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Annual Conference Brings Together Integration Users for Two-Day Best Practices Summit AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pervasive Software(R) Inc. (NASDAQ:PVSW), a global value leader in agile, embeddable data management and integration software, is hosting IntegratioNEXT, its annual integration user conference, from October 22-23, 2007, at the Renaissance Austin hotel in Austin, Tex. The conference features a highly interactive setting in which attendees can participate in breakout sessions led by both Pervasive technologists and Pervasive customers. It is designed for sharing best practices and innovative approaches to the data integration challenge. "Although the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market is maturing rapidly, there are still a myriad of data integration challenges," according to Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies and founder of the SaaS Showplace, who will be the keynote speaker at IntegrationNEXT. "Pervasive has put together a compelling conference agenda that blends together hands-on technical sessions with real-world customer use cases. I'm pleased to have the opportunity to discuss the business implications of these data integration issues at this event." Attendees will also hear from a variety of industry professionals who will share their experience, knowledge and expertise in areas such as SaaS and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Pervasive customers and partners to present include Astadia, CGI, Cerner, Countrywide Home Loans, Customer Connect, EC Wise, ENSCO, Inc., Hines REIT, Intuit, Killeen ISD, Pediatrix Medical Group and Pointserve. Attendees will have unprecedented insight into Pervasive's innovation roadmap, including: * A sneak preview of Pervasive Data Integrator(TM) v9 -- exciting DMS functionality, more new capabilities * Integration product and solution architecture -- thorough exploration with Pervasive's experts * New product configurations, and what they'll mean to Pervasive users * New Pervasive Data Profiler(TM) v4 -- parallel data processing capabilities on multi-core servers, plus more new capabilities * Over-the-horizon views into the future of integration Pervasive experts in technical support and engineering will be on hand to provide users with the tools and techniques needed to overcome challenges and achieve fast, easy and affordable integration. For more information, please visit http://lp.pervasive.com/content/integrationext/. "Pervasive Software is delivering a high-impact user conference by balancing technical sessions and customer use cases," comments Lonnie Wills, VP of Global Services at Astadia Consulting, LLC. "Whether you are a new or long-time Pervasive user, IntegrationNEXT is a great place to exchange ideas, get face-to-face with Pervasive's technical team and hear about future Pervasive innovations. As a presenter this year, I have the opportunity to share best practices with others and how my team was able to transcend the integration challenge using Pervasive products to meet our customers' needs." "It's incredibly compelling to hear straight from partners and customers about their innovations and successes on tackling the really tough integration problems that organizations worldwide struggle with every day," said Mike Hoskins, CTO of Pervasive Software. "In Austin next week, we will hear firsthand about some of the most creative, sophisticated integration technology solutions across the globe, including embedded integration, integration between disparate data and legacy systems, integration in SOA environments, transforming massive data volumes, and real-time connection of on-premises and SaaS applications. The level of energy, collaboration and interaction is inspiring for both partners and customers, and they'll go back with heightened ability to deliver powerful, agile integration for their organizations." About Pervasive Integration Pervasive's embeddable integration software takes the agony out of moving and sharing data within and between organizations. It allows users to quickly and easily share information between multiple databases, applications, or hosted business systems. The capability is lightweight and fits into virtually any environment while adapting quickly to change. Combining robust technology and more than 20 years of data integration expertise, Pervasive delivers a multi-purpose integration platform that allows customers to re-use the same software for diverse integration scenarios. With more than 150 data and application connectors within a single product, Pervasive helps customers achieve accelerated ROI. In addition, Pervasive's technology and business model supports low-cost adoption by non-programmers for small data volumes all the way to complex, high-volume multi-processor implementations that handle millions of transactions. For more information, visit http://www.pervasive.com/solutions/. About Pervasive Software Pervasive Software (NASDAQ:PVSW) provides embeddable data management and integration software to help companies grow and extend the value of their data investments. For more than two decades, Pervasive products have delivered value with a compelling combination of performance, flexibility, reliability and low total cost of ownership. Today, Pervasive is leading its chosen markets by defining and accelerating the inevitable transition from high cost to high value. 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 http://www.pervasive.com/. Cautionary Statement This release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements included in this document are based upon information available to Pervasive as of the date hereof, and Pervasive assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. All Pervasive brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pervasive Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Contact: Kim Daugherty Pervasive Software 512.231.6507 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070502/PVSWLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Pervasive Software CONTACT: Kim Daugherty of Pervasive Software, +1-512-231-6507, Web site: http://www.pervasive.com/ http://lp.pervasive.com/content/integrationext http://www.pervasive.com/solutions

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