Mission statement
Our mission is simply to develop quality, affordable, and innovative software. We want to provide solutions to problems not previously solved. As a small business, we remain closely connected with our users. We want our software to have a personal touch, and want our users to be partners in helping us develop continually better software.
We make these pledges
- We will never bundle our software with any toolbars, browser extensions, or anything else
- We will never place ads in our software
- We will be up front about our licensing
- We will always care more about our software and users than our profits - so long as we can simply survive
- For purchasers, we will provide a 30 day guaranteed refund to anyone not satisified with our software for any reason
History
Bitsum Technologies is a small software development company located in the United States of America. Our company started in 1996 with the first public release of PECompact, our advanced Windows executable compressor. To this day, PECompact continues to have a strong presence in the executable compression market. We have since branched out to other areas, and authored a number of system utilities and other software. One of them, Process Lasso, has risen in user popularity and continues to enjoy a large, loyal user base.
Customers
We have many customers all over the world. Many major corporations have purchased licenses for PECompact and Process Lasso. These include IBM, AMD, Google, Intel, Adobe, HP, Valve Software, Microsoft, and many others. For instance, PECompact is used by Google on Google Desktop's installer. PECompact is also used by HP, Valve software, and MANY more companies. You may very well be using software compressed with PECompact and not even realize it.
Process Lasso is used on lots of Terminal Servers at Porsche and many other companies. Several major corporations have purchased licenses for it. Still, home users vastly out-number commercial users.
Our free JCALG1 lossless data compression algorithm is also utilized for a wide variety of applications, including by AMD and VMWare.
Why we're different
Some companies want to sell you products without any concern about how well their software works, or how bloated their software is. Their software may come with flashier user interfaces, written in high level languages for easy development, but they also come with a much larger footprint (RAM and CPU use). Their strategy is to create software that works just well enough to be sold.
Bitsum Technologies is different. We truly care about the quality of our software and about providing features users want and need. Furthermore, we use our own software every day. We are more interested in developing a quality product that works than we are selling licenses. This may not be best for our business profits, but financial gain is not what we are about. That said, please understand we must make some profit in order to survive. Make no mistake, we are not a charity - we are just not as greedy as some companies. That is the point I am trying to express.
It seems these days capitalism has gone a bit to the extreme. Everything is done with a singular goal, to maximize profits. When other factors do come into consideration, they are only in relation to that goal of maximizing profits. That just bothers me. It leaves a void that is hard for me to explain. It is almsot as if the very 'soul' of business is attacked by profiteers. I completely understand the goal of making ends meet, but I truly believe that if you run a business with integrity, the ends will be met -- if you create a quality product and it is meant to be.
The core of my belief is that a person or business can succeed by creating something of true value in this world. In constrast, all those trying to lie, steal, cheat, or shortcut their way to riches are simply 'lost'. They detract from those who do create value, and hurt consumer confidence in all businesses. The whole idea of 'get rich quick' is just wrong. Create value, solve a problem, and the financial reward will come. It may come slow, and perhaps I'll never be rich. However, that's life.
If you find our software meets your needs, thank you for your support - in any form. Telling a friend about it, or making a feature request or bug report are contributions in and of themselves.
About Bitsum Technologies
Bitsum Technologies is a sole proprietorship operated by me, Jeremy Collake. Although I find it difficult to write about myself, I suppose some personal information is warranted. I've always been passionate about programming, algorithms, and OS fundamentals. I have been developing publicly distributed software since I was a teenager. As I write this, I find myself now in my thirties. I majored in Computer and Information Science at East Tennessee State University, but was a well known programmer long before I went to college. I now have over 20 years of programming experience, releasing my first shareware for the Spitfire BBS when I was a teenager. Through the years I've been the lead developer of several open source (Slashdot reference), freeware, shareware, and commercial software projects (for several companies).
The entire list of all software I've developed, or help develop, is far too long to list here. I can say that my software is currently in use at AMD, IBM, Google, Intel, VMWare, Porshe, and many other large companies.
I've also worked with the well known Steve Gibson on SocketLock (PBS reference) and other utilities. I mention none of this to brag, just to reassure users of my software that they are in capable hands. My expertise is mostly in low-level system utilities and lossless compression, but I'm also proficient in a number of other areas. I primarily code in C, C++, and x86 assembly language, though use several other languages when necessary.
These days I find myself married and starting a new family. Therefore, I work to support my family instead of simply supporting myself. Although supporting my family is the reason I must always work hard, my meager accomplisments are simply because I am passionate about my work. I feel it is important to love what you do, and programming is something that is impossible to do well if you don't enjoy it. I've never been motivated by the desire to 'get rich' -- that just doesn't do it for me. I have always felt that thinking only about revenue generation is the downfall of many software projects. This causes the developers to cut corners, and results in a flashy application more concerned with appearances than actual capabilities. All I want to achieve is the ability to pay my basic bills and the freedom to continue to innovate.
I thank all those who have purchased my software in the past and present. My liberal licensing doesn't always force people to pay to use my software, and I'd like to keep it that way. If, and only if, my software meets your needs, I encourage you to purchase a license. Thank you for your support.
Credits and acknowledgements
Unless otherwise stated, all software, articles, and other content found here was developed by Jeremy Collake.
PECompact has a number of available compression codecs, only one of which is authored by us - JCALG1. PECompact also utilizes LZMA by Igor Pavlov, and aPLib and FFCE by Joergen Ibsen.
Joergen Ibsen was also instrumental in the development of JCALG1, helping to provide wisdom and ideas from his excellent aPLib compression algorithm. JCALG1 is basically an open-source implementation of aPLib with a few changes and additions (i.e. block verbatim support to better handle pre-compressed data).
Some Process Lasso artwork was done by Nicolas Nguyen.
Our web site CSS theme is derived from the work of James Taylor.
Our software is developed primarily in C++ and x86-32 assembly language (i.e. JCALG1 and the PECompact loaders).
Trademark infringement and domain name notes
Many, many years ago we operated as Collake Software. We changed our name, and later through a mistake lost our old domain name (its a long story). A squatter now resides there, trying to fool users into thinking that we still operate there. Click here for more information.
Bitsum Technologies
PO BOX 1143
Talbott, TN 37877-1143 USA
Email: support@bitsum.com
FAX: 866-820-7423
