J.D. Edwards Delivers On C-Commerce Vision With New Extended Process Integration Technologies

Industry-Leading Technologies from Active Software and Netfish Technologies to be Embedded in J.D. Edwards’ OneWorld for Inter- and Intra- Enterprise Collaboration

DENVER, June 20, 2000 — J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC), a leading provider of agile, collaborative solutions for the Internet economy, today announced new components of its interoperability strategy that will give customers the power to collaborate between applications and among enterprises.

J.D. Edwards today announced its intentions to shape to the next wave of digital technology beyond e-business — collaborative commerce (C-commerce). (See related announcement, June 20, 2000).

Successful C-commerce requires open, collaborative technologies that allow communication among vendors, suppliers and customers across the supply chain, thereby creating demonstrable value and sustainable competitive advantage for today’s businesses. To deliver C-commerce to its customers worldwide, J.D. Edwards today introduced the technology core of its C-commerce strategy — OneWorldÒ XPI.

The interoperability technology behind the company’s new strategy is "Extended Process Integration," or XPI. OneWorld XPI will allow disparate technologies within an organization to effectively work together using functionality acquired through the Company’s new agreement with leading eBusiness infrastructure software provider, Active Software, Inc. It also allows multi-enterprise collaboration among vendors, partners and suppliers using functionality acquired from Netfish Technologies, Inc., a leader in XML-based business-to-business eCommerce solutions. Under these agreements, J.D. Edwards will license both Active Software and Netfish technologies to be resold with OneWorld and embedded in future releases of its OneWorld Xe software.

"We are pleased to see J.D. Edwards moving forward with an open, interoperable strategy. It’s a sound business move for J.D. Edwards and a definite win for the Company’s customers," said David Connelly, president and CEO, Open Applications Group. "Our customers look to companies such as J.D. Edwards for the application backbone that runs the enterprise. With the Company’s new XPI technology, J.D. Edwards’ will become a leader in the open, collaborative technologies that these customers need to succeed."

"To build a sustainable competitive advantage, companies must be able to integrate disparate business applications and processes, both within the core enterprise and among external enterprises," said Ed McVaney, president, CEO and chairman of J.D. Edwards. "We believe that the companies that will succeed in C-commerce are those that can team with the best customers and suppliers and can add the next great application quickly and easily, whenever their competitive landscape demands it."

J.D. Edwards will also deliver new business software applications including best practice knowledge derived from its 23 years of customer implementations, providing a comprehensive, pre-packaged integration of automated business processes that will be available to its customers worldwide.

Active Software
Active Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASWX), a leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure software will provide its ActiveWorks™ Integration System to enable applications within an enterprise to seamlessly share information. Under the long-term development, licensing and OEM agreement, the two companies will partner to embed the ActiveWorks open platform into the OneWorld Xe architecture. While the new solution is under development, J.D. Edwards will resell the ActiveWorks product, enabling customers to take advantage of the new agreement immediately. (See related release, June 20).

Netfish
J.D. Edwards and Netfish Technologies, Inc., a leader in XML-based business-to-business eCommerce solutions, have signed an agreement to embed Netfish XDI™ B2B process integration technology into OneWorld. The comprehensive source code licensing, reseller and OEM agreement unites the strength of Netfish’s XML-based B2B integration and workflow automation capabilities with J.D. Edwards’ integrated enterprise applications to enable collaboration among enterprises across the Internet. (See related release, June 20).

Supported Standards
J.D. Edwards’ new interoperability strategy supports major standards bodies such as the Open Applications Group’s (OAGI) horizontal work, RosettaNet for the electronics industry and UCCnet for the consumer industry. These organizations are devoted to the development and deployment of standard electronic business interfaces that enable a common language for business processes between supply chain partners worldwide.

About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards is a leading provider of agile, collaborative solutions for the Internet economy. The Company’s integrated ActivEra™ Solutions deliver supply chain collaboration and fulfillment, and enable business-to-business trading communities in the consumer products, industrial and services industries. The Company’s solutions are web-enabled and operate in multiple computing environments.

Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1999 revenues of $944.2 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com or at 1-800-727-5333.

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