MicroStrategy Certifies MicroStrategy 8 with Oracle

Additional Performance Optimizations for Oracle Customers

McLean, Va., (October 09, 2007) –

MicroStrategy® Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that it has certified MicroStrategy 8 with Oracle® Database 11g. MicroStrategy’s certification of the latest Oracle Database is part of MicroStrategy’s recent software release, which became generally available in September 2007.

With its certification of Oracle Database 11g, MicroStrategy continues its long-standing commitment to provide a high performance, highly-scalable BI platform. MicroStrategy has developed several query performance optimizations for Oracle Database 11g that are incorporated into MicroStrategy’s very large database (VLDB) driver for Oracle Database 11g. With these optimizations, MicroStrategy generates SQL that leverages Oracle’s query rewrite and materialized view features, uses Oracle’s date-based functions to perform more efficient date-based calculations, and enhances the efficiency of multiple table outer joins.

MicroStrategy customers have some of the largest and most sophisticated business intelligence applications in the world, and MicroStrategy continues to expand its query performance optimizations to meet its customers’ BI requirements. In the OLAP Survey 6, an independent survey compiling the real-world BI experiences of 1,679 organizations, MicroStrategy was a top performer in query performance when compared with its peer group.

“MicroStrategy has a proven track record of providing optimizations to support our customers’ enterprise-scale business intelligence deployments,” said Sanju Bansal, COO of MicroStrategy. “We are proud that our query performance continues to receive high marks, given the vast amounts of data that our customers analyze.”

About Oracle Database 11g
Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing. With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11g is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly. Oracle Database 11g delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle’s premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today’s global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle’s position as the world’s largest enterprise software company. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.com/.

About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) is available at www.microstrategy.com.

MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform 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.

Wende Cover
MicroStrategy, Incorporated
1-703-770-1646
wcover@microstrategy.com

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