With today’s announcement from Microsoft that Windows Server 2008 has released to manufacturing and available March 1, I thought I would give you a “heads-up” on our work with Windows Server 2008. Pervasive has been working with Microsoft and their testing labs to certify Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 for the past year. Once our certification is complete, customers will be able to incorporate Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 and Windows Server 2008 jointly in productions for reliability and performance.

We anticipant our Windows Server 2008 certified beta version available within the next sixty days. In the meantime, users are encouraged to download the existing version of Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 and start performing internal and controlled testing with our current version of Pervasive PSQL v10 and Windows Server 2008 RC versions.

Since Pervasive PSQL v9 does not meet the requirements as defined by Microsoft for testing, we will not be certifying or offering compatibility. For this reason, we encourage existing customers to evaluate Pervasive PSQL Summit v10 moving forward. With PSQL v10 our new 64-bit support will allow users to maximize their next hardware and server investment around 64-bit technology and Windows Server 2008.

As we continue forward with certification and the upcoming Launch Wave (February 27, 2008) more details will be forthcoming.

-Jim