JD Edwards

History

The J.D. Edwards company was founded in March, 1977 to Denver (State of Colorado) by Jack Thompson, Dan Gregor and Ad Mkvani. The company made the name on creation of the financial software for computers of IBM, the first programs were developed for System/34 and/36, in the mid-eighties System/38, and then and AS/400 became the main platform.

Over time possibilities of initially purely financial software were strongly expanded, and in 1996 completely platform and independent ERP system called OneWorld was developed.

In May, 1998 offered Mkvani's Piece more than 32 million dollars to the University of Nebraska to base the J.D. Edwards Honors Program program. The purpose of this program was to bring up new generation of professionals in the field of information science and management.

In June, 2003 the Board of Directors of J. D. Edwards agreed to the offer of PeopleSoft on purchase of the company; by July of J. D. Edwards it was completely absorbed. ERP OneWord was added to a line of the software of PeopleSoft and renamed into EnterpriseOne.

In December, 2004 Oracle absorbed PeopleSoft, but continued to support the products created in a subsoil of J.D. Edwards. Oracle announced development the project under the name "Project Fusion". This product is created with the purpose to replace a sushchestvuyushchiya of Oracle Applications Suite and also the products PeopleSoft (Enterprise) and J.D. Edwards (OneWorld/EnterpriseOne and World).

The product EnterpriseOne suite, the last appeared version at the moment 9.00, and the latest version of WorldSoft — A9.1 continues to develop Oracle.