J.D. Edwards World Solution Company or JD Edwards, abbreviated JDE, was acomputer software company which made its name building three generations of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software including World for IBM AS/400 minicomputers (the users using acomputer terminal or terminal emulator), OneWorld for CNC architecture (aclient–server fat client), and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (a web-based thin client). The company was founded March 1977 in Denver, Colorado by Jack Thompson, C.T.P. "Chuck" Hintze, Dan Gregory, andEd McVaney.
JD Edwards was purchased by PeopleSoft, Inc. in 2003. PeopleSoft, in turn, was purchased by Oracle Corporation in 2005. Oracle Corp. continues to sell and support the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne [1] and World [2] ERP software line.
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