J.D. Edwards' QUEST To End Its String Of Pyrrhic Victories
Part 1: The News
P.J. Jakovljevic - July 3, 2001

Event Summary

During this year's FOCUS conference, which ran from June 11 -- 14, J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC), one of the leading providers of enterprise applications, demonstrated a somewhat more galvanized strategy than the one it initiated and less successfully executed during the last year (for more information, see J.D. Edwards Chooses Freedom to Choose EAI), with its renewed mid-enterprise focus and commitment to deliver customer-driven solutions. At FOCUS, J. D. Edwards gathered its QUEST User Group, over 8,500 customers from around the world and partners that include IBM, Sun, Andersen, Accenture, Compaq, Ariba and nearly 100 other technology and consulting companies. However, the event attracted much less attention and glitz compared to those organized at almost the same time by PeopleSoft and SAP, which might also serve as an indication of the current moods within the vendors' teams...