RPMS - Software for Reps

I've taken a writing hiatus as RPMSCloud and other projects have consumed my time.
I still have random thoughts that should be posted, but only periodic time to write. Look for new (albeit still irregular) postings in the Fall of 2013.

Two years ago I wrote about purchasing my daughter a Linux-based laptop, and what it might mean for the future of Microsoft:
When Microsoft's new, rewritten operating system appears in five years or more, they will find a vastly different audience than exists even today. It will be very, very interesting to see whether they can move the market one more time....

The initial copies of RPMS Version 8 will begin shipping this month.
In Stage I, as I've described in various newsletters and E-Mails, we will replace the reliable but elderly Btrieve 6.15 with Pervasive PSL V10. It also represents our first Software as a Service (SaaS) offering....

As you might expect, I have several computers for which I am responsible. Counting all of them at our company, my personal machine, my wife's computer and our children's machines, I think there are seventeen total.
One that I have is a Pentium computer that I purchased through a reseller from Dash, a local computer distributor here in Kansas City, back in late 2000. It is still running flawlessly. Even so, given it's advanced age, older software and operating system...