RICHMOND, CA – October 09, 2003 – QRS Corporation (Nasdaq: QRSI) today announced the appointment of Ray Rike to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. In this expanded role, Rike will help QRS to better align its best practices across the global organization for continued international growth. With the appointment, QRS consolidates its North American and European operations into one cohesive worldwide organization.

"Ray's leadership has had an immediate and positive impact through successes including a major QRS Sourcing™ agreement and the continued strength of our trading community management business," says QRS President and CEO Liz Fetter. "His collaborative commerce and supply chain expertise, coupled with extensive customer relationships in the retail industry, will be a driving force behind our global expansion."

Rike has nearly 20 years of experience in building and leading global sales, marketing and professional service teams for enterprise-class e-commerce and supply chain companies, including Global eXchange Services (formerly GE Information Services), Netscape, MarketFirst Software, CompuServe and ECtone. He has worked with many leading names in retail, including J.C. Penney Company, Inc., Gap Inc., Levi Strauss & Co. and Saks Incorporated.

"I'm pleased with the strong momentum we've generated in North America and am eager to leverage those successes into the global market," says Rike. "By consolidating QRS' sales and field operations organizations, we are even better positioned to address the needs of the global retail trading community."

About QRS

QRS (Nasdaq: QRSI) is a leading provider of collaborative commerce solutions for the global retail trading community. We enable companies to communicate electronically with their global trading partners; conduct cross-company transactions; synchronize and manage product data; collaboratively source, merchandise and import goods; and automatically detect and resolve supply chain issues. More than 8,000* retailers, brand marketers, manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and distributors from a variety of retail segments – including Federated Department Stores Inc., Groupe Clarins USA, Jones Apparel Group Inc., The Kroger Company, Sears, Roebuck and Co., and Selfridges plc – use QRS solutions to significantly improve their overall business performance. Learn more about QRS at www.qrs.com.

*Based on total, unique QRS corporate customers that purchased or licensed QRS products and services between January and December 2002.