business engine will offer organizations the ability to receive strategic insight about the operation of their company by delivering the right information to the right employees at the right time no matter where they are.”

Combined Technologies Make Active Knowledge Management a Reality

J.D. Edwards, utilizing the MicroStrategy Intelligent E-Business Platform, will deliver complete, integrated knowledge management solutions that allow customers to access, analyze, and share information via the Internet, enabling them to work more efficiently and providing the ability to improve the quality of decision-making at every level of the supply chain.

MicroStrategy’s Intelligent E-Business Platform provides the segmentation, personalization, broadcasting, and interaction engines that will analyze internal data assets and turn them into valuable insights designed to meet the varying needs of every employee. The joint solution will facilitate information sharing in a web-based environment, making it accessible throughout the extended enterprise in real time.

Joint Solution Designed to Deliver Valuable Insight, Improve Decision-Making

Customers using the joint solution receive real time updates about company, department, or area performance based on job function or role. This allows company executives to have the most current information available on company profitability, and to access company performance from the department level to the transaction level. J.D. Edwards is developing an Enterprise Scorecard using MicroStrategy’s technology to allow customers to compare industry-based best practices to current company status. Customers will be able to make meaningful comparisons of key performance indicators and evaluate the overall health of their business from a high-level display of data.

Customer Testing To Increase Product Value

J.D. Edwards is currently enrolling customers from all industries in a beta program to test the new integrated solution. Turner Industries, a fully integrated industrial construction company serving Fortune 500 chemical and petrol-chemical companies, has selected ActivEra™ Solutions to power their knowledge management efforts.

“We are in the early stages of developing a balanced scorecard initiative working in concert with MicroStrategy and J.D. Edwards. We will implement the combined technologies to deliver information anytime, anywhere to anyone to help us turn strategy into action,” said G. Patrick Thompson, Jr., vice president and chief information officer of Turner Industries. “Our J.D. Edwards solutions already provide us with the information we need to effectively manage our business and client relationships. We anticipate that this combined solution will empower our employees, increase revenue, improve internal processes and ultimately improve our overall customer satisfaction.”

The integrated solution will be available worldwide in English in the next release of OneWorld enterprise software.

About J.D. Edwards

J.D. Edwards is a leading provider of agile business-to-business software solutions that make new business models work. The Company’s integrated ActivEra™ Solutions deliver supply chain collaboration and fulfillment, and enable business-to-business trading communities in the consumer products, industrial and services industries. The Company’s solutions are web-enabled and operate in multiple computing environments.

Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1999 revenues of $944.2 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com or at 1-800-727-5333.

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