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R.I.P. NuMega Lab

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

I still have quite a few friends there too.

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  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2007
    This is truely sadening.   I will have to wear my NuMega plaid boxers when I return home in mourning...

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2007
    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 :)

  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2007
    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

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2007
    Boo... I loved working there during highschool, was my first real job.  Well, all things go I suppose.

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2007
    What a drag! I miss those days a lot.

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2007
    Those were fun times working on BoundsChecker. Sad news.

  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2007
    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 ;-)

  • Anonymous
    June 16, 2007
    Sad news indeed! First - SoftICE, then NuMega corp. itself...

  • Anonymous
    June 25, 2007
    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?

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2007
    Having cut my teeth on MFC programming prior to coming to Microsoft, it is nostalgic and surprising that

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2007
    Having cut my teeth on MFC programming prior to coming to Microsoft, it is nostalgic and surprising that