{"id":11633,"date":"2014-07-06T23:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T23:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/simple-as-1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T23:16:42","slug":"simple-as-1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/simple-as-1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1781\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<div class=\"bottomcontainerBox c7\">\n<div class=\"c6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fpinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fcreate%2Fbutton%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252F07%252F06%252F1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus%252F%26amp%3Bmedia%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F07%252Fibm_lotus_notes-300x225.jpg\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\" rel=\"lightbox[1781]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/a5baf__pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1782\" title=\"IBM Lotus\" alt=\"IBM Lotus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/88cdd__ibm_lotus_notes-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>July 6, 1995<\/p>\n<p>IBM completes a $  3.5 billion buyout of Lotus Development, the producer of the once-dominant Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software and the then-popular Lotus Notes groupware. IBM had hoped to leverage Lotus 1-2-3 to challenge the increasingly demanded Microsoft Excel software, but alas, there was little slowing down the Microsoft juggernaut during the 1990\u2032s. Lotus 1-2-3 steadily lost marketshare, and <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Fgoodbye-lotus-1-2-3-7000015385%2F\" target=\"_blank\">IBM finally announced the end of support for the software in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus Notes groupware faired little better than 1-2-3, succumbing to Microsoft Exchange as the dominant groupware platform among large companies, but it is still entrenched among certain corporations today under the name IBM notes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottomcontainerBox c7\">\n<div class=\"c6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fpinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fcreate%2Fbutton%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252F07%252F06%252F1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus%252F%26amp%3Bmedia%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2012%252F07%252Fibm_lotus_notes-300x225.jpg\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\" rel=\"lightbox[1781]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/a5baf__pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/88cdd__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/06\/1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 6, 1995 IBM completes a $ 3.5 billion buyout of Lotus Development, the producer of the once-dominant Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software and the then-popular Lotus Notes groupware. IBM had hoped to leverage Lotus 1-2-3 to challenge the increasingly demanded Microsoft Excel software, but alas, there was little slowing down the Microsoft juggernaut during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[414,3728,1698],"class_list":["post-11633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-buys","tag-lotus","tag-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}