 | |
| Industry | Software |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1987 (1987) in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States |
| Defunct | 1997 (1997) |
| Fate | Acquired by Compuware |
| Headquarters | Nashua, New Hampshire, |
| Products | See § Notable products |
NuMega Technologies was a software company founded in 1987 by Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun in Nashua, New Hampshire. The company specialised in developer tools, including debuggers, profilers and runtime error-detection utilities for MS-DOS and the Windows NT family. Its best-known product was SoftICE, a kernel-mode debugger that ran below the operating system and was widely used by developers and security researchers.
History
NuMega was founded in 1987 and built its reputation on low-level debugging tools for the Windows platform. Its flagship product SoftICE operated at the kernel level, allowing developers to debug code that would otherwise be invisible to user-mode tools, including device drivers and operating system components.
In 1995, the company acquired the Marquis Computing, Inc. assets VB/CodeReview and VB/FailSafe,1 and hired its president, Hank Marquis to manage NuMega's Visual Basic product line.2
In December 1997, NuMega was acquired by Compuware, becoming NuMega Labs of Compuware.3 The lab subsequently moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, and was shut down on 11 June 2007.4
In June 2009, Compuware sold the former NuMega product portfolio, intellectual property and remaining staff to UK-based Micro Focus.5
Notable products
- SoftICE
- DriverStudio
- BoundsChecker (Automated runtime error detection)
- DevPartner Studio
- DevPartner Java Edition
- SmartCheck (Visual Basic Error Detection)
- TrueTime (Profiling)
- TrueCoverage (Code coverage)
- CodeReview (Source code based error detection)
- FailSafe (Improved Visual Basic error handling)
- DevPartner SecurityChecker
- DevPartner Fault Simulator
- CV/1 (Microsoft CodeView on a single monitor)
- Magic CV (Microsoft CodeView running in less RAM)
Notable employees
- Matt Pietrek
- Mark Russinovich — software developer who began his career at NuMega and later became CTO of Microsoft Azure6
- Hank Marquis — joined with the Marquis Computing acquisition; later a Leadership Partner at Gartner7
References
References
- "NUMEGA DEVELOPS SMARTCHECK DEBUGGER FOR VISUAL BASIC". TechMonitor. 1997-07-23. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- "NuMega Technologies acquires Marquis Computing, Inc. Products!". 1995-12-30. Archived from the original on 1996-12-30. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- "Compuware Corporation Announces It Has Completed The Acquisition Of NuMega Technologies, Inc". Compuware News. 1998-12-02. Archived from the original on December 2, 1998. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- Announcement on Matt Pietrek's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/archive/2007/06/11/r-i-p-numega-lab.aspx
- "Acquisition of the Testing & ASQ Business of Compuware - Micro Focus". 2009-05-06. Archived from the original on 2013-03-10. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
- Mark Russinovich on #64Podnutz (2:00/1:03:09)
- "Better Error Traps Coming for Coders". BYTE. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1997-03-01. Archived from the original on 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2022-02-13.