Initial Clients
Start-up clients included McCoy Sales in Denver, Colorado, a then $4-million wholesale distribution company and Cincinnati Milacron Company, a makers of machine tools. McVaney and his team got a $75,000 contract to write software to develop a wholesale distribution system. The new company also got a $50,000 contract with the Colorado Highway Department to develop a governmental accounting, construction cost accounting system. McVaney's first international client was Shell Oil Company in Cameroon, Africa. Co-founder Dan Gregory flew to Shell Oil, himself to install the company's first international, multi-national, multi-transcurrency client software system. JD Edwards' software was originally coded for the IBM System 36/38 and later upgraded to support the AS/400 and called JD Edwards World Software. In the late 1990s, the software was ported to client–server sysems and branded JD Edwards OneWorld. After JD Edwards was bought by PeopleSoft in 2002, the OneWorld product was rebranded PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne. After PeopleSoft was bought out by Oracle Corporation in 2004, the product was rebranded JD Edwards EnterpriseOne as the PeopleSoft name itself was to be phased out. From the start, JDE, as it would come to be known, was created with mid-sized companies in mind.
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