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MicroStrategy Forms Marketing Alliance with Unisys to Deliver Repeatable Intelligent E-Business Solutions to the Federal Government

VIENNA, VA, October 25, 1999 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E-Business™ software, today announced a marketing alliance with Unisys to provide Intelligent E-Business™ solutions that will help federal government agencies manage vast amounts of information. Unisys, a leading provider of information technology solutions to the federal market, will join MicroStrategy’s Partners Program and resell its Intelligent E-Business Platform™.

MicroStrategy’s Intelligent E-Business Platform can be used to analyze and distribute critical business information to government professionals via a variety of communications channels, including the Web, pagers, e-mail, phone, desktop and PDA.

"Perhaps more than other organization on the planet, the federal government has to deal with voluminous amounts of data – it’s one of their greatest challenges," said Paul Kruelle, vice president and general manager, Architecture and Software Development Practice, Unisys Federal Systems. "By partnering with MicroStrategy we can offer our government customers scalable e-business solutions that will help them efficiently and intelligently extract and use that data."

"We are pleased that Unisys is integrating our Intelligent E-Business Platform into repeatable solutions for its government customers," said Sanju Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy Incorporated. "Together, we will enable organizations to alter the way they are sharing information by extracting and delivering tremendous insight from their data warehouses, improving customer relationships and increasing corporate profitability."

About Unisys

Unisys has 35,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their business problems. Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of global information services including electronic business, systems integration including custom and "repeatable" application solutions, outsourcing, Microsoft Windows NT services, network services, and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage. Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical markets including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, government, publishing, and other commercial markets. The company is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area. For more information on the company, access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web at www.unisys.com. Investor information can be found at www.unisys.com/investor.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of Intelligent E-Business™ software and related services. MicroStrategy’s product line enables both proactive and interactive delivery of information from large-scale databases, providing Global 2000 enterprises a platform for developing solutions that deliver insight and intelligence to their enterprise, supply-chain, and customers.

MicroStrategy’s platform enables users to query and analyze the most detailed, transaction-level databases, turning data into business intelligence. In addition to supporting internal enterprise users, MicroStrategy’s platform delivers critical business information beyond corporate boundaries to customers, partners and supply chain constituencies through a broad range of pull and push technology such as the Internet, e-mail, telephones, pagers and other wireless communications devices. MicroStrategy’s platform is ideal for developing e-business solutions that are personalized and proactive, and that reach millions of users. MicroStrategy also offers a comprehensive set of consulting, training and support services for its customers and partners.

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

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