NuMega

NuMega Technologies, Inc.
Industry	Software
Founded	1987 in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Defunct	1997
Fate	Acquired by Compuware
Headquarters	Nashua, New Hampshire
Products	See § Notable products

NuMega Technologies, Inc. (also known as NuMega), was a software company founded in 1987 by Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun in Nashua, New Hampshire. The company developed a Kernel mode debugger, now SoftICE, for DOS and the Windows NT family.[1]

In 1995, the company acquired the Marquis Computing, Inc. assets VB/CodeReview and VB/FailSafe,[2] and hired its president, Hank Marquis to manage NuMega Visual Basic products.[3]

In December 1997, the company was acquired by Compuware, when it became NuMega Labs of Compuware.[4] Less than a year after moving to Merrimack, the development lab was effectively shut down on 11 June 2007.[5] In June 2009, Compuware sold the former NuMega products, the intellectual property and transferred the remaining staff to a UK-based firm named Micro Focus.[6]

Mark Russinovich, a software developer who now serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure, started his career at NuMega.[1]

Hank Marquis, who served as a Leadership Partner at Gartner, joined Numega with the acquisition of Marquis Computing Inc.[7]

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

References

Mark Russinovich on #64Podnutz (2:00/1:03:09)
"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. (Archived)
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.
"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. (Archived)

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[PDMR-1] Mark Russinovich on #64Podnutz (2:00/1:03:09)

[2] "NUMEGA DEVELOPS SMARTCHECK DEBUGGER FOR VISUAL BASIC". TechMonitor. 1997-07-23. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

[3] "NuMega Technologies acquires Marquis Computing, Inc. Products!". 1995-12-30. Archived from the original on 1996-12-30. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

[4] "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. (Archived)

[5] Announcement on Matt Pietrek's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/archive/2007/06/11/r-i-p-numega-lab.aspx

[6] "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.

[7] "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. (Archived)