JD Edwards

J.D. Edwards World Solution Company or JD Edwards, abbreviated JDE, was an Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software company. Products included World for IBM AS/400 minicomputers (the users using a computer terminal or terminal emulator), OneWorld for CNC architecture (a client–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, and C. Edward “Ed” McVaney. It was purchased by PeopleSoft, Inc. in 2003.

PeopleSoft, in turn, was purchased by Oracle Corporation in 2005, and Oracle continues to sell and support EnterpriseOne^[1] and World^[2] ERP software line.