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Pervasive Software was a company that developed software including database management systems and extract, transform and load tools. Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Data Profiler are integration products, and the Pervasive PSQL relational database management system is its primary data storage product. These embeddable data management products deliver integration between corporate data, third-party applications and custom software.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pervasive Industry Solutions )〕 Pervasive Software was headquartered in Austin, Texas, and sold its products with partners in other countries. The company is involved in cloud computing through DataSolutions and its DataCloud offering〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cloud Integration )〕 along with its long-standing relationship with salesforce.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Salesforce Integration )〕 It was acquired by Actian Corp. in April 2013. ==History== Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft developing the database management system technology Btrieve. Acquired by Novell in 1987, in January 1994 Pervasive spun out as Btrieve Technologies. The company name was changed to Pervasive Software in June 1996. Their initial public offering in 1997 raised $18.6 million. Ron R. Harris was chief executive and founder Nancy R. Woodward was chairman of the board of directors (the other co-founder was her husband Douglas Woodward). Its shares were listed on the Nasdaq exchange under symbol PVSW.〔 Its database product was announced in 1999 as Pervasive.SQL version 7, and later renamed PSQL. PSQL implemented the atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability properties known as ACID using a relational database model. In August 2003, Pervasive agreed to acquire Data Junction Corporation, makers of data and application integration tools renamed Pervasive Data Integrator, for about $51.7 million in cash and stock shares. Data Junction, founded in 1984, was a privately held company also headquartered in Austin. The merger closed in December 2003. Pervasive announced development of DataRush in December 2006. DataRush is a framework written in the Java programming language to efficiently use multi-core processors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An Introduction to the Pervasive DataRush Framework )〕 In 2009 the product was released and promoted for customers to use. The results of a study done with the University of Texas on Netflix data mining using DataRush was presented at the June 2009 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. DataRush implements a software architecture that uses a dataflow model. Pervasive also acquired business-to-business data interchange service Channelinx in August 2009. Based in Greenville, South Carolina, it continued operating under the name Pervasive Business Xchange. In February 2011, Pervasive announced version 5 of DataRush, which included integration with the MapReduce programming model of Apache Hadoop. In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation for $161.9 million. Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time, and raised its price in November. Pervasive agreed to the deal in January 2013, and it closed in April. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pervasive Software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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