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February 2007 - Posts

• Are you ready for DST? If not it could be expensive!

  Our February edition of PSQL Insights covered our recommendations for patching and applying necessary updates for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time 2007 changes. I was reading an article about Microsoft’s support for old products, and applying a needed hotfix for the DST 2007 changes. It seems that some of the older products (including Windows Server 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and others) will require a user to purchase the updates for $4,000 . . . wow! Per Microsoft: "For products that have entered into the Extended Support phase, Microsoft will provide customers with the opportunity to purchase the DST 2007 hotfix at a reduced price of Four Thousand Dollars (US $4,000). Customers will only be charged a single fee of $4,000 to obtain all hotfixes, for products in Extended Support phase, needed to update their systems for DST 2007. "For customers who have previously purchased DST 2007 hotfixes for products in Extended Support, Microsoft will reimburse the difference to them under the new pricing category." A Microsoft representative said that the $4,000 price represents a substantial discount. "Originally, all the out-of-support patches were $40,000 each. However, we realized this hardship and lowered the price to $4,000 for ALL THE DST PATCHES for our customers best interest. The $4,000 is to just cover costs," he said. As I said, please read our latest edition of Insights for more information, plus it's free! http://www.pervasive.com/LP/newsletters/2007/Insights_embedded_Feb/web.asp -Jim Posted Feb 28 2007, 01:50 PM by jbeecher with no comments

• Another exciting road trip . . .

  Sorry for the lack of posting, I really need to work on this more often. I can assure you that my lack of posting is related to my workload and travel. The Pervasive team has been very busy working on various projects and deliverables as we move through calendar year 2007 so let me spend a few moments giving you an update since my last trip . . . South Africa. Yes I did go on a safari but I didn't see any lions or cheetahs . . . that requires somebody to get up early in the morning (5am) and that just was not going to happen, however the other Big 3 were accommodating. So this blog is coming to you via Italy and Belgium, once again I am on the road meeting with partners and customers trying to understand how partners are use Pervasive PSQL. This trip I learned about a customer that is hosting 2TB (yes, terabytes) of data on a Pervasive database with 250+ user accessing thousands of files, quite impressive. The other was a competitive win when the partner migrated their application from Sybase to PSQL, another great win! This type of news made up for my six flights in four days, a cancelled flight (Italian Air traffic controller decided to strike), a ensuing road trip across Italy (West coast to East coast), a night at a 29 euro hotel (1 night) and lot’s of pizza! During our meetings, we had many discussions around Windows Vista, Windows “Longhorn” and of course, new features people want to see in a future PSQL release. However Windows Vista seems to be the main topic of discussion, the good news is that our White paper “Pervasive PSQL v9 Compatibility with Windows Vista” has had several thousand downloads already, so people are interested. As I have talked in the past were reviewing our list of features for a release due late in the year and of course, full Vista compatibility is one of them. Next step . . . . Windows Longhorn! We are also getting closer to announce our long awaited .NET 2.0 provider . . . many developers have been waiting for this and the beta is almost complete, more news coming soon. The next big thing is the up-coming Daylight Savings Time change for North America; this happens March 11, 2007 so please read this month’s edition of PSQL Insights (in your email box now) or listens to my Audio update for details. For those of you that are looking for a quick answer . . . Pervasive recommends you update your Windows and Linux operating systems with the appropriate vendor update and for Pervasive PSQL v9 users we recommend you apply the latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to ensure proper date/time calculations (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp). More news soon, I promise for now . . . . Ciao, -Jim Posted Feb 28 2007, 01:48 PM by jbeecher with no comments