1. On-line Demo of Using Btrieve Over the Internet Now Available.

A complete guided tour and on-line demonstration of using Btrieve and Smithware's I*net Data Server as an Internet database solution is now available at http://www.smithware.com/ids/idsdemo/survey.html

On the guided tour, you can experience real-world Java applets that access Btrieve directly from a web page without the use of scripting languages or relying on HTML. The guided tour also features ActiveX-based applications that show true client/server database connectivity over the Internet. Browse, edit and update Btrieve data in real-time on our test servers in Nashville, Tennessee.

For more information on Smithware IDS technology, contact John Scudder via e-mail: john@smithware.com or call 615-386-3100 x16.

2. Results of Pervasive Software's IPO are in.

Software Success (http://www.softwaresuccess.com), a newsletter for Software Entrepreneurs, reports that "Pervasive Software (NASDAQ:PVSW) has raised $20 million in an IPO priced at $10 per share. Pervasive, a maker of embedded database software, now has a market value of $147.4 million based on its latest share price of $11.25. That gives the company a valuation of 6 times its annual revenues of $24.5 million, and 92 times its net income of $1.6 million." The latest NASDAQ statistics on Pervasive can be found at http://www1.nasdaq.com/scripts/quote.dll?symbol=pvsw with additional information available from Yahoo at http://quote.yahoo.com/quotes?symbols=pvsw&detailed=1y

3. Smithware Web Site Gets Overhaul.

Smithware's web site at http://www.smithware.com has undergone a major overhaul in the past few months.

The on-line knowledge base http://www.smithware.com/support/kbase/index.html now has the text from Technical Corner articles published in Btrieve Developer's Journal magazine. If for example you need help on a problem that you are having with a Btrieve status 2, simply search the knowledge base for 'status 2' and you'll get the best information available anywhere on-line.

Current versions, patches, and product updates for Smithware products are available at http://www.smithware.com/support/patches.html

Information on all Smithware products is available at http://www.smithware.com/products/index.html

4. Btrieve News Group and On-Line Discussion Group Established.

"Btrieve Developer's Journal" magazine Managing Editor Kathy Jones (e-mail: kathy@smithware.com) has been instrumental in getting the comp.databases.btrieve newsgroup up and running. This new on-line resource is a great place for collaboration and problem solving for issues relating to Btrieve.

You may want to use DejaNews from your web browser at http://search.dejanews.com/bg.xp?level=comp.databases.btrieve to access the news group.

Smithware also has an on-line user's group on the web at http://www.smithware.com/discussion/usergroup.html that demonstrates Smithware's new IDS technology with discussions about Btrieve issues. This discussion group is a Btrieve-based Java applet written using the new Smithware IDS Java classes for Btrieve.

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