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Business Integration for SMB - Living In Between

PERVASIVE DataSolutions - The next generation of data integration solutions. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:40:53 GMT

Business integration software today is delivered in different forms; on-premises (OP) , hosted , or as a service (SaaS) . Many vendors would passionately argue one delivery model over the other, making valid arguments about why one may work better than the others. read more...(read more)

Bill Gates - 30 years later . . .

jbeecher — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:13:00 GMT

With Bill Gates leaving his day-to-day role at Microsoft, I thought I share the article on the famous Albuquerque Microsoft photo of the orignal members. In deed, we have all changed and been changed because of Microsoft and its famous founder.

Enjoy the past

Pervasive PSQL v9.52 (SP2), update 62 has been posted

jbeecher — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:21:00 GMT

Our support team has posted the latest update for Pervasive PSQL v9.52 (SP2), update 62 is now available for download. This update can be applied to existing versions of Pervasive PSQL v9.50 (SP2) or higher.

View the readme for a list of resolved issues.

Diminishing returns from virtualization will affect larger core count server sales

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:33:05 GMT

I just got back from an HP show where I had some interesting conversations regarding the crisis that hasn't seemed to have happened yet. The key to the Sherlock Holmes mystery, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was this: Why the dog didn't bark? Why hasn't the so-called multicore crisis been seen as a crisis? Why isn't there any angst over lack of parallelized applications and engines? Why is IT still buying multicore servers when they aren't doing development that can...(read more)

Mom! Have you seen my software?

PERVASIVE DataSolutions - The next generation of data integration solutions. — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:33:37 GMT

Most software companies that have sold a single byte of code have a smart, slick, thought-up-on-Madison-Avenue slogan that tries to convince you they are the right choice. After hearing thousands of these slogans I have realized they are all saying the same thing. From Microsoft talking about your potential and their passion , to Oracle bragging about powering the internet , to Saleforce.com touting the lack of software , they are all transmitting a consistent message: "Let us sell you software...(read more)

PSQL v10.10 is now Generally Available - Download Now!

jbeecher — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:34:00 GMT

PSQL v10.10 is now Generally Available and trial downloads are available now!

PSQL v10.10 supports all of the latest Windows releases (Vista, Windows Server 2008, XP SP3) and

Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 and 10).

Click here’s to see the latest Pervasive PSQL v10.10 - README - General Release - Jun 2008.

Questions or comments should be posted to the PSQL v10 Community Forum

the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:59:05 GMT

At a recent industry conference, it was shown that the biggest growth area in computing is HPC, or High Performance Computing. This was surprising, even to those in this field, as it has historically been a fairly small, insular, academic area populated by geeky professors and hard-working grad students, all using Fortran. But a new phrase has become common, HPCC, or High Performance Commercial Computing. This is an attempt to make a distinction between the academic world and the business world,...(read more)

Explaining our secret sauce - Part Two

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:04:45 GMT

The first time I blogged on this, Explaining our secret sauce , I referenced the Wikipedia entry for "dataflow programming". I have subsequently learned that it would be more accurate to point to Kahn Process Networks as the specific type of dataflow that was the genesis for our Pervasive DataRush library and engine. "KPN is a common model for describing signal processing systems where infinite streams of data are incrementally transformed by processes executing in sequence or parallel...(read more)

Multi-threaded development joins Gates as yesterday's man

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:26:51 GMT

"...the validity of multi threading is under attack. Veteran programmer Knuth said in a recent interview that multi threading may not be up to the task and could fail. As such, he is "unhappy" with the current trend towards multi-core architectures." “To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on...(read more)

Analysis -- the "Plastics" of today

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:36:33 GMT

Before our current crop of graduates were born, there was the movie "The Graduate". One famous scene has our hero walking around at a party in his honor. He is given some sage career advice: "One word. Plastics". The newest member of the DataRush team, who is still a student, found the following quote and thought it was interesting and very DataRush related. Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist (and intellectual superhero), says on a Freakonomics blog post: “If you are looking...(read more)

The X=X+1 Issue

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:03:15 GMT

A very clear explanation of why writing parallel apps is a challenge with procedural languages, versus declarative approaches. Although Java is procedural, our Java implementation of dataflow is avoids this pitfall. "The ability to assign a memory location with variable data is the cornerstone of computer programming. It turns out the ability to re-assign that same memory location is perhaps one of the biggest consternations in the parallel programming world. At the time, multiple assignment...(read more)

PSQL v10 in the news . . .

jbeecher — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:03:00 GMT

Read the Eweek.com article from Dan Berthiaume about PSQL v10 and how it improved performance for our partner PROFITsystems:

Keeping an Eye on Home Furnishingshttp://www.eweek.com/c/a/Retail/Keeping-an-Eye-on-Home-Furnishings/

PROFITsystems gains speed and flexibility with Pervasive Software database.

The second article from Alexandra DeFelice of Webcpa.com highlights the Pervasive OEM program and the unique partnership we deliver:

Pervasive's Tailor-made System

http://www.webcpa.com/article.cfm?articleid=27975&pg=ros&hbxcg=technology

When companies approach Pervasive Software about becoming partners, they don’t receive pamphlets outlining what’s required of them or even how much margin they will receive.That’s because every relationship is tailor-made.

Enjoy.

Multicore is most disruptive

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:00:35 GMT

Gartner has published a list of the top 10 most disruptive technologies of the next 5 years, and multicore is number one. You can see the presentation here: Top-10 Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012 Speaker: Carl Claunch & David Cearley View presentation We would probably include cheap storage as the second item on the list - Fry's has 1-Terabyte drives for $169 this week - but the combination of cheap storage and multicore power is surely a disruptive pairing. Why is more power disruptive...(read more)

Explaining our secret sauce

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:32:19 GMT

We wish we had some competition. If there was some other vendor implementing dataflow, then we would not have the sole responsibility of teaching people about this approach. While there are certainly a large number of people who are familiar with the concept, most of the people we are meeting in presenting DataRush are not. When we explain and illustrate the phenomenal results (as in 3 hours to 22 seconds), often the first question is "How can this be?" My response has been to point them...(read more)

The tubas are blaring and the drums are pounding.

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:12:27 GMT

I just returned from our first presentation of DataRush to potential partners, SIs, and developers. While we have exhibited at a bunch of shows like JavaOne, Innotech, and the HP Global Showcase, and while we have briefed a bunch of smart press people and analysts, this was our first time with this type of audience. Overall, we were very pleased at the interest and response to our story. The IT environment is looking for practical solutions to utilizing the multicore power that is flooding into the...(read more)

Low-Latency Technology Outpacing Programmers’ Capabilities

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:45:02 GMT

"Again and again, executives said that finding enough programmers who are able to write "parallel" code -- programs that efficiently divide workloads across distributed processors -- is almost impossible. As Wall Street firms rely on multicore processing and even distributed computing to handle the ever-growing number of trade-related messages that are sensitive to any increase in data latency, the divergence between the capabilities of the technology and the capabilities of the programmers...(read more)

PSQL v10.10 Release Candidate 2 now available for download

jbeecher — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:26:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce that the Pervasive PSQL v10.10 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download. The release includes new features and enhancements around new operating system support including Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, and both 32-bit and 64-bit support for Linux Distributions.

I encourage users to review the readme and download a copy of the Release Candidate 2 and start testing. Additional support is available via the Pervasive Community Forum for v10.10 beta.

Are you attending Pervasive's Metamorphosis 8.0

jbeecher — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:51:00 GMT

Pervasive will be holding this years Metamorphosis 8.0 in San Jose, California next week. I plan on attending and will be available to meet with partners and customers to discuss product features, roadmap, technology and much more.

Hope to see you there!

If your interested in learning more about Metamorphosis 8.0, click here

-Jim

The Lawnmower Law

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:10:52 GMT

This article is a simple illustrative introduction to Amdahl's Law. "Indeed, just as with parallel processors, there is a point of diminishing return. Adding the first 10 riding mowers reduced the time by 36 minutes. Adding another 30 only saved me 4 minutes. Adding 100 mowers makes little sense since I’ll never get below 20 minutes. (Although I would love to see such a lawn mowing demolition derby — in my neighbors yard of course.)"...(read more)

Pervasive PSQL 10.01 - Update 3 in now available

jbeecher — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:04:00 GMT

The support team has released the latest update for Pervasive PSQL Summit v10.01 - Update 3, build 070 is available for download!

This update is for existing versions of Pervasive PSQL v10.0 and should not be applied to the existing Pervasive PSQL v10.10 beta.

-Jim

Intel Itanium to go quad-core in early 2009

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:13:52 GMT

I didn't know there was an Itanium Solutions Alliance, but this article includes the road map for Intel's continued commitment to Itanium, notably, going to a single-die quadcore. I noticed a display for the Itanium JVM in the Intel booth at JavaOne, and it is also mentioned in the article, but it doesn't specify the OS. We are looking forward to testing on it as soon as we can. As you can see here , we achieved great results in our scalability tests on the 32-core HP Integrity server...(read more)

Back from JavaOne

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:14:24 GMT

We all made it back without anyone getting the norovirus , and it was a really great show for us. We were excited to be invited to show DataRush in the AMD booth and to participate in their keynote talk. It is clear that lots of developers, architects, and project managers are feeling the pain of parallel programming, and are realizing that this challenge is real, is not going to go away, and that they have to find alternative approaches. I was too busy to walk the floor, but it was fun for me to...(read more)

Pervasive Corporate and Windows Server 2008

jbeecher — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:47:00 GMT

In the past, I have talked about Pervasive PSQL v10.10 being Certified for Windows Server 2008 and the value this brings to our partners and customers. In addition to product certification, the internal Pervasive IT team has adopted Windows Server 2008 to provide increased security, productive, and better support to their customers (internal and external) using the latest technology features that Windows Server 2008 offers around Terminal Services.

Working with a Microsoft partner a customer success story has been written that highlights our use . . .

Multicore Parallel Programming: Can We Please do it Right This Time? – IEEE Electronic Design Processes Workshop 2008

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:21:50 GMT

Dr. Tim Mattson of Intel is someone to whom we listen closely. He has a better sense of the current situation than nearly anyone else we have spoken with, and he understands and appreciates our efforts with DataRush. He recently spoke at the IEEE DATC Electronic Design Processes Workshop, and this article highlights some of his points. Mattson demolished another favorite idol of computer science: the parallel programming language. It’s a well-known trait of computer scientists that they will try...(read more)

Programming Language popularity

Pervasive DataRush - Unleash the Power of Multicore — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:19:54 GMT

Although less frequently now, cccasionally we are still asked about our choice of Java as the language we used to create DataRush. There were many reasons, all valid, but my initial response when I heard the question was why not Java? I had not understood how much market perception still existed around the original impressions from a decade ago -- Java is slow, is big, is constraining. But those who are actively writing applications today are clear on the reality of Java today. We were recently told...(read more)