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Sprint Selects MicroStrategy As Its Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence Standard

Over 16,000 Employees Use MicroStrategy for 27 Critical Applications

McLean, Va., (April 13, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that telecommunications giant Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS) has significantly expanded its deployment of MicroStrategy’s platform, adopting MicroStrategy Report Services(TM), and making MicroStrategy its enterprise-wide business intelligence standard.

Sprint’s deployment of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) is extensive, encompassing multiple critical projects, anchoring 27 applications, and supporting more than 16,000 employees. Sprint is harnessing MicroStrategy for such areas as call-traffic analysis, marketing analysis, financial performance assessments, and Web-traffic analysis.

Sprint, with approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. Sprint’s Target State Architecture is a key initiative within the Information Technology Services (ITS) organization to perform more efficiently, and reduce costs by consolidating operations into a centrally managed environment.

“We’re pleased that MicroStrategy’s unique infrastructure and exceptional capabilities have scaled to our ever-growing requirements, satisfying the business requirements of our widespread end user community,” said Sprint’s Manager of Systems Development John Bentley. “MicroStrategy will offer exceptional uptime and reliability, while offering flexibility and responsiveness as Sprint solidifies its standing as a world-leading customer-centric company.”

For more than eight years, Sprint has been using the MicroStrategy platform to provide employees with large-scale availability of information, enabling them to recognize new revenue streams, streamline operations and deliver value-added customer experiences. MicroStrategy Report Services simplifies the deployment of business intelligence applications throughout a large organization – to all its employees, customers, and suppliers – and delivers a range of enterprise report types that companies need.

“We’re very proud that Sprint is now making MicroStrategy its business intelligence standard. This will allow Sprint to deliver high-value business intelligence to its employees across its global enterprise,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Sprint will benefit still further from MicroStrategy Report Services, as that combines the best in business analytics and reporting to bring customers an integrated technology that can fulfill their analytical data and reporting requirements enterprise-wide.”

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 70,000 employees worldwide and nearly $27 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States’ first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local voice and data services in 18 states and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit www.sprint.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 2,500 enterprise-class customers, including General Motors, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse, Yahoo!, Visa International, Wells Fargo, Telecom Italia, AT&T Wireless Group and Aventis. MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 500 systems integrators and application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft, Sun, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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 Unveils MicroStrategy Office

Brings Advanced Business Intelligence to Microsoft Office Users

McLEAN, Va., (April 05, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR) today unveiled a new product, MicroStrategy Office(TM), that brings high-value business intelligence technology to users of Microsoft® Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint®, Excel, and Outlook. MicroStrategy Office can significantly expand the ranks of an enterprise’s knowledge workers who can access enterprise data and enhance their work in all facets of business operations.

“By combining Microsoft Office productivity applications with MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence platform, companies can now deploy a new spectrum of business intelligence applications,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “For the first time, average business users will be empowered to serve themselves business information as needed, simply by using the Microsoft Office productivity tools with which they are already so familiar.”

“MicroStrategy Office’s potential user base is substantial. It enables new kinds of business intelligence applications by opening a wide new window for non-IT workers to enterprise information through the vehicle of the popular Microsoft Office applications,” said IDC’s Research Manager Dan Vesset. “MicroStrategy Office is likely to provide a significant contribution to the way business people use business intelligence, empowering any Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word user to natively access enterprise-wide data with the necessary consistency, security and scalability.”

“MicroStrategy Office represents a leap forward in making secure, enterprise data available to users in the context of how they really work. MicroStrategy is ahead of most of the competition here,” said Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI).

MicroStrategy Office’s Benefits for Enterprises:

1. Simple, Transparent Window for All Enterprise Data

Business users require an easy and scalable way to incorporate business information in the day-to-day work embodied in their office productivity applications. An average business user, who spends much of his or her day using such office productivity applications as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, generally does not include enterprise data in his or her documents and work. In the rare instances where IT departments or financial reporting departments link Excel to backend databases, a very high programming and maintenance burden is required to make applications work and keep them working.

MicroStrategy Office significantly changes this equation by providing a simple, transparent window into enterprise data.

2. Easy Empowerment for Business Users – No Technical Training Needed

Even the most casual, non-IT users will be able to access the full depth of enterprise data through their familiar office productivity applications — as they need just apply the Microsoft Office skills they already possess.

* Transparent access to the full depth and breadth of enterprise data — fully secure data just one click away and without arcane technical terminology.
* Easy ad hoc query — simple query wizard provides users with ad hoc data.
* Simple offline analysis for mobile personnel — users can take data-rich Microsoft Office documents anywhere and refresh the data whenever connected.
* Personal scorecards and dashboards — users can create their own scorecards and dashboards using familiar Microsoft Office formatting skills.
* Microsoft Office style of collaboration — users can send data-rich “live documents” to colleagues and can refresh with the latest data pertinent to them.

3. Engendering a New Range of Business Intelligence Applications

By merging MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence capabilities with Microsoft Office workflows, companies will be able to deploy a new range of business intelligence applications.

* Report design by novice users and extranet users — with MicroStrategy Office, organizations can empower extranet users to design their own reports without learning business intelligence skills.
* Performance reporting and scorecards — enable users to refresh business performance report books and scorecards at any time.
* Data-rich what-if models in Excel — easily vary the data that feeds Excel what-if models.
* Data-rich PowerPoint presentations — create PowerPoint presentations that automatically change their content based on the intended audience.
* Data-rich Word memos and documents — create Microsoft Word documents, full of data and all the annotation surrounding the data.

4. Leveraging MicroStrategy’s Industrial-Strength Business Intelligence Platform

MicroStrategy Office fully leverages MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength business intelligence platform and adheres to Microsoft Office’s latest Smart Client architecture — offering scale, manageability, security, enterprise-wide consistency for any database. MicroStrategy Office is a standard Microsoft Office add-in, unobtrusive to users and consistent with the Microsoft Office look and feel.

MicroStrategy Office is also a series of .net Web Services completely consistent with Microsoft’s services-based architecture standards.

“MicroStrategy Office takes another big step forward in bringing advanced business intelligence technology to the masses,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “By continuing to set high standards for our technology, MicroStrategy again aims to establish a new marketplace standard for leading-edge business intelligence.”

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com?CID=2142pr.

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, MicroStrategy Report Services and MicroStrategy Office 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, MicroStrategy Office 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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H-E-B Food/Drugs Expanding MicroStrategy Deployment Enterprise-Wide for Reporting & Analysis

Sales & Market Basket Analysis & Assessing Ad Effectiveness

McLEAN, Va., (March 29, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that existing customer H-E-B is expanding its deployment of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) enterprise-wide, for reporting and analysis of sales, market baskets, advertising effectiveness and cross-merchandising opportunities.

Founded in Kerrville, Texas in 1905, H-E-B employs more than 56,000 employees and operates more than 300 stores throughout Texas and internationally in Mexico. It has grown to be one of the largest independently owned food-retailing companies in the U.S.

H-E-B will utilize MicroStrategy to distribute analyses and reports to merchandisers and store operations management at its 300 stores, regional offices and corporate headquarters location. For its MicroStrategy applications, H-E-B will employ a 2.5-terabyte Teradata database. Up to 800 employees will eventually become users of these applications.

“H-E-B now uses MicroStrategy for a wide variety of business intelligence reporting. This new expansion of MicroStrategy will allow us to efficiently expand the benefits of our data warehouse to the leadership of our retail stores,” said Alan Markert, H-E-B Vice President and Program Owner for Business Intelligence and B2B.

“Our customer footprint in leading-edge retail business intelligence continues to grow,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Seven of the top 10 global retailers have standardized on MicroStrategy for business intelligence, harnessing MicroStrategy for such key areas as store operations, merchandise management, loss prevention, marketing analysis, market-basket analysis and category management.”

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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World’s Largest Casual Dining Company Darden Restaurants Expands Deployment of MicroStrategy

Assessing Sales, Finance, Human Resources & Competitiveness

McLean, VA (March 22, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Darden Restaurants, Inc., has expanded its deployment of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM). MicroStrategy’s platform currently anchors 12 business intelligence applications across 17 business areas – assessing sales, finance, human resources and competitiveness.

A MicroStrategy customer since 1997, Darden Restaurants, Inc. is the largest casual dining restaurant company in the world, operating more than 1,300 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, Smokey Bones BBQ, and Seasons 52 restaurants in North America.

Over 250 of Darden Restaurant’s financial and marketing analysts, operations and human resource personnel and executive management use MicroStrategy to track, analyze and report on profitability and marketing promotions, guest satisfaction scores, employee retention, as well as perform market basket analyses, inventory and scenario planning. Employees are able to determine, for example, the impact on a restaurant’s profitability if 50 percent of its patrons purchased an additional appetizer. Darden’s most recent expansion of MicroStrategy for its human resources department involves use of MicroStrategy to analyze and report on diversity data. In the future, additional human resources data from PeopleSoft will be fed to MicroStrategy applications to provide analysis of employee turnover and to allow users to combine HR data with financial and other existing data to look for patterns and opportunities.

“Being able to make these kinds of informed business decisions helps us add to our bottom line,” said Heidi Metcalf, Senior Project Leader for Business Intelligence Systems, Darden Restaurants, Inc. “We decided to expand our MicroStrategy deployment to include human resources because we wanted a single source of corporate data and reporting.”

“We’re very proud that Darden Restaurants continues to achieve success with our platform,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Many leading retailers like Darden Restaurants use MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform to glean valuable insight into their operations and make proactive business decisions.”

About Darden Restaurants, Inc.

Darden Restaurants, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, FL, owns and operates over 1,300 Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, Smokey Bones and Seasons 52 restaurants with annual sales of over $4.7 billion.

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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Meijer Stores Expands Deployment with MicroStrategy Report Services

Over 1,000 Users for Reporting & Analysis of Sales & Merchandising

McLEAN, VA, (March 15, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Meijer Stores has expanded its MicroStrategy deployment with MicroStrategy Report Services(TM) for enterprise-wide reporting and analysis. Meijer is a family-owned and operated grocery and general merchandise retailer operating 158 stores throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio.

As a customer since 2000, Meijer is using the MicroStrategy platform for reporting and analysis on sales, merchandising and market basket applications. Over 1,000 users, including buyers, planning managers and pricing managers, already use MicroStrategy to analyze over a terabyte of critical data to identify areas of business improvement, streamline operations, and recognize cross- and up-sell opportunities.

“We’re adopting MicroStrategy Report Services because it provides an integrated reporting and analysis solution with content-rich, user-friendly reports that empower our employees to make more strategic and proactive decisions,” said one Meijer Business Executive.

“Combining the best in business analytics and reporting, MicroStrategy Report Services is increasingly being adopted as a complete enterprise analytical and reporting solution,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “Our retail customers continue to enjoy success with MicroStrategy-based applications; in fact, seven of the top ten global retailers use MicroStrategy.”

About Meijer Stores

Meijer is a family-owned and operated grocery and general merchandise retailer operating 158 stores throughout Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio. Meijer can also be found on the INTERNET at meijer.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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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U.S. Borax Adopts MicroStrategy as Enterprise-Wide Business Intelligence Standard

For Worldwide Marketing & Sales Applications

McLean, VA, (March 08, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that its existing customer U.S. Borax, Inc. has adopted the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its enterprise-wide business intelligence standard. U.S. Borax will harness MicroStrategy for analysis of and reporting on its marketing and sales trends worldwide.

U.S. Borax, Inc. supplies nearly half the global demand for borates – essential nutrients for plants, part of a healthy human diet, and key ingredients in fiberglass, ceramics, detergents, fertilizers and wood preservatives. The company employs nearly 1,500 people worldwide and ships its products to customers in nearly 100 countries.

U.S. Borax will primarily utilize MicroStrategy for its extensive “Marketing and Reporting System” (MARS). This system is used to report on sales figures, forecast projections, estimate competitive sales and gauge the state of the business. MicroStrategy users will include U.S. Borax executives, marketing analysts, sales representatives, financial analysts, distribution analysts and production supervisors.

“MicroStrategy has proved to be an excellent choice for Borax since we started using it in 1997,” said U.S. Borax’s Manager of Marketing Information Systems Jon Ashton. “We first chose MicroStrategy because of its flexible reporting capabilities, superior analytics, ease-of-use and ease-of-administration. These reasons have not changed. In fact, many of the products we first compared it against are no longer around. MicroStrategy is truly a quality product.”

“Industry leaders like U.S. Borax demand only high standards for business intelligence reporting and analysis,” said MicroStrategy COO Sanju Bansal. “The fact that U.S. Borax has been a customer of MicroStrategy since 1997, and is still expanding its applications of our platform, is testament to our technology’s outstanding capabilities and the bottom-line benefits it can engender.”

About U.S. Borax

U.S. Borax operates California’s largest open pit mine in Boron, California – one of the richest borate deposits on the planet. The company supplies nearly half the world’s demand for refined borates, minerals essential to life and modern living.

Borax traces its roots to California’s Death Valley, where borate deposits were discovered in 1872. The twenty mule teams which the company used to haul ore out of the remote desert live on as a symbol of the company’s commitment to innovation. In 2002, U.S. Borax celebrated 130 years of continuous business in California.

Today, U.S. Borax is acknowledged as the world leader in borate technology, research and development. U.S. Borax is a member of the Rio Tinto Group (NYSE: RTP).

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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

Source: MicroStrategy

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Leading European Retailer Fnac Adopts MicroStrategy as Business Intelligence Standard for Enterprise Reporting

To Assess Sales for All Fnac Departments

McLEAN, VA (March 01, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Fnac has adopted the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as the enterprise standard for its new reporting applications. Based in France, Fnac is the leading retailer of books, music, consumer electronics and entertainment in France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Fnac has more than 15 million customers with 2002 revenue of $3.5 billion euros.

Currently, 200 Fnac employees, including store managers, headquarters personnel, and financial, sales and marketing analysts, utilize MicroStrategy technology to access an Oracle data warehouse. Approximately 15 MicroStrategy-based applications, including an extranet, will enable key employees to track sales performance and monitor margins online for all of Fnac’s departments.

“We selected the MicroStrategy platform because of its sophisticated yet easy-to-use reporting capabilities, its powerful analytics, and its ability for rapid deployment of BI applications,” said François Pereira, CTO, Fnac. “In addition, we were looking for a scalable, integrated platform that would grow with us as our needs changed. MicroStrategy’s platform offers exceptional scalability for building numerous applications and accommodating very large databases and user populations. This will provide us with valuable insight to enhance our sales operations across our large enterprise.”

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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Value City Department Stores, DSW and Filene’s Basement Select MicroStrategy as Their Enterprise Reporting Standard

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Retail Ventures Services, Inc. (a subsidiary of Retail Ventures, Inc., NYSE: RVI), has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform� as its enterprise report

McLean, Va., (February 23, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Retail Ventures Services, Inc. (a subsidiary of Retail Ventures, Inc., NYSE: RVI), has chosen the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM) as its enterprise reporting standard.

RVI operates a strong portfolio of off-price retailing brands with three very distinct retail concepts: Value City Department Stores, DSW and Filene’s Basement. These brands encompass the off-price retail segment, both in terms of price point and merchandising, as well as geography. Value City Department Stores, DSW and Filene’s Basement employees, merchandising analysts, and senior management, will use MicroStrategy software to analyze customer data and product inventories. Ken DeWitt, RVI Sr. Vice President and CIO, stated that, “end users will be able to perform sales, category and inventory management analyses in order to more effectively track promotions, product mix and inventory levels.”

“Retail Ventures’ 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 Value City Department Stores, DSW and Filene’s Basement 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 Retail Ventures, Inc.

Retail Ventures, Inc., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is a leading off- price retailer with stores in the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast. It currently operates 116 Value City Department Stores, 142 DSW stores and 21 Filene’s Basement stores.

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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Grange Insurance Expands Deployment with MicroStrategy Report Services

Enterprise Reporting & Analysis of Sales and Loss Ratio Applications

McLEAN, Va. (February 17, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Grange Insurance has expanded its deployment of MicroStrategy with MicroStrategy Report Services(TM) to provide enterprise reporting and analysis of sales and loss ratios. With over a billion dollars in written premiums, 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.

More than 300 Grange Insurance associates including territory managers, portfolio managers, and customer management personnel, already use MicroStrategy to analyze four terabytes 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 use this insight to assist them in seeking to increase the profitability of each product, region or agent.

“Building on our existing platform, we selected MicroStrategy Report Services because we needed an integrated reporting and analysis solution that would provide a single dashboard for each individual agent with advanced reporting capabilities,” said Tony Simpkins, Project Lead at Grange Insurance. “MicroStrategy Report Services creates content-rich, user-friendly reports that empower our associates to make more strategic and proactive decisions allowing us to better assess performance and enhance operational efficiencies.”

“MicroStrategy Report Services combines the best in business analytics and reporting to bring customers an integrated technology that is designed to fulfill their analytical data and reporting requirements enterprise-wide,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju Bansal. “We’re proud to continue our relationship with Grange Insurance. We have found companies are increasingly recognizing that MicroStrategy’s industrial-strength platform provides outstanding enterprise-class reporting and business-intelligence applications.”

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

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at 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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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FleetBoston Financial Executive Wins MicroStrategy’s Individual Excellence Award

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected Michael Caron, a Director in Business Development and Strategy at FleetBoston Financial (NYSE & BSE: FBF), as winner of MicroStrategyâ??s Individual Excel

McLean, Va., (February 11, 2004) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has selected Michael Caron, a Director in Business Development and Strategy at FleetBoston Financial (NYSE & BSE: FBF), as winner of MicroStrategy’s Individual Excellence in Business Intelligence award. Michael Caron was recognized today at MicroStrategy World 2004 in Miami, Florida.

FleetBoston Financial, a diversified financial services company with assets of $197 billion, offers a comprehensive array of financial solutions to over 18 million individual, corporate, and institutional customers. A MicroStrategy customer since 1998, FleetBoston Financial has deployed MicroStrategy enterprise-wide to anchor multiple, high-value business intelligence applications.

With Mr. Caron’s guidance and leadership, these applications have had significant bottom-line benefits for Fleet. One of these applications, BI 2.0, provides a comprehensive view of Fleet’s commercial customers and represents the backbone of the bank’s analytical CRM strategy. Deployed through a portal environment, MicroStrategy provides Fleet’s 2,000 relationship managers, portfolio managers and business analysts with detailed revenue, expense, and profitability information. This business intelligence portal is integrated into the workflow of Fleet’s Seibel sales force automation solution. This consolidated customer view has helped drive a 21 percent increase in sales productivity.

Further, Fleet’s use of business intelligence to improve campaign design and direct marketing has increased cross-sell revenues and products used per customer 14 and 16 percent, respectively.

The benefits of using MicroStrategy to access, analyze, and share information in Fleet’s enterprise data warehouse are recognized throughout the company. Fleet has seen positive change and product gains in its sales management process, as well as improvements in product cross-sell, especially across different lines of business as the velocity of referrals increases. Mr. Caron has also worked across divisions at Fleet to improve the use of business intelligence in the transaction approval and pricing processes, making available customer information in a way that reduces handling time and makes managers more efficient.

“I’m very honored to receive MicroStrategy’s Best Practices In Business Intelligence Individual Excellence award,” said Michael Caron. “MicroStrategy’s capabilities have enabled us to achieve real cost-savings and revenue growth. This award is a reflection of the hard-working and talented group of professionals that work with me everyday to maximize the benefits of the MicroStrategy platform. I accept this individual excellence award on behalf of my great team, and thank MicroStrategy for this honor.”

“Our customers can achieve significant improvement in their businesses with MicroStrategy’s technology; however, Michael Caron has exhibited exceptional distinction, defined leadership and innovation in business intelligence software deployment,” said MicroStrategy’s COO Sanju K. Bansal. “With over 20 years of experience in information technology, Michael Caron has played a critical role in deploying MicroStrategy’s business intelligence platform at Fleet and is helping make it a smarter, more proactive company.”

About FleetBoston Financial

FleetBoston Financial (NYSE & BSE: FBF), a diversified financial services company with assets of $197 billion, offers a comprehensive array of financial solutions to over 18 million individual, corporate, and institutional customers. Products and services are available through a variety of channels including 1,460 stores and more than 3,400 ATMs from Maine to Pennsylvania, HomeLinkSM online banking, and telephone banking. Fleet is the leading small business and commercial banking provider in the Northeast and a premier provider of financial services to selected industries nationwide.

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 2,500 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, HP, and Teradata, a division of NCR. MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more information or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy’s software, visit MicroStrategy’s Web site at http://www.microstrategy.com.

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 and MicroStrategy Report Services 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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