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MicroStrategy Announced Support for the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0

Plumtree and MicroStrategy Collaborating to Develop Gadget Suite to Integrate MicroStrategy 7 Web Platform in Plumtree Corporate Portal

VIENNA, Va., October 2, 2000 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E-Business™ software, today announced its support for the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0. Launched today by Plumtree Software, the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0 is the newest version of Plumtree’s portal. The MicroStrategy Gadget Suite, specifically designed to incorporate the MicroStrategy platform into the Plumtree portal, will be integrated with version 4.0 of Plumtree’s corporate portal. The new version of the portal is expected to provide a faster, more scalable portal for joint customers to use when accessing MicroStrategy 7™, the company’s flagship business intelligence platform.

“We have had great success embedding our MicroStrategy 6™ platform into the Plumtree portal for numerous customers, and we are delighted that the new version of the portal is more scalable and fault-tolerant,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “Portals serve as a very important component in accessing enterprise information assets. Our integration with the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0 provides a powerful combination for customers needing an easy method to access incredibly valuable information stored in their data warehouses.”

Similar in appearance to the sports scoreboards or stock portfolios of consumer portals, Plumtree Portal Gadgets™ are modular components that embed key information and services from enterprise applications and Internet sites such as sales leads, industry news or e-mail messages in portal pages. MicroStrategy’s platform allows customers to integrate key capabilities of MicroStrategy’s technology into the Plumtree Corporate Portal as MicroStrategy gadgets.

The MicroStrategy Gadget Suite within the Plumtree portal enables business users to view, report and analyze business intelligence information stored in their corporate databases from a single, personalized Web portal. The Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0 platform allows a broader audience to integrate MicroStrategy capabilities and relevant enterprise services and applications into their daily experience by having MicroStrategy technology plugged directly into the enterprise portal.

Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0 currently supports MicroStrategy 6™, and is expected to support MicroStrategy 7™ in the near future. Plumtree’s Massively Parallel Portal Engine (MPPE), which processes all user requests in parallel, will allow portal users to receive faster results and will provide administrators with a more scalable system. This enhanced functionality will increase the support for the scalability and power of the MicroStrategy 7 platform.

"The integration of MicroStrategy's leading query, reporting and analysis tools into the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0 empowers joint customers to broaden insight into the sales and customer relationship process enterprise-wide," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Massively parallel processing of the MicroStrategy gadgets means that customers can scale portal access to their backend systems with more confidence in rapid, reliable performance, helping ensure that employees and partners always have the data they need to assess and act on revenue opportunities."

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E-Business™ software and related services. MicroStrategy’s technology platform is creating a new generation of one-to-one e-business solutions that enable global 2000 organizations to build personal relationships with their partners, supply-chains, and customers. MicroStrategy delivers these solutions via web, wireless, and voice. In addition to its industry leading technology, MicroStrategy also offers a comprehensive set of consulting, training and support services for its customers and partners.

MicroStrategy has approximately 1,000 customers across such diverse industries as retail, finance, telecommunications, dot-com, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods. MicroStrategy also has entered into relationships with more than 270 systems integrators, application development and platform partners.

For more information, please visit MicroStrategy’s Web site: http://www.microstrategy.com.

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