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Sterling Commerce Selects MicroStrategy for Customer Relationship Reporting and Analysis

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Sterling Commerce has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� as its web-enabled, query and reporting standard to host customer support reporting app

McLean, Va., (July 24, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Sterling Commerce has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its web-enabled, query and reporting standard to host customer support reporting applications. Sterling Commerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) is one of the world’s largest providers of business integration solutions. Four out of five Fortune 500 companies depend on Sterling Commerce to facilitate, manage and support the electronic exchange of information within a business, as well as within its diverse community.

With the new MicroStrategy-based applications, Sterling Commerce’s Customer Support Department will be able to access a wide range of reports and investigative data patterns using the full range of ad-hoc query, reporting, and statistical analyses.

“At Sterling Commerce, our unwavering commitment to quality customer service is reflected in everything we do,” said Greg Dietz, vice president of customer support, Sterling Commerce. “We chose MicroStrategy because of its powerful analytics, its flexible reporting options, ease-of-use and easy-to-deploy, scalable Web-user interface. MicroStrategy will enable us to better analyze and track our customer service data to ensure that the highest possible service and performance is achieved.”

“MicroStrategy’s capacity to glean valuable insight from vast amounts of data will enable Sterling Commerce to better understand its customers’ needs and preferences and help it provide the highest quality of customer service,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re proud that Sterling Commerce will harness our platform to better serve their growing number of industry-leading customers.”

About Sterling Commerce

Sterling Commerce, a wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), is one of the world’s largest providers of business integration solutions. For Global 5000 companies and their customers, suppliers and partners, Sterling Commerce software and services help maximize business performance and improve business metrics through integration of applications, external partner systems and people. With more than 25 years of experience serving more than 30,000 customers in a vast range of industries, Sterling Commerce is a recognized pioneer in electronic commerce through its longstanding expertise in EDI. Today, as customers explore new ways to improve business performance via the Internet, Sterling Commerce continues to innovate its software and services to further the global adoption of e-commerce while offering its customers strategic solutions that leverage existing technology. For more information, visit www.sterlingcommerce.com.

SBC Communications Inc. (www.sbc.com) is one of the world’s leading data, voice and Internet services providers. Through its world-class networks, SBC companies provide a full range of voice, data, networking and e-business services, as well as directory advertising and publishing. A Fortune 30 company, America’s leading provider of high-speed DSL Internet Access services, and one of the nation’s leading Internet Service Providers, SBC companies currently serve 58 million access lines nationwide. In addition, SBC companies own 60 percent of America’s second-largest wireless company, Cingular Wireless, which serves more than 22 million wireless customers. Internationally, SBC companies have telecommunications investments in 25 countries.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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National Retailer O’Reilly Automotive Selects MicroStrategy for Reporting, Analysis and Information Delivery

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Oâ??Reilly Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: ORLY) has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platformâ?¢ for sales and inventory reporting and analysis.

McLean, Va., (July 16, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ: ORLY) has selected the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) for sales and inventory reporting and analysis. O’Reilly Automotive is a nationally recognized specialty retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories to do-it-yourself customers, professional mechanics and service technicians.

“The retail industry is very competitive, and understanding and acting on corporate data are invaluable to staying ahead of the competition,” said Greg Henslee, president of O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. “We chose MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence technology for its ability to consolidate and present valuable corporate performance data in an easy-to-understand format, over the Web. MicroStrategy will improve our ability to track sales, merchandising and inventory metrics. As a result, we’ll be better able to identify revenue enhancement and cost reduction opportunities.”

With MicroStrategy’s platform, O’Reilly Automotive will have a consolidated, dynamic view of sales and stock information, enabling consistent availability of goods across its 1,011 stores. The company will also be able to more effectively monitor and manage inventory levels in order to improve product sales and profitability.

“We welcome O’Reilly as the latest retailer to use MicroStrategy to improve its merchandising operations,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Approximately 130 of the top 200 global retailers have standardized on MicroStrategy, and we are increasingly recognized as having the preferred business intelligence platform to meet the demanding needs of the retail sector.”

About O’Reilly Automotive, Inc.

O’Reilly Automotive is one of the largest specialty retailers of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories in the United States, serving both the do-it-yourself and professional installer markets. Founded in 1957 by the O’Reilly family, the Company operates 1,011 stores within the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas as of March 31, 2003.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy Named to Russell 3000

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that MicroStrategy has been added to the widely respected Russell 3000® Index. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies based on to

McLean, Va., (July 11, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that MicroStrategy has been added to the widely respected Russell 3000® Index. The Russell 3000 Index measures the performance of the 3,000 largest U.S. companies based on total market capitalization, which represents approximately 98 percent of the investable U.S. equity market.

“We’re very proud to be added to the Russell 3000 index,” said MicroStrategy President and CFO Eric Brown. “Inclusion in this index will help raise MicroStrategy’s visibility with investors and institutions that rely on the Russell indices as part of their investment strategy. Our inclusion in this index reflects another milestone as we continue to execute on our strategy of delivering solid operating and financial performance.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy Signs $5 Million Deal with U.S. Postal Service

In a landmark new deal involving an initial order just over $5 million, MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the U.S. Postal Service will deploy the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� enterprise-wide for

McLEAN, Va., (July 07, 2003) –

In a landmark new deal involving an initial order just over $5 million, MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the U.S. Postal Service will deploy the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) enterprise-wide for reporting, analysis and information delivery.

“The Postal Service is investing in business intelligence to improve the service we provide our customers as well as the efficiency of our operations,” said Robert Otto, Chief Technology Officer for the Postal Service. “This platform will eventually be used by up to 30,000 employees to enhance efficiencies in areas that include retail, financial, and network operations, transportation logistics, and supply-chain management.”

The Postal Service purchased over $5 million of MicroStrategy software licenses, education, and software support services in June 2003. Additionally, the Postal Service has acquired options to procure consulting services, education, and software support services over the next 5 years.

“We’re proud to work with an organization as prestigious as the Postal Service,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “It’s MicroStrategy’s experience that large companies such as the Postal Service have found that business intelligence, when deployed on an enterprise scale, can have a remarkable impact on operational efficiency.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Dick’s Sporting Goods Chooses MicroStrategy as its Enterprise Reporting Standard

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Dickâ??s Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) has chosen MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platformâ?¢ as its enterprise reporting standard. Dickâ??s Sporting Goods is an a

McLean, Va., (July 01, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) has chosen MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its enterprise reporting standard. Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic sporting goods retailer that offers a broad selection of high-quality, competitively-priced brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear.

After reviewing reporting solutions from among the many available business intelligence products, Dick’s chose MicroStrategy to replace their Cognos installation.

Dick’s Sporting Goods employees, including store managers, merchandising analysts, and senior management, will use MicroStrategy software to analyze an 800-gigabyte Oracle® data warehouse. End users will be able to perform sales, category and inventory management analyses in order to more effectively track product sales, product mix and inventory levels.

“Dick’s Sporting Goods’ commitment to MicroStrategy is further proof of the importance of business intelligence to large corporations today,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Leading retailers like Dick’s Sporting Goods are choosing MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform to gain visibility into their operations and make revenue-generating decisions that please management, shareholders, and most importantly, a discerning customer base.”

About Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc.

Pittsburgh-based Dick’s Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel, and footwear in a specialty store environment. As of May 22, 2003, Dick’s Sporting Goods operated 149 stores in 26 states throughout the Eastern half of the U.S. For more information, visit www.dickssportinggoods.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Deloitte & Touche in Spain Selects MicroStrategy to Deploy Enterprise-Wide Corporate Performance Management Application

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Deloitte & Touche in Spain has purchased additional licenses of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� to deploy a mission-critical corporate performance man

McLean, Va. (June 26, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Deloitte & Touche in Spain has purchased additional licenses of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to deploy a mission-critical corporate performance management application across its enterprise. Deloitte & Touche in Spain is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world’s leading professional services organizations.

“MicroStrategy is one of the leaders in the business intelligence market, and an important component of our services and products portfolio,” said Joaquín Aspiroz, Partner in Management Solutions at Deloitte & Touche in Spain. “Over the years, Deloitte & Touche in Spain has implemented MicroStrategy-based systems at many leading companies. This new deal with MicroStrategy will expand the reach of our corporate performance reporting system, which we view as one of our most important, internal reporting projects.”

The enterprise-wide reporting application will enable approximately 800 partners, managers and other professionals to perform corporate performance management analyses and run reports against a SQL Server data warehouse. Users will be able to more effectively track valuable business information, such as time distribution reports, net fees, job inventory, backlog, accounts receivable, profit and loss items, and service line and industry line reports.

“We value our relationship with Deloitte & Touche in Spain,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “MicroStrategy’s sophisticated capabilities — proven scalability to thousands of users and to terabytes of data, ease-of-use, exceptional analytical flexibility and industrial-strength reliability — make it an ideal business intelligence platform for Deloitte & Touche’s internal reporting initiatives as well as for the complex business requirements of Deloitte & Touche customers.”

About Deloitte & Touche in Spain

Deloitte & Touche in Spain is a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world’s leading professional services organizations. The member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu deliver world-class assurance and advisory, tax, and consulting services. With more than 119,000 people in more than 140 countries, the member firms serve over one-half of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, and successful, fast-growing global growth companies. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit: www.deloittetouche.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Leading Analyst Firm Updates MicroStrategy Vendor Rating

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Gartner has updated its MicroStrategy Vendor Rating.

MCLEAN, Va., (June 23, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Gartner has updated its MicroStrategy Vendor Rating.

“Gartner has established the vision and direction for the business intelligence platform market, and MicroStrategy is a leading provider of industrial-strength business intelligence technology,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “Companies are increasingly turning to MicroStrategy when they’re ready to deploy their business intelligence applications on an enterprise scale.”

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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MicroStrategy Customer Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse Wins 2003 Executive Technology Magazine Award

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the CIO of MicroStrategy customer Loweâ??s Home Improvement Warehouse, Steve Stone, has won a 2003 Executive Technology Magazine CIO/IT Leadership & Innovation Award for

McLean, Va., (June 20, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that the CIO of MicroStrategy customer Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Steve Stone, has won a 2003 Executive Technology Magazine CIO/IT Leadership & Innovation Award for his business intelligence deployment. The Executive Technology Magazine Award pinpointed thirteen exemplary chief information officers, chief technology officers and vice presidents of IT whose pioneering spirit and cutting-edge ideas deserve special recognition.

Lowe’s has deployed MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to anchor all of its business intelligence applications. One MicroStrategy application, called DART (Data Access and Reporting Tool), plays a key role in empowering employees to obtain any piece of data critical to lifting sales or improving inventory efficiency. Over the last twelve months, Lowe’s has grown its business-intelligence user base by 100 percent.

“With MicroStrategy technology, our employees are able to understand what is going on at any given store location across the country helping us to realize significant benefits through improved merchandising decisions, more timely responses to information requests, cost-reductions efforts, and enhanced employee productivity,” said Mr. Stone. “This solution has allowed for us to develop a new set of Web-based applications that will further our success.”

“We congratulate Lowe’s Steve Stone for winning the prestigious Executive Technology award,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re very proud to be his business intelligence vendor of choice, and we look forward to continuing to provide Lowe’s with a scalable and flexible platform that provides valuable, strategic insight.”

Executive Technology provides top-level retail executives with the strategic information required to make the right decisions in leveraging technology solutions in all areas of the business.

About Lowe’s

With fiscal year 2002 sales of $26.5 billion, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE 100 company that serves approximately nine million customers a week at more than 875 home improvement stores in 45 states. In 2003, FORTUNE named Lowe’s America’s Most Admired Specialty Retailer. Based in Wilkesboro, N.C., the 57-year old company is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Leading Korean Retailer Lotte Mart Successfully Deploys MicroStrategy Technology Enterprise-Wide

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Lotte Mart, a leading Korean retailer, has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� across the organization. Lotte Mart, with 2.1 trillio

McLean, Va., (June 19, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Lotte Mart, a leading Korean retailer, has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) across the organization. Lotte Mart, with 2.1 trillion won in revenues in 2002, reaches an estimated 200,000 customers daily through its 31 store locations across Korea.

“With MicroStrategy’s technology, our employees are able to more effectively track sales trends at any given store location and react quickly to customer preferences,” said Mr. Sang-Jin Lee, CRM manager of Customer Service at Lotte Mart. “We are definitely impressed with the platform’s superior capabilities, ease-of-use and scalability, and look forward to deploying additional MicroStrategy-based applications in the future,” added Tae Hwan Lee, with Lotte Mart’s Information Strategy Team.

Approximately 500 Lotte Mart employees in marketing, planning, sales strategy and purchasing use MicroStrategy to perform ad hoc queries and run reports against a 3.6-terabyte Teradata® data warehouse. Instead of tapping the IT department to create reports, employees today are able to run reports with ease and make decisions that improve sales and eliminate inventory inefficiencies.

About Lotte Mart

Lotte Mart reaches an estimated 200,000 customers each day through its 31 retail locations across Korea. It recorded 2.1 trillion won in revenue in 2002. The Korean Customer Satisfaction Index ranked Lotte Mart as first, and the company also earned many prestigious awards such as “customer recommended” and “price innovator” in the discount retail category. For more information, please visit www.lotteshopping.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

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Chela Financial Enhances Education Finance Offerings With MicroStrategy Technology

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Chela Financial has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� to improve its educational financing offerings by more effectively tracking

McLean, Va., (June 12, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Chela Financial has successfully deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to improve its educational financing offerings by more effectively tracking its loan origination and acquisition volume. Chela Financial, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA, is a leading not-for-profit education financing company.

Chela Financial’s analysts and senior management use MicroStrategy software to monitor its $2.4 billion student loan portfolio. End users are able to evaluate the performance of these loans, monitor past acquisitions and originations, and provide analysis that improves the modeling of future loan acquisitions and originations.

“MicroStrategy supports our business intelligence needs, enabling us to effectively analyze financial information through a secure environment,” said Douglas Dolton, chief operating officer at Chela Financial. “Our MicroStrategy-based system is an outgrowth of our focus on superior customer service. Using MicroStrategy, we’ve been able to improve our educational financing offerings, underscoring our commitment to providing students with the best products and services.”

Chela Financial also uses MicroStrategy technology to report on the origination composition of its loans. End users, for instance, can track application volume, identify the options applicants choose at the time of loan origination, and ensure that Chela Financial is approving loans to meet underwriting criteria. End users are also able to track application volume by channel performance –determining the success rate of Web-based applications versus telephone-based applications.

Of the MicroStrategy reports fulfilled per month, 30 percent are ad hoc queries that are run against an Oracle® loan origination data warehouse and a SQL Server® servicing data warehouse.

About Chela Financial

Since 1979, Chela Financial has been committed to helping students and their families find the financial resources to unleash their potential with loans, scholarships, and information. As a leading not-for-profit education finance company, Chela Financial has helped students achieve their educational goals by financing approximately $4 billion of loans. The company is actively involved in community-based programs and has dedicated more than $2 million to scholarship and outreach programs. In addition to providing student loan secondary market services, Chela Financial originates private education loans, the AcademicEdge® Loan and the CalEdge Loan, as well as the Federal Stafford Loan, the Federal PLUS Loan, and the OnePay Consolidation Loan. For more information, please visit www.loans4students.org.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 2,000 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Best Buy, 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, and JD Edwards. 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 www.microstrategy.com.

This press release may include statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements,” including its estimates of future business prospects or financial results and statements containing the words “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “expect” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results of MicroStrategy Incorporated and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include: the Company’s ability to secure financing for its current operations and long-term plans on acceptable terms; the ability of the Company to implement and achieve widespread customer acceptance of its MicroStrategy 7i software on a timely basis; the Company’s ability to recognize deferred revenue through delivery of products or satisfactory performance of services; continued acceptance of the Company’s products in the marketplace; the timing of significant orders; delays in the Company’s ability to develop or ship new products; market acceptance of new products; competitive factors; general economic conditions; currency fluctuations; and other risks detailed in the Company’s registration statements and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release.

MicroStrategy is a registered trademark of MicroStrategy Incorporated in the United States and certain other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Marc Brailov
MicroStrategy Incorporated
(703) 770-1670
mbrailov@microstrategy.com

Source: MicroStrategy

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