Pervasive Software announced PROFITsystems, one of the largest retail home goods solutions provider in the world, has successfully implemented Pervasive PSQL Summit™ v10 to power its business management software, PROFITprofessional 11.3 and enable the launch of its on-demand offering. PROFITsystems has benefited from Pervasive's database expertise for more than 25 years, and it continues to enhance the power of its software by taking full advantage of the speed, security and flexibility available from Pervasive's maintenance-free embedded database.

Pervasive Software announced Metamorphosis 8.0, its eighth executive summit, will be held May 28-29, 2008 at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, Calif. Metamorphosis 8.0 spotlights integration best practices and real-world experiences, including hands-on knowledge of complex integrations between SaaS and on-premises applications, by and for Independent Software Vendors (ISV), Systems Integrators (SI), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors and data processors. Additionally, the ISVs, SIs, data processors and SaaS vendors presenting come from a wide variety of industries, such as healthcare and financial services, to educate one another on successful business and technology strategies that drive high-ROI and rapid results for customers leveraging Pervasive's agile integration.

Dax Jones, senior systems engineer for Pervasive Software, will present at the Answers on Demand 2008 User's Conference to be held May 12–16, 2008, at the Delray Beach Marriott Hotel in Delray Beach, Fla. Jones' presentation, titled "Optimize Your Pervasive Database to Accelerate Performance," will be held May 14 from 9:30 a.m.—11:00 a.m. EDT in the Coral Reef conference room.

Dax Jones, senior systems engineer for Pervasive Software, will be presenting at Sage Software's Insights 2008 Conference taking place May 12-15, 2008 at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Jones' presentation, titled "Optimize Your Pervasive Database to Accelerate Performance," will be held May 15 from 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Pervasive is also exhibiting on the show floor, booth #201.

Pervasive Software will demonstrate and discuss updates to its framework for Java developers wanting to tackle the multicore hardware/software divide: Pervasive DataRush™. Since the introduction of Pervasive DataRush at the 2007 JavaOne Conference, greater numbers of affordable 4-, 8- and even 16- or 32-core SMP servers have come to market quickly, leaving software developers even further behind in the effort to capture the full value of multicore power. Pervasive DataRush was designed to help build the next generation of scalable, high-performing applications to crunch through massive data volumes with ease utilizing multicore hardware.