J.D. Edwards
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J.D. Edwards is a software company founded in March 1977 in Denver, Colorado by Jack Thompson, Dan Gregory and Ed McVaney. The company made its name building accounting software for IBM minicomputers, beginning with the System/34 and /36, focusing from the mid 1980s on System/38 mincomputers, and then switching to the AS/400 when it became available.
The company gradually added functions to its accounting software, evolving it into a platform-independent ERP application that was renamed OneWorld in 1996.
In June 2003, the J.D. Edwards board agreed to an offer under which PeopleSoft would acquire J.D. Edwards; the takeover was completed in July. OneWorld was added to Peoplesoft's software line. In late 2004, Oracle merged with the new Peoplesoft.
In May 1998, Ed McVaney donated more than $32 million to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to found the J.D. Edwards Honors Program. This program is charged with educating the next generation of business professionals by combining computer science education with business management skills.