Under The Hood - Matt Pietrek

R.I.P. NuMega Lab

In a previous post, I lamented the loss of SoftIce.

Now, we truly are at the end of an era.

Compuware is closing its development lab in New Hampshire. This is where tools like BoundsChecker, SoftIce, TrueTime, SmartCheck, CodeReview, and many others originated. (I won't attempt to name, them all, so please don't take offense if I didn't list a particular product. :-)

It's the lab where worked with many amazing folks. To name just some of the better known: John Robbins, Mark Russinovich, Russ Osterlund, Jay Hilyard. Geez... I know I'm forgetting more than I'm listing.

See http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070611/clm093.html for details.

I still have quite a few friends there too.

 

Published Monday, June 11, 2007 2:22 PM by Matt Pietrek

Comments

 

Peter Ritchie said:

This is truely sadening.  

I will have to wear my NuMega plaid boxers when I return home in mourning...

June 11, 2007 3:57 PM
 

Jay Hilyard said:

A sad day for development tools.  A bunch of very bright people who did good work brought low by inferior management.

Let's hope Team System can catch up :)

June 11, 2007 8:21 PM
 

Danny R. said:

It is a sad day indeed !! but as strong as we are ,we will continue to carry on the legacy...and I do not belive that Team System will ever catch up ,I guess time will tell ;) I have nothing but respect and adimaration to ppl like Frank Grossman ,Steve Munyan and many others

June 12, 2007 4:46 AM
 

JeffCurless said:

Boo... I loved working there during highschool, was my first real job.  Well, all things go I suppose.

June 12, 2007 11:56 AM
 

Andy Wilson said:

What a drag! I miss those days a lot.

June 12, 2007 1:47 PM
 

Jim Austin said:

Those were fun times working on BoundsChecker. Sad news.

June 13, 2007 8:15 AM
 

Manager Boy said:

All right - back to work. It's not like this hasn't been forseen for almost a half-decade.

Might even help the value of NuMega memoribilia on Ebay. We'll just need to sit in our "Code in Comfort" shorts a little longer ;-)

June 15, 2007 3:40 PM
 

PMY Archon said:

Sad news indeed! First - SoftICE, then NuMega corp. itself...

June 16, 2007 3:43 PM
 

Vice President of Long File Name Compliance said:

Hey Manager Boy!

What do you think the sign that used to hang above the front door before Compuware bought us would be worth on Ebay?

June 25, 2007 8:10 AM
 

Allan's Best Week Ever said:

Having cut my teeth on MFC programming prior to coming to Microsoft, it is nostalgic and surprising that

November 9, 2007 2:04 PM
 

Noticias externas said:

Having cut my teeth on MFC programming prior to coming to Microsoft, it is nostalgic and surprising that

November 9, 2007 2:40 PM
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