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Amway Corp. Enhances Customer Relationships & Productivity with MicroStrategy Software

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Amway Corp., a subsidiary of Alticor Inc., is using MicroStrategyâ??s Business Intelligence Platformâ?¢ software to improve the productivity and retention of Amwayâ??s mi

McLEAN, Va., (January 27, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Amway Corp., a subsidiary of Alticor Inc., is using MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence Platform(TM) software to improve the productivity and retention of Amway’s millions of worldwide independent business owners (IBOs).

Alticor is the parent company of Amway, a global leader in direct selling, and Quixtar Inc., a Web-based business opportunity in North America. Both Amway and Quixtar rely on the MicroStrategy platform to capture a full view of sales activity in multiple affiliates around the world. Alticor and its subsidiaries generate annual sales of more than $4 billion.

“The end users within the Amway affiliates who use the MicroStrategy platform are very happy with the software,” said Tom Kasprzak, Amway supervisor of data support services, Core Central IT. “MicroStrategy’s global presence, its scalable platform and superior architecture were the main reasons we chose the company’s software back in 1997. MicroStrategy continues to be a leading force in the business intelligence industry.”

The software enables end users to offer incentives or information to IBOs that may increase affiliate sales and strengthen the affiliate-IBO relationship. Sales and marketing analysts, for instance, are able to pull up canned reports and perform ad hoc analyses on demographic, sales or activation data. End users can then identify opportunities to promote and cross sell products that IBOs can utilize to help them enhance productivity and ensure success in their business opportunities.

Four of Amway’s affiliates – Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, along with Quixtar in North America – use MicroStrategy’s technology to analyze sales and marketing data generated by approximately 3 to 4 million IBOs working in these countries. According to Kasprzak, Amway is exploring the use of the MicroStrategy platform at other affiliates, including Malaysia, Thailand and other markets in Europe.

About Alticor

Alticor (www.alticor.com) is the parent company of Amway Corp., Quixtar Inc. and Access Business Group LLC. Headquartered in Ada, Michigan, USA, Alticor and its affiliates offer products, business opportunities, and manufacturing and logistics services in more than 80 countries and territories worldwide. In its most recent fiscal year, the company reported worldwide sales of $4.5 billion. For further information, please contact Alticor’s media information line at 616.787.7565 or e-mail Alticor’s media relations staff at mediainfo@alticor.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,800 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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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Grange Insurance Deploys MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform Enterprise-Wide

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Grange Insurance is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� as its enterprise-wide standard to provide more than 300 associates Web access to product sa

McLEAN, Va., (January 23, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Grange Insurance is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its enterprise-wide standard to provide more than 300 associates Web access to product sales, transaction and customer interaction data. With nearly a billion dollars in written premiums, Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance is a property and casualty insurer that offers home, auto and business insurance and a full line of life insurance and financial products through wholly owned subsidiaries Grange Life and The Grange Bank.

“After reviewing many business intelligence tools, we selected MicroStrategy. We felt it was best equipped to handle the complex analysis of 10 years worth of information from all of our casualty, life and bank businesses needed by our organization,” said Tony Simpkins, Project Lead at Grange Insurance.

“Previously, there was no easy way to connect our disparate sources. In some cases, we relied on a manual process to combine and evaluate our diverse product lines,” added Michael Fergang, Assistant Vice President. “MicroStrategy allowed us to build a more conformed application that enables us to analyze individual business items in the context of all other business elements, including geography, profitability and workload. Now that we have a more complete picture of our business, we are able to make more effective decisions that positively affect our bottom line.”

Approximately 300 Grange Insurance associates, including internal marketing, pricing and customer management personnel, use MicroStrategy to analyze over a half terabyte of data to identify areas of improvement in product design, customer management, and to recognize cross- and up-sell opportunities. These users are able to increase the profitability of each product, region or agent. Grange selected MicroStrategy for the platform’s reporting flexibility, its ability to scale to large amounts of data and its ability to deploy applications via the Web.

About Grange Insurance

Grange Insurance, based in Columbus, Ohio, has been “your partner in protection” since 1935. Grange offers auto, home, life, business and farm insurance protection, plus financial services through The Grange Bank, in Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee. Grange Insurance is also affiliated with Integrity Mutual Insurance Company of Appleton, WI, which offers its own insurance products and access to The Grange Bank through independent agents in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,800 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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.

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

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Independent Survey Validates MicroStrategy Software’s Superiority in Web Deployment & Scalability

MicroStrategy Beats Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion & Brio

McLEAN, Va., (January 15, 2003) –

A leading independent survey of the online analytic market, The OLAP Survey 2, has validated the market-leading capabilities of the business intelligence software platform of MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), finding MicroStrategy’s software superior to that of Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion and Brio in Web deployment and data scalability. MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software platform was found to be far ahead in its capacity to be deployed easily via the Web and in its ability to serve users enterprise-wide by harnessing very large databases.

This second edition of The OLAP Survey also determined that MicroStrategy customers are more loyal than those of Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Brio, Crystal Decisions and Computer Associates. The OLAP Survey 2 — a comprehensive 226-page analysis — examined key product acquisition, implementation and deployment metrics based on a survey of 2,236 people from organizations based in 49 countries.

Among The OLAP Survey 2’s specific findings:

* MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform had the highest median Web-deployment rate, at 80 percent, exceeding that of the next ranked vendors, Brio and Cognos Power Play, which had median Web-deployment rates of 58 percent and 45 percent, respectively. Hyperion (Essbase) and Business Objects products had the lowest median Web-deployment rates, with rates of only 6 percent and 13 percent, respectively. Most of the products surveyed were close to average, with a median of just over 20 percent Web-deployment. MicroStrategy also had the highest Web deployment rate — a median rate of 80 percent – in last year’s OLAP Survey.
* MicroStrategy customers analyze by far the largest amounts of data — with a median database size of almost 300 gigabytes. This is substantially greater than the next highest, 20 gigabytes for Brio customers. Business Objects and Cognos lagged far behind, with median customer databases of just 8 gigabytes and 1 gigabyte, respectively.

“MicroStrategy’s ability to provide full analytical access to the entire range of data and support very broad Web deployments is critical to maximizing business insight and making business intelligence mainstream to a wide range of users,” said Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Survey (http://www.survey.com). He added: “The fact that MicroStrategy customers analyze the largest amounts of data is no surprise given its highly scalable architecture. And the fact that MicroStrategy customers reported the highest Web deployment rates among all BI vendors in both editions of The OLAP Survey is testament to its Web architecture’s attractiveness. This may help explain why MicroStrategy has had the highest loyalty rating among the BI specialists in both editions of The OLAP Survey.”

“Market’s Only Industrial Strength Platform”

“The OLAP Survey 2 provides important, independent confirmation that MicroStrategy’s business intelligence software is an industrial-strength platform, offering mission-critical capabilities,” said MicroStrategy’s Vice Chairman and COO Sanju Bansal. “Dynamic companies are standardizing on the MicroStrategy platform to refine vast amounts of data into valuable insight and extend it to thousands of their employees, customers and partners.”

According to the 2002 Fortune listing of top U.S. domestic companies, MicroStrategy customers include four of the top five diversified financial companies, four of the top five commercial banks, and seven of the top ten pharmaceutical companies. Additionally, MicroStrategy boasts as customers eight of the top ten telecommunications companies and six of the top ten automotive companies in the Fortune 2002 Global 500 list.

For more information about The OLAP Survey 2, please see: http://www.microstrategy.com/Company/Analysts_OLAP_Survey.asp.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,800 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7i, Scalable Business Intelligence Platform Built for the Internet are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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 Certifies on Teradata Warehouse 7.0

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, and Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, today announced that MicroStrategy has certified on Teradata Warehouse 7.0, the latest release of data warehousing suite.

McLEAN, Va., (January 07, 2003) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, and Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, today announced that MicroStrategy has certified on Teradata Warehouse 7.0, the latest release of data warehousing suite.

In recent testing performed on Teradata Warehouse 7.0, the MicroStrategy 7i(TM) business intelligence platform worked out-of-the-box, ensuring that customers can run MicroStrategy on Teradata Warehouse 7.0 without making any changes to their analytic applications.

“As we continually improve our database products to ensure fast performance against large data volumes, it is critical that an industry leader like MicroStrategy support our latest releases,” said Vickie Farrell, vice president of Teradata Warehouse marketing. “MicroStrategy’s proven analytical capabilities, scalability and performance enhancing techniques make its platform ideal for organizations running their business-critical applications on Teradata Warehouse 7.0.”

“MicroStrategy is pleased to support Teradata’s latest release and will support any MicroStrategy 7i business intelligence customers migrating to Teradata Warehouse 7.0,” said Mark LaRow, vice president of products at MicroStrategy Incorporated. “As with previous versions of Teradata database, MicroStrategy generates highly optimized SQL for Teradata Warehouse 7.0, ensuring that customers can run their business intelligence applications efficiently.”

As an active Teradata supporter, MicroStrategy has been a participant in Teradata’s beta tests for several years and has added SQL generation optimizations with each Teradata release. MicroStrategy also expects to utilize the new functionality introduced in Teradata Warehouse 7.0 in up-coming MicroStrategy 7i releases early in 2003.

About Teradata Division

Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise analytic technologies and services. For more information, visit www.teradata.com.

About NCR Corporation

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR’s ATMs, retail systems, Teradata® data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship Technology(TM) solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 30,500 people worldwide.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,800 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, including incorporating Teradata Warehouse 7.0 functionality in future MicroStrategy 7i releases; 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.

NCR and Teradata are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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.

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

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MicroStrategy to Announce Fourth Quarter 2002 Financial Results

MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, will announce financial results for the fourth quarter of 2002 and hold a conference call, which will include managementâ??s comments followed by a question-and-answer period.

USA (January 06, 2003) –

WHAT: MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, will announce financial results for the fourth quarter of 2002 and hold a conference call, which will include management’s comments followed by a question-and-answer period.

WHEN: Thursday, January 30, 2003 Results will be announced at approximately 4:30 PM EDT; a conference call will follow at 5:30 PM EDT.

WHO: Scheduled MicroStrategy speakers on the conference call: Michael Saylor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Sanju Bansal, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
Eric Brown, President and Chief Financial Officer

HOW: Domestically, dial 877-597-9704 and mention Michael Saylor as the chairperson prior to 5:30 p.m. EDT, or for 48-hour playback access, dial 800-642-1687 and enter the conference ID 7410418. Internationally, dial 706-634-6550 and mention Michael Saylor as the chairperson prior to 5:30 p.m. EDT, or for 48-hour playback, dial 706-645-9291 and enter the conference ID 7410418. For a live Webcast or replay of the call, visit — http://www.microstrategy.com/investor or http://www.streetevents.com for StreetEvents subscribers.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,800 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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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Tags: MicroStrategy

World’s Third-largest Travel Group, Thomas Cook AG, Using MicroStrategy Technology

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that German-based Thomas Cook AG, the second-largest travel group in Europe and the third-largest in the world, is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� as

McLEAN, Va., (December 30, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that German-based Thomas Cook AG, the second-largest travel group in Europe and the third-largest in the world, is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its enterprise business intelligence standard. With MicroStrategy technology, hundreds of employees at Thomas Cook AG can better understand hotel capacities and contractual terms, optimize travel routes and track the types of the rooms that are booked.

“The MicroStrategy platform has been well received by our end user community,” said Hans Dresler, data warehouse manager at Thomas Cook AG. “During a critical phase of corporate restructuring and growth, Thomas Cook relied on the MicroStrategy platform 24/7 for uninterrupted business intelligence analyses. With the technology, decision-makers from management all the way to our executive board can analyze in real time critical success factors necessary to make better business decisions.”

The MicroStrategy platform anchors a number of business intelligence applications, including the management information reporting system, revenue management analysis, sales analysis, and customer call center applications. Approximately 200 employees at Thomas Cook are able to analyze 500 gigabytes of sales information contained in an IBM DB2 data warehouse, and expect to eventually link customer information to the data warehouse. In the future, decision-makers will receive corporate indices proactively in real time via a variety of methods, including email and short message service (SMS).

About Thomas Cook AG

Thomas Cook AG is one of the world’s leading travel groups. The group comprises 30 tour operator brands, around 3,600 travel agencies, 73,000 company-managed beds and a fleet of 86 aircraft operated by five holiday airlines. The shareholders in Thomas Cook AG are Deutsche Lufthansa AG (50 percent) and KarstadtQuelle AG (50 percent).

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,700 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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 Adopted as Business Intelligence Standard at Trenitalia, Italy’s National Railroad

To Analyze Ticket Sales Data

McLean, Va., (December 29, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Trenitalia, a subgroup of the Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian State Railroads), has deployed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to analyze railroad ticket sales data.

Trenitalia employees are using the MicroStrategy platform to compare sales information against a variety of indices, such as kilometers travelled, routes, client categories, transportation categories, marketing campaigns, payment methods and times of purchase. They access secure, highly detailed and personalized reports to gain a deeper understanding of Trenitalia’s customer base and to monitor loyalty through the types of purchases made.

Trenitalia, with approximately 58,000 employees and more than a million passengers a day, is one of the largest railroad firms in Europe.

More than 8,000 trains are in daily circulation, with over 64,000 convoys and approximately 83 millions tons of freight every year.

“With our MicroStrategy-based system, we have an indispensable corporate dashboard to monitor and improve our sales performance,” said Claudio Zito, Manager of Systems and Technology for the Passenger Department at Trenitalia. “MicroStrategy enables our marketing department to monitor and analyze an enormous amount of data collected by ticket sales. We’re able to access user-friendly reports previously unavailable, which are easily viewed on the Web. The ability to modify search keys and to insert new sources of data enables our employees to perform sales reporting at the desired level of detail and across different dimensions of geography and time. Key employees are thus able to make critical decisions on improving passenger services and increasing profitability.”

“MicroStrategy allows organizations like Trenitalia to gain a deeper understanding of its customer base, leveraging insight from its data to seek to gain a competitive advantage,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “The Trenitalia project makes us particularly proud because Trenitalia had tested different technologies to analyze data and chose MicroStrategy because they deemed it the best business intelligence solution on the market.”

About Trenitalia

Trenitalia, with approximately 58,000 employees and more than a million passengers a day, is one of the largest railroad’s firm in Europe.

More than 8,000 trains are in daily circulation, transporting more than a million passengers and approximately 250,000 tons of freight each day.

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 2,300 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 Hewlett-Packard. 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 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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 Supports Leading Directory Servers from Sun, Microsoft & Novell

Integration with Leading Directories Leverages Investments in Security Systems

McLean, Va., (December 18, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its business intelligence platform, MicroStrategy 7i(TM), supports Microsoft® Active Directory for Windows® 2000, Sun ONE Directory Server from Sun(TM) Microsystems, Inc. and Novell® NDS eDirectory. MicroStrategy 7i integrates with these Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers to enable companies to make full use of their existing investments in user repositories and security systems. This integration also can facilitate and speed the deployment of the MicroStrategy 7i platform.

“Our support for LDAP servers enables our customers to quickly deploy MicroStrategy 7i with minimum administration requirements,” said Sanju K. Bansal, vice chairman and chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “With MicroStrategy’s out-of-the-box integration with leading LDAP servers, customers can immediately use their existing Sun, Microsoft or Novell user directories and security privileges for their business intelligence applications instead of creating new sets of users. End-users can easily log in to MicroStrategy using their existing directory server user IDs and passwords to access MicroStrategy 7i’s analysis capabilities.”

“Our customers are extremely pleased with MicroStrategy’s LDAP integration as it allows them to save on both initial investments as well as ongoing maintenance costs,” said Brook Detterman, Partner at Atlantic Intelligence. “Additionally, deployment time is significantly reduced and the end user experience is seamless because there is no need to remember additional passwords or security levels.”

MicroStrategy 7i’s integration with LDAP servers reduces administrators’ workloads and allows registered users to log in to business intelligence applications simply by using their assigned user IDs and passwords. Since MicroStrategy authenticates against the LDAP repository, users are automatically provided with appropriate data security authentication and access.

MicroStrategy 7i (version 7.2.2) supports the following versions of LDAP: Sun ONE Directory Server 5.1, Microsoft Active Directory for Windows 2000 Server SP2 and Novell® NDS eDirectory 8.6.2, 8.6.1, 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.6.1. For more information on LDAP, business intelligence administration and security, join MicroStrategy for a MicroStrategy 7i online seminar:
http://www.microstrategy.com/Events/Online_Seminars/
register.asp?TopicID=5.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,700 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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.

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

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Germany’s Krombacher Brewery Successfully Deploys Sales Analysis System Incorporating MicroStrategy Technology

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Germany-based Krombacher Brewery is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� to perform sales and marketing analyses. Krombacher has approximately 1,200

McLEAN, Va., (December 16, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Germany-based Krombacher Brewery is using the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) to perform sales and marketing analyses. Krombacher has approximately 1,200 breweries in Germany producing nearly 5,000 different beers.

“We chose MicroStrategy for its flexible, Web-based analytical platform,” said Hubert Mueller, sales manager at Krombacher Brewery Bernhard Schadeberg. “Our business requirements, especially those of our end users, were numerous and complex. Today, MicroStrategy technology enables our employees to access the data warehouse via the Web as well as receive valuable information via email and Short Message Service (SMS). Our MicroStrategy system is regarded as one of Krombacher’s most important information technology components because it ensures communication between our sales force and headquarters-based staff regardless of their location and time of day.”

Several hundred Krombacher employees, including the sales force, controlling department and management, use the MicroStrategy platform to analyze real-time sales activity against an IBM DB2 data warehouse. With a couple of mouse clicks, employees can track sales activity with ease, differentiate according to product, barrel sizes, or type of sale, and identify best buyers. Krombacher envisions expanding the reach of its business intelligence application to include personnel management and supplier assessment applications.

About Krombacher Brewery Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. KG

The Krombacher Brewery Bernhard Schadeberg GmbH & Co. KG has approximately 1,200 breweries in Germany producing nearly 5,000 different beers. For more information, please visit http://www.krombacher.com.

About MicroStrategy Incorporated

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 1,700 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, Hewlett-Packard, 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.

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; the Company’s ability to effect the sale of non-core assets on reasonable terms; 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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.

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

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Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC& MicroStrategy Forge Strategic Alliance

Cap Gemini Technologies LLC to Resell MicroStrategy Software

McLean, Va., (December 15, 2002) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC (CGE&Y), a leading provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. As a result of this agreement, CGE&Y will more than double the number of consultants trained on the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) by mid-2004. Cap Gemini Technologies LLC will also resell MicroStrategy software, allowing CGE&Y to provide a true end-to-end technology solution to clients around the MicroStrategy platform.

Through the alliance, CGE&Y will deliver MicroStrategy’s enhanced scalability to companies that seek to extend their business intelligence enterprise-wide. According to the two organizations, the experience of CGE&Y combined with the MicroStrategy platform can help organizations reduce operating costs, increase profits, and allow better managerial controls across organizations. Initially, CGE&Y and MicroStrategy will target the pharmaceutical, financial and retail sectors.

“For companies that seek to extend business intelligence enterprise-wide, MicroStrategy offers exceptional scalability for building numerous applications and accommodating very large databases and user populations. Their customers have experienced significant satisfaction with enterprise implementations in the industry,” said Brian Queenin, Vice President, Global Leader for Business Intelligence at CGE&Y. “We’re excited to introduce the benefits of MicroStrategy’s technology to our client base so that they can see the benefits that other MicroStrategy clients already realize.”

“CGE&Y works with companies interested in deploying business intelligence throughout their businesses. These companies have pockets of business intelligence success and now want to expand the scope of their business intelligence applications to enhance critical aspects of their operations,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Working with CGE&Y, we will provide the products and services to allow these companies to reap the bottom-line benefits of enterprise-wide information sharing.”

About Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is one of the world’s largest providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services. The company helps businesses implement growth strategies and leverage technology. The organization employs approximately 52,700 people worldwide and reported 2002 global revenues of more than 7,04 billion euros. More information about individual service lines, offices and research is available at http://www.cgey.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 2,300 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 Hewlett-Packard. 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 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, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy 7, MicroStrategy 7i are either trademarks or registered trademarks 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.

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

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