What Others are Saying about Pervasive.SQL

"The installation of V8 was excellent and by far the cleanest and easiest I've ever used," said Mark Jones, Utah Department of Health, Vital Records. "Not only were the transactional and relational tests very fast, but they passed the first time. We plan to do more testing, but initial impression is very favorable. Good work!"

"The download, installation and operation of V8 work flawlessly. My developed applications ran without any problems," said James M. Culpepper, president of W.T.F. Inc.

"As always, I got improved performance, improved network analysis and deployment and improved memory management," said Michael Sotomayor, AGRIS Corporation.

"As a provider of advanced tools and technologies for professional application developers, Data Access Worldwide encounters an unusually broad range of requirements for embeddable data management software. Our customers demand scalability - ranging from notebooks to workgroups to mid-sized firms to large institutional deployments and high transaction volume web sites and, Pervasive.SQL delivers. All data management customers demand high performance, unshakable reliability, cross-platform flexibility and low cost of ownership - and, again, Pervasive.SQL delivers. With V8, Pervasive has managed to make an already great product even better in almost every category," said Charles Casanave, President & CEO, Data Access Worldwide.

"The Btrieve performance improvements in the latest version of Pervasive.SQL actually improved the speed of our product," said Geri Tunlid, Confirm AS.

"I was amazed to see the speed increase in opening Btrieve files even running locally. Great work, Pervasive," said Sindre Solem, Emma EDB AS.

"The Pervasive control center seemed much faster in V8," said Jeff Stephens of Moore Stephens, P.C. "Opening a table to view data and allowing the customer to change the field type when editing the table are excellent feature enhancements."

"I was very happy with the performance of Pervasive.SQL V8," said Rich Overholt, product manager at Micron Systems Corporation. "It offers about a 10% performance gain for our legal recruiting database application in our Windows 2000 test lab environment. Our application works specifically with the relational Btrieve access provided by Pervasive.SQL and it is definitely a little faster now. All in all, a nice step forward! Good job guys!"

"Goldstar Software Inc. has done extensive testing on the pre-releases of Pervasive.SQL V8, and we are currently ready to sell, install, support and provide training for the Pervasive.SQL V8 database engine," said Bill Bach of GoldStar Software. "We have seen no problems from any of our database support applications on the new engine and expect great things from our implementations of the product. We are almost complete with the updates to the Pervasive.SQL service and support class and expect to be providing training on this version soon."

"With each release of Pervasive.SQL, the product has delivered a deeper impact to our application and larger return on investment to our customers," said Thilo Gukelberger, CTO and co-founder of d.velop AG. "I've never seen enhancements that will help us and impact our customers as much as those featured in V8. And, since our application is utilized mainly by large enterprises, the proven increases in performance and scalability are of top priority."

"As one of Pervasive's oldest partners, we compliment the company on the dramatic improvements we have observed in our testing of the new Pervasive.SQL V8," said Teresa Cheevers, marketing manager of FMS, Pervasive's Australian master distributor. "This release proves that Pervasive is not merely content with maintaining the engine for new operating systems and technologies. We see a continuing focus on raw V8 performance while retaining the lowest maintenance in the industry and still very easy on the wallet. It is even simpler to install. A real winner! Congratulations Pervasive."

"The Pervasive control center and enhanced network diagnostic tools are very much welcomed. They work well and let you know exactly what is going on," said Chuck Yarbrough, chief executive officer, Delta-South Communications. "Additionally, the Pervasive system analyzer is much more useful in V8. Good job!"

"While testing Pervasive.SQL V8 client/server with a report writer used in conjunction with our product, I was able to reduce the process time to one minute from what took 20 minutes previously," said Rick Gibson, an OEM technical analyst at FREEDOM. "The additional caching included with V8 has significantly and effectively reduced the network traffic that was previously generated."

"My main concern before testing was the integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The new release of V8 accomplishes it well," said Eric D. Miller, manager of IT for U.S.-based Miller Welding & Machine Company. "I also like the improved utilities that are offered with the product. Overall, it meets my expectations. I look forward to using V8."

"As for V8, we have been most impressed by the self-diagnostic functionality of the Pervasive system analyzer. This enhanced feature allows for troubleshooting and simplified deployment across multiple platforms," said Rudy Steyaert, managing director of C-LOGIC N.V.

"Pervasive adds a new dimension of speed and reliability with Pervasive.SQL V8," said Claudio Hintermann, president of Abacus Research A.G.

"AnNoText solutions are perfectly tailored to the requirements of legal practice; therefore, we need an efficient, fast database that warrants secure transactions and maximum standards of ergonomics. It also has to be compatible with server platforms such as Windows, Linux and Novell. Pervasive.SQL meets these criteria," said Ralph Vonderstein, director of development for AnNoText GmbH.

"Pervasive Software continues to raise the bar in terms of application performance, reliability and availability," said Bas Van Den Berg, managing director of Artefact. "Developing business-critical applications using Pervasive.SQL data-management software is like building a car that couples the performance of a Ferrari with the reliability of a Volkswagen. Best of all, my customers can drive a Pervasive-built solution on the highway without ever having to stop for gas or maintenance."

"We've been using the beta and controlled release versions of Pervasive.SQL V8 in our day to day support operations for several months. We've found V8 to be consistently reliable. The installation has been trouble free. The control center changes make it even easier to use than Pervasive.SQL 2000i," said David van Toor, vice president and general manager, Platinum for Windows Division of Best Software, Inc.

"Pervasive.SQL V8 offered a smooth installation. I was impressed at how well the existing Btrieve application works without modification," said Lukacs Gabor, Chello.

"As a participant of the Pervasive Inner Circle, we had the ability to provide feedback and direction to Pervasive.SQL V8 - this gave us the opportunity to see our contributions incorporated into a stable, well-performing product upon release," said Steve Reilly, vice president of Design Maintenance Systems, Inc. "The Inner Circle is another example of Pervasive's dedication to customer satisfaction."

"Edmunds & Associates, Inc. is a leading supplier of local government financial software. Our MCSJ financial suite is a Java application, so we were very interested in the Pervasive.SQL V8 JDBC driver. After extensive testing, we were impressed with the reliability of the V8 JDBC driver. During several months of use, we found that V8 continues the Pervasive tradition of speed, stability and administrative simplicity. The combination of Java and the V8 JDBC driver allows us to support Windows NT/2000, Linux and Novell with one code base. Participating in the Inner Circle program enabled us to ensure that our financial software runs optimally with Pervasive.SQL V8," said Vito Paladino of Edmunds & Associates.

"Our testing of Pervasive.SQL V8 shows that it continues the company's traditional development of faster, simpler products which are scalable, affordable and low maintenance," said Dr. Matthew J. Fagan, president of FastCAM Inc. "With easier installation and even higher performance, V8 maintains its bulletproof reputation. V8 remains scalable from one user to large systems, perfect for our applications from the smallest to national systems."

"Install was amazingly effortless. I tested the upgrade from Pervasive.SQL 7 to V8 RC and I had no problems at all," said John Dean, engineering specialist at General Electric, Energy Services.

"As a producer of business software, security and speed are our first goals to ensure a reliable and competitive product. The overall Pervasive.SQL V8 speed is better than Pervasive.SQL 2000 and in certain master batch operations it is 10 times faster. Congratulations. Pervasive wins the race," said Feliz Grangeiro, chief executive officer of Tecnologia Informática.

"Nous attendions cette nouvelle version avec impatience. Pervasive nous avait promis des changements et notamment des temps de réponse optimisés. Nous avons pu le démontrer sur notre gamme de produits Anael solutions NT. Utilisateurs depuis plus de 15 ans, nous avons apprécié la facilité d'intégration, d'installation et de maintenance, c'est donc avec plaisir que nous accueillons, aujourd'hui, Pervasive 8.0." Georges BENAYM Responsable Recherche & Développement NT GEAC Enterprise Solutions