{"id":14611,"date":"2018-07-06T23:17:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/simple-as-1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:17:30","slug":"simple-as-1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/simple-as-1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2018\/07\/e0367__ibm_lotus_notes-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/e0367__ibm_lotus_notes-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ibm_lotus_notes.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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&#8217;s. Lotus 1-2-3 steadily lost marketshare, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/goodbye-lotus-1-2-3-7000015385\/\" 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<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/06\/1-2-3-ibm-buys-lotus\/\">Simple as 1-2-3: IBM Buys Lotus<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><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":3,"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-14611","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\/14611"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}