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.

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. Our expertise in Windows system utilities, executable manipulation, and compression algorithms has since become well known throughout the world. In 2002, we released the first version of our second revenue generating product, Process Lasso.

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. Our free JCALG1 lossless data compression algorithm is also utilized for a wide variety of applications, including by AMD and VMWare. However, our most important and plentiful customers are small businesses and home users.

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.

A message from Jeremy

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. 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. 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.

I work hard on my business and software, trying to support my young family. I thank all those who have purchased my software. My liberal licensing doesn't force people to pay to use most of 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. If you truly can not afford a license for my software, email me and we'll work something out. 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

ProcessGovernor is the name of the Process Lasso core engine, but it has NO RELATIONSHIP with a competing utility of the same name. Click here for more information.

Many years ago we operated as Collake Software. We changed our name, and through a mistake lost our old domain name. 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