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Pure Software: History, Companies & Products

Pure Software was an American software development tools company founded in October 1991 by Reed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box. Its flagship product was Purify, a debugging and memory leak detection tool for Unix software applications written in C. The company is notable as the first significant venture of Reed Hastings, who later co-founded Netflix.

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Pure Software topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Pure Software.

Related topics
13
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
15
Extracted relationships
23
Related term clusters
11
Bridge connections
15

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Overview · 7 topics
History · 6 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Founded
October 1991
Industry
Software development tools
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Fate
Merged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software
Founder
Reed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box
Products
Purify, Quantify, PureLink

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Pure Software
7Software development · Reed Hastings · Purify (software)
3Atria Software · Rational Software · Chief technical officer
3Code profiling · NASDAQ · Morgan Stanley

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Overview

History

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How Pure Software connects Entity context

The extracted context around Pure Software shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Pure Software → Atria Software, August, Chief Technical Officer, Hastings, In August, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, Netflix, October, Pure Atria, Pure Atria Corporation, PureLink, Purify, Quantify, Rational Software, Revenue Another extracted example is Pure Software → Merged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Pure Software

Top relations

related to history · 16
Pure Software → Atria Software, August, Chief Technical Officer, Hastings, In August, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, Netflix, October, Pure Atria, Pure Atria Corporation, PureLink, Purify, Quantify, Rational Software, Revenue
Fate · 1
Pure Software → Merged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software
Founded · 1
Pure Software → October 1991
Founder · 1
Pure Software → Reed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box
Headquarters · 1
Pure Software → Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industry · 1
Pure Software → Software development tools
Products · 1
Pure Software → Purify, Quantify, PureLink
Successor · 1
Pure Software → Pure Atria Corporation

Important terminology

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Important terminology

software company pure hastings reed purify tools founded october 1991 netflix atria subsequently development raymond peck mark box august product

Pure Software relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 23 structured relationships around Pure Software. Examples in this analysis include Pure Software → Fate → Merged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software and Pure Software → Founded → October 1991. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Pure SoftwareFateMerged with Atria Software to form Pure Atria Corporation; subsequently acquired by Rational Software1.00infobox
Pure SoftwareFoundedOctober 19911.00infobox
Pure SoftwareFounderReed Hastings, Raymond Peck and Mark Box1.00infobox
Pure SoftwareHeadquartersSunnyvale, California, United States1.00infobox
Pure SoftwareIndustrySoftware development tools1.00infobox
Pure SoftwareProductsPurify, Quantify, PureLink1.00infobox
Pure SoftwareSuccessorPure Atria Corporation1.00infobox
Pure Softwarerelated to historyOctober0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyPurify0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyQuantify0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyPureLink0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyRevenue0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Pure Software bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Software, Atria and Hastings. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Pure Software
    • Software
    • Atria
    • Hastings
    • Purify
    • Acquired
    • Box
    • Corporation
    • Development
    • Form
    • Founded
    • Mark
    • Merged
  • pure software
    • Software
    • Atria
    • Hastings
    • Purify
    • Acquired
    • Box
    • Corporation
    • Development
    • Form
    • Founded
    • Mark
    • Merged
  • software development
    • Box
    • Founded
    • Mark
    • October
    • Peck
    • Raymond
    • Reed
    • Tools
    • Atria
    • Purify
    • Hastings
    • Pure
  • reed hastings
    • Raymond
    • Reed
    • Tools
    • Pure
    • Acquired
    • Box
    • Mark
    • October
    • Peck
    • Rational
    • Venture
    • Atria
  • atria software
    • Acquired
    • Corporation
    • Form
    • Merged
    • Rational
    • Pure
    • August
    • Atria
    • Purify
    • Software
    • Hastings
    • Memory
  • rational software
    • Atria
    • Purify
    • Purelink
    • Quantify
    • Raymond
    • Venture
    • Acquired
    • Corporation
    • Form
    • Memory
    • Merged
    • Product
  • purify
    • Software
    • Unix
    • Acquired
    • Corporation
    • Form
    • Merged
    • Purelink
    • Quantify
    • Rational
    • Raymond
    • Tool
    • Atria
  • debugging
    • Applications
    • Detection
    • Flagship
    • Leak
    • Unix
    • Memory
    • Product
    • Tool
    • Purify
    • Software

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Pure Software, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Pure Software with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Pure Software — Overview · splits 8 ⟂ 8
Pure Software — History · splits 9 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Pure Software

Nodes16
Edges15
Triples23
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.125
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Pure Software to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Pure Software · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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