1. Smithware Receives Readers' Choice Award

DDF Builder (http://www.smithware.com/products/winddf.html) has won the 1998 ACCESS-OFFICE-VB ADVISOR Readers' Choice Silver Award! See http://www.advisor.com/wHome.nsf/wPages/AVmain for more information on the awards and the ACCESS-OFFICE-VB ADVISOR magazine.

2. Sign up for Advanced Developer Training

If you've been looking for ways to increase your expertise in building great database applications with Pervasive products, you'll want to attend the 3-day Advanced Developer Training Course that is being held immediately before the 1998 Partner Conference - March 12-14. For complete details and a special offer for conference attendees, see http://www.pervasive.com/promotions/seminars/courses.html.

3. Smithware Sponsors Developer's Lounge

Attendees at the 1998 Pervasive Partner Conference can get up close and personal with Pervasive and Smithware product engineers and customer support representatives by visiting the Developer's Lounge. Discuss your unique situations, test out the latest development tools and programming interfaces and experience new product technology first hand. See http://www.pervasive.com/conference.html.

In the Developer's Lounge, anything goes! You can even schedule a personal conference with Pervasive or Smithware representatives by sending a message to mailto:info@smithware.com.

4. Developer Focus at the Pervasive Partner Conference

The 1998 Pervasive Partner Conference has several workshops that have been designed with the software developer specifically in mind.

Presentation topics include:

• Pervasive's New Integrated Database Solution - Pervasive.SQL: A Closer Look
• Creating Web-Enabled Applications with the new Java API
• Integrating Crystal Reports with Pervasive Database Applications
• Development Made Easy with Visual Basic
• Development Made Easy with Delphi
• Development Made Easy with Visual Cafe
• DDFs in Depth
• Inside ODBC
• Web Application Development with Pervasive Products
• Adding Relational Access to Your Btrieve Database
• Benchmarking, Performance Tuning, and Optimization
• Replication Strategies for Pervasive Products

You do not want to miss this event! Registration information is available at http://www.pervasive.com/conference.html or call 800.580.6715 today!

5. Free Pervasive.SQL Training Course

Make the transition to Pervasive.SQL easy by attending the "Introduction to Database Management and Development with Pervasive.SQL" training course. This one day training event is absolutely free and is a great way to gain practical know how on using, installing and managing the new Pervasive.SQL. The course will be held in Austin on March 15, right before the Partner Conference. Space is filling up fast, so call Lisa Quintanilla at 800-287-4383 x1574 or +512-794-1574 or mailto:lisa.quintanilla@pervasive.com for more information and to register.

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