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- IT Solutions
- Tracy Kugelman
- 1.617.787.1002
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- http://www.its.com/
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- IT SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF CRASHCATCHER 2
- Announces New Pricing
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- June 9, 1995 - Chicago, IL - Today, IT Solutions announced that it
- has shipped a final beta release of CrashCatcher 2, a non-intrusive
- runtime utility for Objective-C debugging. IT Solutions has
- purchased CrashCatcher from WhiteLight Systems and has spent
- considerable time upgrading the product. In addition, we are
- releasing an early beta of a companion product called SymbolDecoder.
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- CrashCatcher 2 provides developers with detailed diagnostic
- information that enables developers to improve the quality of their
- applications. Developers link CrashCatcher into their application
- and may use it with gdb. Then, when the application ships,
- CrashCatcher ships with it. In the event of a crash or exception
- in the user's hands, CrashCatcher automatically sends an e-mail
- message back to the developer (or system administrator). No user
- intervention is necessary. CrashCatcher provides debugging
- information that is impractical to obtain with gdb.
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- "CrashCatcher 2 was purchased by IT Solutions to provide a valuable
- tool to programmers, with functionality not available on any other
- development platform. Since IT Solutions' developers have used and
- benefited from the first version of CrashCatcher, we knew that
- developers and by extension end users would benefit from this new
- release," said Ted Shelton, President and CEO of IT Solutions.
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- New features included in this version are:
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- - C and C++ diagnostic reporting (using SymbolDecoder)
- - Crash avoidance and recovery
- - Compatibility with NeXT's Enterprise Objects and the Foundation Kit
- - Support for NEXTSTEP on HP and SPARC architectures
- - Error handling controllable on a per-error basis
- - Non-fatal error reporting with controllable priority levels
- - Mach exception handling
- - Zone memory checking
- - Improved interaction with debuggers
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- CrashCatcher is especially valuable in debugging errors in software
- that is in the hands of end-users. End-users often cannot reproduce
- or describe the specific events leading up to the errors. CrashCatcher
- helps developers create a closed loop quality cycle with their
- end-users.
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- The cost of CrashCatcher 2 and the companion SymbolDecoder is $495.
- An additional $80 annual maintenance fee for each license entitles
- users to email support and free upgrades. CrashCatcher 2 runs on
- NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher for Motorola, Intel, HP. A version of
- CrashcCatcher2 is still being tested on the SPARC platform. A
- CrashCatcher Evaluation Kit is available. It includes source code
- to a demonstration application which is full of insidious bugs, a
- fully-functional time-limited library, and complete documentation.
- The Evaluation Kit is available via email at no charge or by mail
- for $19.95 prepaid.
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- IT Solutions, headquartered at 500 West Madison St., Suite 2210,
- Chicago, Illinois 60661, was founded in 1990 as a software development
- and consulting firm specializing in object technology. IT Solutions
- specializes in object oriented systems including database connectivity
- and application design, web services and Internet application
- development tools for strategic technology and messaging infrastructures
- for clients throughout the United States. IT Solutions has offices
- in Boston and San Francisco in addition to our Chicago office.
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- CrashCatcher, CrashCatcher2 and SymbolDecoder are trademarks of WhiteLight
- Systems and licensed by Information Technology Solutions. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and
- OpenStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer Inc. All
- other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.