MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its industry-leading MicroStrategy 7i™ business intelligence platform is expected to soon run on IBM’s AIX operating system. IBM is the world’s top provider of hardware

McLEAN, Va., (August 02, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its industry-leading MicroStrategy 7i(TM) business intelligence platform is expected to soon run on IBM’s AIX operating system. IBM is the world’s top provider of hardware and services, and the second-largest software provider in the world.

“We are delighted with MicroStrategy’s commitment to release their core product platform on IBM’s fast growing AIX operating system. The strength of both the MicroStrategy and AIX platforms will provide organizations with unsurpassed application performance,” said Mike Kerr, IBM Vice-President, Customer Set Marketing of IBM’s eServer Group. “We chose to invest in this effort as we know that our mutual customers stand to greatly benefit from our combined technology.”

“Providing our business intelligence capabilities to organizations on Unix is a very significant technological milestone for MicroStrategy and is expected to help further boost our already expanding, impressive customer base, ” said Sanju K. Bansal, vice chairman and chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software will run on IBM’s leading Unix platform with complete feature parity to the product on Microsoft NT and Microsoft Windows platforms. We are pleased to continue working with IBM to provide our customers and partners with world-class business intelligence software.”

The first phase of this effort was completed in the fourth quarter of 2000 with the release of the Java version of the MicroStrategy Software Development Kit (MicroStrategy SDK(TM)), which is certified to run with IBM’s WebSphere on AIX. Through the SDK, MicroStrategy also recently added support for Linux on IBM’s OS/390. The next milestone will be the delivery of MicroStrategy’s Web-based functionality on AIX, which can result in significantly improved performance measures for business intelligence and enable customers to leverage their existing AIX administrative expertise. This functionality for AIX is expected to be available later this year.

The culmination of this effort is expected to be realized early in 2003 with the release of an IBM AIX operating system-certified version of MicroStrategy Intelligence Server(TM). IBM is contributing significantly to this effort by providing technology and expertise to the MicroStrategy technology team.

About MicroStrategy

Leadership in a Critical Market: Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Large and small companies alike are harnessing MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software to gain vital insights from their data to help them proactively enhance cost-efficiency, productivity and customer relations and optimize revenue-generating strategies. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform offers exceptional capabilities that provide organizations — in virtually all facets of their operations — with user- friendly solutions to their data query, reporting, and advanced analytical needs, and distributes valuable insight on this data to users via Web, wireless, and voice. PC Magazine selected MicroStrategy 7(TM) as the 2001 “Editors’ Choice” for business intelligence software.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy 7i(TM) is a truly integrated, enterprise-class, Web-based business intelligence platform. With MicroStrategy 7i, enterprises can now standardize on one business intelligence platform and deploy high-value business intelligence enterprise-wide. MicroStrategy 7i’s configurable query, reporting, and OLAP Web interface is designed to support all users, from casual report viewers to power analysts.

Diverse Customer Base: MicroStrategy’s customer base cuts across industry and sector lines, with over 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Compaq, and JD Edwards.

MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, please visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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Alka Nayyar
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 847-4897
anayyar@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy