Western Wares' Background

Western Wares is a software manufacturing firm founded in 1981. The company's primary focus is to produce sophisticated tools for maintenance and development teams.

Although Western Wares has offered a variety of software tools during our 15 years of manufacturing, our criteria for each product has remained consistent, that is to provide unique programming tools that increase productivity and work with a wide range of other tools.

Established Company
Western Wares has been producing tools for programmers since the early days of the microcomputer when CP/M was the dominant operating system. Rick Hollinbeck, the president of Western Wares, developed one of the first microcomputer based language tools in 1974 and has over 30 years experience developing quality software for a wide variety of platforms.

Superior Support
Customer satisfaction is very important to us, and we pride ourselves on providing a high level of user support to help people gain the most productivity from our tools.

Technical Excellence
We emphasize highly evolved tools which provide customers with detail, accuracy, crucial performance on projects large or small, open architecture, knowledgeable tech support, and an intuitive user interface for quick start-up. In large project development, there are always areas where progress deteriorates. Our goal has been to develop tools to bridge that gap.

Our management and product development team perceived two primary areas where extensive amounts of time are lost. Communication among the project members can be a major problem. Meetings are helpful, but tools which facilitate information exchange are essential. Another obstacle can be a limited view of the overall project causing difficulties when the separate groups interface their components.

Perceiving a need for products which would prevent this quagmire, our tools facilitate a quick overall comprehension of a project and also enhance communication among the team members. Communication is improved by generating automatic in-house documentation, while overall project comprehension is promoted with various visual synopsis of the source code. A detailed visualization of a product clarifies future development, accelerates maintenance and brings new team members up-to-speed quickly. The old adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" has never been truer.

Open architecture is an innovative feature all our products embrace. Many programmers utilize favorite editors or third party libraries which increase their productivity. By creating a tool which "rides along" with existing tools, Western Wares adds power and performance to your development team. Also many companies compile with several C or C++ compilers to verify which output is currently the best. If your tools are compiler bound, the flexibility and performance of your product is limited. Through open architecture we offer you incredible value in the many spheres of maintenance and development.

There are always numerous tools which give you only part of what you need. With our product line we emphasize sophistication, accuracy, and detail while providing an intuitive user interface. Yes, but how about when you have questions. Knowledgeable tech support with a quick response is also an essential part of our customer relations. Through the Internet, we offer up to date information and incremental improvements as well as assistance with the product. Phone, fax, email, CompuServe and the Internet provide easy access to technical support.

Our current products emphasize efficiency and productivity for large C, C++ and Java projects. With the introduction of CC-RIDER, Western Wares offers Browsing, Analysis, Editing and automatic source code Documentation to all C/C++/Java developers.