Recent Benchmark Tests Show Extremely High Performance

McLean, VA, (September 07, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced the availability of MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition(TM) for the IBM AIX(TM) 5L operating system. MicroStrategy offers a leading 64-bit business intelligence (BI) product line, enabling organizations to efficiently monitor, report and analyze their enterprise data.

“With the release of MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition, IBM customers running AIX 5L will now be able to deploy a broader business intelligence platform,” said Karen Parrish, vice president of IBM Business Intelligence Solutions. “Before releasing the product, MicroStrategy thoroughly tested MicroStrategy 7i Universal Edition on IBM AIX 5L at the Innovation Center for Business Partners, an IBM vendor support program that offers porting & testing of IBM middleware/hardware both onsite and remote.”

The recent benchmark tests at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA demonstrated near-linear scalability of the MicroStrategy product line. In these tests, MicroStrategy was able achieve a throughput of over 47,000 report pages per second using a total of only 34 CPUs.

“IDC estimates that approximately 22 percent of the BI market is based on UNIX,” explained MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “By enabling the MicroStrategy platform for IBM AIX 5L, we’re eager to expand our market reach and provide IBM’s customers with the scalability to deliver even better reporting and analytics. Our integrated IT architecture easily adapts to changing user requirements while enabling administrators to leverage the processing power of their IBM pSeries hardware.”

About MicroStrategy

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a worldwide leader in the increasingly critical business intelligence software market. Leading Fortune 2000 companies are integrating MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength software into virtually all facets of their businesses. The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) distills vast amounts of data into vital, probing insight to help drive cost-efficiency, productivity, customer relations and revenue-generation. MicroStrategy offers exceptional capabilities — excellent scalability, powerful analytics, user-friendly query and reporting features and an outstanding, easy-to-use Web interface. Top companies are using MicroStrategy to cost-effectively harness large, multi-terabyte databases; empower thousands of employees at all operational levels; and extend the benefits of business intelligence enterprise-wide and beyond to customers, partners and suppliers.

MicroStrategy has over 2,800 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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Liz Kelley Smeds
MicroStrategy
703-714-1066
lsmeds@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy