History
Btrieve has been owned and developed by three different companies: SoftCraft, Novell and Btrieve Technologies, Inc. (later renamed Pervasive Software). They have a committed and loyal developer-base and in all the company's literature they remain fully committed to the product; in fact Pervasive have set up a "Btrieve Society" to recognise existing developers.
Under MS-DOS Btrieve up to version 5 was a Terminate-and-Stay-Resident program which functioned as an application programming interface (API) database engine, supplying applications programs with function calls to implement a multi-user database with record locking; the network version worked in a similar way.
In the early years MS-DOS versions up to version 5 sold for a relatively high price, of the order of US$1,000, but the executable Terminate-and-Stay-Resident (TSR) database engine file could be distributed with applications without payment of any licence fee.
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