Just playing MSTR A/H momo here , (does that bring back memories <G>) added $65c/70c on YHOO news just out :
good for a little pop so far :
Yahoo!(R) Signs Agreement to License MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
Platform
MCLEAN, Va., June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy(R)
Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business
intelligence software, today announced that Yahoo! Inc., a leading global
Internet company, has licensed the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
Platform(TM).
The MicroStrategy platform will enable Yahoo! to create customized data
analysis tools, vital for the ongoing evaluation of category specific
performance. The software will enhance Yahoo!'s ability to track trends for
individual retail categories, such as apparel and home and garden.
MicroStrategy will also develop a custom analysis package for Yahoo!'s Data
Solutions group.
"We are proud to be working with Yahoo!, the world's most recognized
Internet brand, to better understand and enhance its online interactions,"
said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated.
"MicroStrategy gives businesses and organizations the capabilities to analyze,
report and deliver critical insight with ease to end-users across the
enterprise, and we are pleased to add Yahoo! as one of these valued clients."
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 1,500 enterprise-class customers, including Lowe's
Home Improvement Warehouse, AT&T Wireless Group, Wachovia and GlaxoSmithKline.
MicroStrategy also has relationships with over 400 systems integrators and
application development and platform partners, including IBM, PeopleSoft,
Compaq, and JD Edwards.
MicroStrategy is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol MSTR. For more
information on the company, or to purchase or demo MicroStrategy's software,
please visit MicroStrategy's Web site at microstrategy.com .
MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, MicroStrategy
7 and 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.
Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
their respective owners.
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 possibility that the conditions to
the securities class action and shareholder derivative settlement agreements
will not be satisfied; 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.
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SOURCE MicroStrategy Incorporated
-0- 06/27/2002
/CONTACT: Marc Brailov of MicroStrategy Incorporated, +1-703-770-1670, or
mbrailov@microstrategy.com/
/Web site: microstrategy.com
(MSTR)
CO: MicroStrategy Incorporated; Yahoo!, Inc.
ST: Virginia
IN: CPR MLM STW
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