NuMega explained

NuMega Technologies, Inc.
Founded:	in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Fate:	Acquired by Compuware
Products:	See § Notable products
Industry:	Software
Hq Location:	Nashua, New Hampshire

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

• Matt Pietrek
• Mark Russinovich

Notes and References

1. [Mark Russinovich]
2. Web site: NUMEGA DEVELOPS SMARTCHECK DEBUGGER FOR VISUAL BASIC . TechMonitor . 1997-07-23 . 2022-02-13 .
3. Web site: NuMega Technologies acquires Marquis Computing, Inc. Products! . 1995-12-30. 2022-02-13. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/19961230084052/http://www.marquistools.com/. 1996-12-30.
4. Web site: Compuware Corporation Announces It Has Completed The Acquisition Of NuMega Technologies, Inc. . Compuware News . 1998-12-02 . 2012-02-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/19981202150755/http://www.compuware.com/news/121597.htm . December 2, 1998 . (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. Web site: Acquisition of the Testing & ASQ Business of Compuware - Micro Focus. 2009-05-06. 2012-12-05. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130310214250/http://www.microfocus.com/aboutmicrofocus/pressroom/releases/pr20090506457587.asp. 2013-03-10.
7. 1997-03-01 . Better Error Traps Coming for Coders. dead . BYTE . McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. . https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1997-03_OCR . 2009-05-06 . 2022-02-13. (Archived)