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[Lotus] was one of the major companies that caused the PersonalComputer Revolution. In 1983 they released "Lotus 1-2-3" for the [IBM] [PC], a powerful, easy to use spreadsheet program. Lotus 1-2-3 was predicted to make between $1 -> $2 million dollars in it's first year. Pretty reasonable goals really. However, it made $53 million in the first year, and over $100 million sales over and above that the year after. ''Anyone got any great ideas that they think the computer industry needs? I could do with $250mil in the bank...'' However, being this successful has problems. They caught the attention of the MicrosoftCorporation Juggernaught. In the 1980's it was rumoured that Microsoft's internal policy was that "[DOS] isn't done until [Lotus] doesn't run." if this sounds increadible now, consider at the same time they got caught putting deliberate code in Windows 3.1 that would complain if it ran on a competing [DRDOS] operating system. In 1993 they created Lotus Notes, a program which introduced the concept of "Groupware" to the world. In 1995, [IBM] brought Lotus for $3.5 billion dollars. http://www.lotus.com/ ---- CategoryCompany
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