Pervasive Software Works with HP to Help Developers Tap the Power of Multicore Processing

Pervasive DataRush Scales Linearly on 32-Core HP Integrity Server Running HP-UX 11i

AUSTIN, Texas – March 10, 2008 - Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global value leader in embeddable data management and agile integration software, today announced the results of two benchmark tests that ran Pervasive DataRush™, a Java development framework for quickly building highly parallel data processing applications for today's multicore hardware, on a 32-core HP Integrity server running HP-UX 11i with HP Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) Version 6.0.00. The K-means and Levenshtein distance tests recorded linear scalability for Pervasive DataRush across all 32 cores.

"Building parallelized software, especially for data-intensive applications, remains complex, time-consuming and error-prone," said Mike Hoskins, CTO and general manager of Integration Products at Pervasive. "The key to Pervasive DataRush's power is its ability to deliver speed and dividing processing up in an intelligent fashion. With these benchmarks, we've demonstrated that Pervasive DataRush not only hides the complexity of parallel data processing but seamlessly scales to light up all 32 cores in a state-of-the-art multicore SMP machine. We're excited to align our priorities for innovation in data processing with leading companies like HP that are developing multicore hardware, operating systems and Java support with the developer community in mind."

Pervasive DataRush gives Java developers a framework to write applications that harness the power of multicore – once – in a scalable and cost-effective way, eliminating the need to rewrite code each time an application runs on a server with additional cores. Pervasive DataRush enables applications to leverage the benefits of multicore processing while eliminating the strain of constantly re-optimizing applications in a fast-evolving hardware environment.

"These benchmark results effectively demonstrate that Pervasive DataRush with HP's Java SE 6 on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i provides an exemplary platform for developing, integrating and deploying Java applications to harness multicore processing," said Lorraine Bartlett, worldwide director of Integrity server marketing, HP. "This achievement supports the reality of Java's ‘write once, run anywhere' vision and HP's commitment to Java as an open, vendor-neutral standard platform."

About Pervasive DataRush
Pervasive DataRush is now available as a free beta download at www.pervasivedatarush.com.

About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software (NASDAQ: PVSW) helps companies get the most out of their data investments through embeddable data management and agile integration software. The embeddable PSQL database engine allows organizations to successfully embrace new technologies while maintaining application compatibility and robust database reliability in a near-zero database administration environment. Pervasive's agile, multi-purpose integration platform accelerates the sharing of information between multiple databases, applications, or hosted business systems and allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Pervasive's hallmark is the size, diversity and loyalty of its customer base, partners and channels: tens of thousands of customers in virtually every industry, in more than 150 countries, rely on Pervasive to manage, integrate, analyze and secure their critical data. For additional information, go to www.pervasive.com

Cautionary Statement
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