For Immediate Release                             Contact:  Marian Kelley 
                                                                                 Director of Corporate Communications 
                                                                                 512.231.6033
                                                                                 marian.kelley@pervasive.com
 

 PERVASIVE UNITES WITH CHILD ALERT FOUNDATION TO SPEED  

THE SEARCH FOR MISSING PERSONS

Company Heeds President Bush's Call for Private and Public Sector
to Join in Abduction Prevention and Search for Missing Children

Austin, TEXAS—August 7, 2002 –– Pervasive Software^® Inc. (Nasdaq: PVSW), a leading provider of embedded and Web database software that powers business-critical applications, today announced it is donating the latest version of its flagship product, Pervasive.SQL™, to the Child Alert Foundation (CAF)^©, in an effort to help speed the dissemination of information to law enforcement officials, the media and others when a child or adult is reported kidnapped or missing. The software donated by Pervasive improves the speed and reliability of the CAF Abduction Central Alert (ACA)^© system, which runs on an earlier version of Pervasive's database. The system is deployed across 14 states and growing.

"In an abduction situation, a minute can equal a mile and the sooner the authorities and media are alerted, the greater the chance of finding that individual alive," said Vincent Albers III, vice president and co-founder of the Child Alert Foundation. "That makes speed and reliability of our data truly mission critical. We reviewed many database software packages but only Pervasive.SQL provided those essential elements, plus ease-of-use, ease-of-deployment, and connectivity to the Web."

"The ACA program is based on the six-year-old Amber Plan which is only now getting widespread media coverage, as a result of all of the high-profile abductions. What the public and government officials need to understand is that six years in the world of technology is like moving from a twin-engine plane to the space shuttle," Albers added. "While adopting the Amber Plan is a good first step, the vehicle that communities will actually need to implement for a complete, automated alert process comes from ACA."

The automated ACA system identifies the target city of an abduction and contacts police, radio and TV stations as well as other law enforcement agencies within a 100-mile radius providing an immediate first alert notification. The ACA software uses the latest developments in Internet database management and computer telecommunications to deliver critical information about abductions via pagers, fax, email, Web-capable cell phones, Internet alarms and more, to provide police nationwide with a new tool to combat this crime.

"I cannot imagine a more mission-critical software application relevant to all of our lives each day and am thrilled that our product is the core technology behind such an important tool," said David Sikora, president and CEO of Pervasive Software. "When we saw an application where speed, reliability and connectivity are truly critical, the decision to donate the upgrade software was an obvious one to make. Like the President and Attorney General Ashcroft, we would like to see the system more widespread."

About Child Alert Foundation
Established in 1998, the Child Alert Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charity that provides the most advanced implementation of the Amber Plan or Amber Alert ever developed. The Child Alert Foundation is dedicated to assisting police, sheriff and 911 facilities to notify their surrounding community using the state of the art Abduction Central Alert (ACA) software application. Once activated, the ACA community notification system activates pagers, transmits faxes, sends email notifications, builds Internet websites and much more.  For more information visit www.childalert.org.

About Pervasive Software
Pervasive Software, a leading provider of embedded and Web data management solutions for small and medium-size enterprises, serves a channel of more than 10,000 independent software vendors, developers, value-added resellers and partners.  Pervasive Software's flagship product, Pervasive.SQL, is a leading application development database, combining low-cost, reliable, resource-efficient operations with world-class performance and usability.  In addition, Pervasive.SQL 2000i has a 7-to-1 cost advantage over Microsoft SQL Server, according to research from the Aberdeen Group.  Founded in 1994, Pervasive is based in Austin, Texas, and also has offices in Europe and distributors covering 100 countries.  More information may be found on the Web at www.pervasive.com or by calling 800.287.4383.

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.  Forward-looking statements are generally preceded by words such as "may," "plans," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "estimates" or "intends."  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.  Investors are cautioned that actual results could differ materially from Pervasive's current expectations.  Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, the factors and risks discussed in Pervasive's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission including, without limitation, the risk that the packaged client/server applications market will not continue to grow at historical rates and the risk that our current revenues are substantially dependent upon continued market acceptance of and revenues from our database products.

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