J.D. Edwards maakt voorlopige financiële resultaten tweede kwartaal 2003 bekend

Baarn, 6 mei 2003 - J.D. Edwards & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC) maakt vandaag zijn voorlopige financiële resultaten voor het tweede kwartaal 2003 bekend. Het tweede kwartaal eindigde op 30 april 2003.

J.D. Edwards President en CEO, Bob Dutkowsky becommentarieert: "Onze verwachting aan het begin van het tweede kwartaal was dat we meer grote transacties zouden sluiten. Het goede nieuws is dat de nog niet gesloten transacties niet verloren zijn gegaan aan de concurrentie. We blijven intussen het accent leggen op het verbeteren van onze productontwikkeling, op verkoop- en marketinginitiatieven en op het vergroten van onze cash flow."

Op 29 mei 2003 zal J.D.Edwards de officiële resultaten bekendmaken en een conference call organiseren.

Voor meer informatie zie onderstaand Engelstalig persbericht.

J.D. Edwards announces preliminary results for the second quarter ended April 30, 2003

DENVER, May 6, 2003 - J.D. Edwards & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC) today announced preliminary results for the quarter ended April 30, 2003. The Company expects total revenue to be in the range of $200 million to $205 million, which is within approximately five percent of what the Company indicated at the beginning of the quarter. License revenue is expected to be between $42 million and $45 million and services revenue is expected to be between $157 million and $160 million. GAAP results are projected to be a loss of $0.01 or $0.02 per share, and pro forma results are projected to be earnings of $0.00 or $0.01 per diluted share. The cash and investment balance is expected to increase to approximately $400 million.

"As we entered the second quarter, we anticipated that more large transactions would close in the quarter," said J.D. Edwards Chairman, President and CEO, Bob Dutkowsky. "We closed five transactions greater than $1 million in the second quarter, compared to nine in the second quarter of fiscal 2002 and eight last quarter. In addition to the five million-dollar-plus software transactions that we closed in the quarter, we've been working on a number of other multi million dollar transactions. Several of these transactions also involve J.D. Edwards services offerings. We felt that one or more of these very significant transactions would be signed in our second quarter. While we have been selected as the vendor of choice in these specific transactions, the timing of when they will ultimately close is difficult to predict. As we've seen with other software vendors, the challenging economic conditions continue to dampen IT spending, especially for the very large transactions."

"I'm encouraged that none of the large transactions that did not close in our second quarter were lost to our competitors. I'm also encouraged that we did not experience abnormal slippage of our average-sized transactions and our services business stabilized. While the timing of specific transactions is beyond our control, we remain focused on the business fundamentals that we control, for example, improving our own execution in the areas of product development, sales and marketing initiatives and cash collection, to name just a few."

Final results for the quarter will be released on May 29, 2003, at which time the Company will host a conference call.

Over J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards (Nasdaq: JDEC), leverancier van collaborative bedrijfssoftware, ondersteunt organisaties bij de optimalisatie van interne en externe bedrijfsprocessen. De onderneming biedt advies, training en diensten rond J.D. Edwards 5, haar totaalpakket bedrijfsoplossingen. J.D. Edwards 5 omvat een volledige reeks geïntegreerde modules op het vlak van Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Supplier Relationship Management, Collaboration & Integration, Business Intelligence en Tools & Technology. Klanten van J.D. Edwards bepalen zelf in intensief overleg en in nauwe samenwerking met J.D. Edwards, welke deeloplossing ze op welk tijdstip inzetten. Zo ontstaan er gebruiksvriendelijke, duurzame en resultaatgerichte oplossingen.

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