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Pure Software

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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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

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Pure Software → Atria Software, August, Chief Technical Officer, Hastings, He, In August, Its, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, Netflix, October, Pure Atria, Pure Atria Corporation, PureLink, Purify, Quantify, Rational Software, Revenue, The
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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
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Pure Software → Software development tools
Products · 1
Pure Software → Purify, Quantify, PureLink
Successor · 1
Pure Software → Pure Atria Corporation

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

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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 historyIts0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyPurify0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyThe0.60section
Pure Softwarerelated to historyQuantify0.60section

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