The Stirling Group

A company founded by Viresh Bhatia and Rick Harold in  Schaumburg, Illinois, USA in 1987 to market an Microsoft Windows based geographic mapping software that actually never saw the light of day. But in an attempt to generate cash the company started to productify and sell some of the programming utilities they had developed for their in-house needs.

History
Their first products were shipped in 1990 and by 1991 they five cross-platform programmers utilities and libraries that they called "The Shield Series" and were available in version for both Windows 3 and OS/2 PM 1.x, with each product using the exact same API for both operating systems, thus simplifying the creation of cross-platform Windows and OS/2 applications. The company had a slightly unusual naming scheme with all their products having names ending in all caps "SHIELD", apparently more in the vein of "shielded you from the native API" rather than as reference to defence in any way.

Products

 * DbxShield
 * DemoShield
 * InstallSHIELD
 * LogShield
 * MemShield
 * TbxShield

Personnel

 * Viresh Bhatia
 * Rick Harold