{{Short description|American software company, 1987–1997}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2012}} {{Infobox company | name=NuMega Technologies, Inc. | logo=NuMega logo.svg | founded={{start date and age|1987}} in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States | defunct={{end date and age|1997}} | fate=Acquired by Compuware | products=See § Notable products | industry=Software | hq_location=Nashua, New Hampshire }}
'''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,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/numega_develops_smartcheck_debugger_for_visual_basic_1 |title=NUMEGA DEVELOPS SMARTCHECK DEBUGGER FOR VISUAL BASIC |publisher=TechMonitor |date=1997-07-23 |access-date=2022-02-13 }}</ref> and hired its president, Hank Marquis to manage NuMega's Visual Basic product line.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marquistools.com/whtsnew.htm|title=NuMega Technologies acquires Marquis Computing, Inc. Products! |date=1995-12-30|access-date=2022-02-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961230084052/http://www.marquistools.com/|archive-date=1996-12-30}}</ref>
In December 1997, NuMega was acquired by Compuware, becoming NuMega Labs of Compuware.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.compuware.com/news/121597.htm |title=Compuware Corporation Announces It Has Completed The Acquisition Of NuMega Technologies, Inc. |publisher=Compuware News |date=1998-12-02 |access-date=2012-02-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981202150755/http://www.compuware.com/news/121597.htm |archive-date=December 2, 1998 }}</ref> The lab subsequently moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, and was shut down on 11 June 2007.<ref>Announcement on Matt Pietrek's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/matt_pietrek/archive/2007/06/11/r-i-p-numega-lab.aspx</ref>
In June 2009, Compuware sold the former NuMega product portfolio, intellectual property and remaining staff to UK-based Micro Focus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microfocus.com/aboutmicrofocus/pressroom/releases/pr20090506457587.asp|title=Acquisition of the Testing & ASQ Business of Compuware - Micro Focus|date=2009-05-06|access-date=2012-12-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310214250/http://www.microfocus.com/aboutmicrofocus/pressroom/releases/pr20090506457587.asp|archive-date=2013-03-10}}</ref>
==Notable products== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * 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) {{div col end}}
==Notable employees== * Matt Pietrek * Mark Russinovich — software developer who began his career at NuMega and later became CTO of Microsoft Azure<ref name="PDMR">Mark Russinovich on [http://www.podnutz.com/podnutz064 #64Podnutz (2:00/1:03:09)]</ref> * Hank Marquis — joined with the Marquis Computing acquisition; later a Leadership Partner at Gartner<ref>{{cite magazine|date=1997-03-01 |title= Better Error Traps Coming for Coders|url=https://archive.org/stream/eu_BYTE-1997-03_OCR/BYTE-1997-03_OCR_djvu.txt |url-status=dead |magazine=BYTE |publisher=McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1997-03_OCR |archive-date=2009-05-06 |access-date=2022-02-13}}</ref>
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Category:Software companies based in New Hampshire Category:Companies based in Nashua, New Hampshire Category:Defunct software companies of the United States Category:Defunct companies based in New Hampshire Category:Micro Focus International {{US-software-company-stub}}