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DENVER, CO -- J.D. Edwards & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC), a leading provider of agile, collaborative solutions for the connected economy, announced the opening of its clustered solutions laboratory in Denver, Colorado. The cluster lab, powered by Compaq (NYSE: CPQ - news) ProLiant servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Clustering (MSCS) and SQL Server 2000, provides a clustered fail-over environment that enables J.D. Edwards to test, prove, and demonstrate a high availability solution offering for its supply chain, CRM and ERP software. The clustered solutions lab demonstrates that today's clustering technology offers more than just traditional solutions for high availability. Clustered solutions also provide customers with predictable scenarios for disaster recovery, planned downtime and even more efficient resource allocation. Implementing cluster technology provides customers with a high level of resilience in their mission critical applications and results in higher customer satisfaction. J.D. Edwards and Compaq utilize the clustered solutions lab to demonstrate clustering capabilities for existing or prospective OneWorld® customers. By creating and documenting proven, demonstrable solutions in a clustered lab environment, J.D. Edwards can also help customers deploy proven, high availability solutions for their business-critical OneWorld applications. ``The clustered solutions laboratory established with Compaq ProLiant servers is an important move for us, as many of our customers are becoming more aware of disaster recovery and high availability issues,'' said Mike Jackson, director of platform technologies, J.D. Edwards. ``We see the market demand for clustering continuing to grow, and J.D. Edwards is positioned to address our customers' needs. Not only have we developed the solution, but we simplify it by modeling the architecture for customers in our lab.'' ``Compaq has long led the industry in clustering and intelligent fault resilient technologies, enabling customers to quickly anticipate and address potential fault situations, greatly improving satisfaction and reducing risk,'' said Rhonda Rubinstein, acting vice president of solutions, Compaq Industry Standard Server Group. ``The combination of Compaq ProLiant servers and J.D. Edwards software delivers new levels of availability to critical supply chain, ERP and CRM applications, enabling the IT infrastructure to adapt quickly and easily to constantly changing business needs.'' Modularity and the ability to handle a fail-over with minimal interruption of service and without any reconfiguration, help make J.D. Edwards OneWorld an ideal enterprise software solution for utilizing the power of cluster technology. The clustered solutions lab allows J.D. Edwards Platform Technologies and technical software QA teams, and Compaq engineers to conduct extensive fail-over testing in a dedicated, reliable environment resulting in proven, predictable customer solutions. J.D. Edwards collaborative business software -- supply chain, CRM and ERP -- greatly enhances a company's ability to optimize collaborative commerce with its customers, partners and suppliers. Besides offering a prototype environment for customers interested in clustering technology, the J.D. Edwards lab is also used to test new versions of OneWorld under various clustering solution configurations. This can mean a much higher level of out-the-door quality, not only of OneWorld, but also of the underlying compatibility of its open architecture. For more information visit www.jdedwardsnews.com