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Compaq Selects the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform for Inclusion in its Zero Latency Enterprise Initiative

MicroStrategy 7 Platform to Power Analytical and CRM Applications Built through the ZLE Initiative

HOUSTON, TX and VIENNA, VA, February 6, 2001 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) has selected the MicroStrategy 7™ business intelligence platform for inclusion in its Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) initiative. With a ZLE-enabled single view of the customer, companies can build customer loyalty via real time business intelligence and CRM (customer relationship management) solutions. ZLE technology is broadly applicable and can provide the foundation for many real time solutions across different industries. Through this alliance, Compaq’s worldwide sales and professional services organizations will be trained to sell and deliver MicroStrategy 7.

MicroStrategy 7 provides the analytical strength, scalability and flexibility to power solutions across a wide range of industries. MicroStrategy 7 is ideal for building numerous applications, including business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM), narrowcasting, enterprise resource planning (ERP) analytics, mobile commerce and click-stream analysis.

“Compaq's Zero Latency Enterprise [ZLE] architecture, which incorporates MicroStrategy technology, achieved an industry breakthrough by integrating multiple data sources and applications to produce a single, convergent view of the customer -- in real time,” said Rick Frazier, vice president of marketing for Compaq’s business critical server group. “With this capability, ZLE solutions can deliver personalized services to individual customers at just the right time. In addition, Compaq and MicroStrategy continue to help customers build highly scalable, manageable, Internet-driven solutions that leverage the unique features of both MicroStrategy 7 and Compaq's industry-leading ProLiant NT-cluster server systems.”

In the Compaq ZLE environment, MicroStrategy’s platform runs against a broad class of data warehouse schemas, empowering users with a rich set of business metrics and a broad set of information refining tools. With Compaq ZLE, MicroStrategy provides an active information portal platform that delivers personalized one-to-one information through web, wireless and voice channels in real time when this information is at its most desirable level.

“We are very excited that Compaq’s ZLE initiative incorporates the MicroStrategy business intelligence platform,” said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. “This will allow businesses to react to personalized information in real time via web, wireless and voice. With MicroStrategy, Compaq’s ZLE initiative will help enterprises channel the tremendous flow of information and leverage it for competitive advantage.”

Anyone interested in MicroStrategy’s software, including MicroStrategy 7, can go to MicroStrategy’s online store, located at www.microstrategy.com, to demo, configure, upgrade and order software directly. Store visitors can purchase MicroStrategy software, technical support, education, consulting and documentation online or over the phone in an easy-to-try, easy-to-buy format. MicroStrategy software can also be bought through authorized resellers around the world.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software and related services. MicroStrategy’s technology platform enables companies to build solutions that provide powerful insight into business operations and create lasting, profitable relationships with partners, supply-chains, and customers. MicroStrategy delivers these solutions via web, wireless, and voice. 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 approximately 300 systems integrators, application development and platform partners.

For more information, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, please visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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