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Wiktionary, the free dictionary.China
Lotus kick, foot sweep in T'ai Chi Ch'uan
Lotus seed, in Chinese medicine
Lotus Sutra, of the Sublime Dharma
Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala, or Eight Auspicious Symbols
Nelumbo nucifera, the blue lotus, the sacred lotus or the Indian lotus
Padma (attribute), the sacred lotus
in culture (western):
Lotus, album by Italian singer Elisa
Lotus, song by Minus the Bear
Lotus (album), live album by the band Santana
Lotus (board game), abstract strategy board game
Lotus (band), band in Hong Kong
Lotus (guitar), former guitar manufacturer
Lotus (song), song by R.Lotus Sametime, instant messaging program
Lotus Software, software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Team Lotus, Formula 1 constructor related to Lotus Cars
Tesco Lotus, chain of Thai hypermarket stores
in geography:
Lotus, Florida, area in Brevard County, USA
Vancouver, nickname Lotus Land
in maritime
S.Lotus and the S.This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.This page was last modified 15:53, 9 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Thanks to Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, it also developed one of the more powerful groupware systems, Lotus Notes.Early History
2 Dominance
3 Diversification
4 Look and Feel
5 Rumors
6 Corporate culture
6.Early History
Lotus was founded in 1982 by partners Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs with backing from Ben Rosen.Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System.Mitch founded Lotus after working as head of development at VisiCorp (the marketers of VisiCalc) and selling the rights to his products; VisiPlot and VisiTrend to VisiCorp.Shortly after Kapor left VisiCorp, he and Sachs produced an integrated spreadsheet and graphing program.Even though IBM and VisiCorp collaborated on VisiCalc for the PC and VisiCalc shipped simultaneously with the PC, Lotus had a superior product.The name referred to the three ways the product could be used, as a spreadsheet, graphics package, and database manager.Sales were huge, turning Lotus into the largest independent software vendor in the world almost overnight.In 1982 Jim Manzi came to Lotus as a management consultant, and became an employee four months later.In October 1984 he was named President, and in April 1986 he was named as CEO, succeeding Mitch Kapor who had become inactive in the company.Manzi would remain at the head of Lotus until 1995.Dominance
As the popularity of the personal computer grew, Lotus quickly came to dominate the spreadsheet market.Lotus introduced other office products such as Ray Ozzie's Symphony in 1984 and the Jazz office suite for the Apple Macintosh computer in 1985.Jazz did very poorly in the market.Also in 1985, Lotus bought Software Arts and discontinued the latter company's VisiCalc program.In the late 1980s, Lotus developed Lotus Magellan, a file management and indexing utility.This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager (PIM), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package for the NeXT platform.Improv also flopped, and none of these products made a significant impact on the market.Diversification
In the 1990s, to compete with Microsoft's Windows applications, Lotus had to buy in products such as Freelance Graphics, Ami Pro (word processor), Approach (database), and Threadz, which became Lotus Organizer.Freelance Graphics, Ami Pro, Approach, and Lotus Organizer) were bundled together under the name Lotus SmartSuite.Although SmartSuite was bundled cheaply with many PCs and may initially have been more popular than Microsoft Office, Lotus quickly lost its dominance in the desktop applications market with the transition to 32 bit applications running on Windows 95.Lotus was late in delivering its suite of 32 bit products and failed to capitalize on the transition to the new version of Windows.It now has very little market share.Lotus began its diversification from the desktop software business with its 1984 strategic founding investment in Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, the creator of its Lotus Notes groupware platform.PC world had even started thinking about networked computing or the Internet.Lotus initially brought Notes to market in 1989, and later reinforced its market presence with the acquisition of cc:Mail in 1991.In 1994, Lotus acquired Iris Associates.Look and Feel
Lotus was involved in a number of lawsuits, of which the most significant were the "look and feel" cases which started in 1987.VP Planner and Twin, and sued Borland over its Quattro spreadsheet.This led Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, to found the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) and hold protests outside Lotus Development offices.The LPF filed an amicus curiae brief in the Borland case.Lotus in July 1995.On October 11, 1995 Manzi announced his resignation from Lotus (by then known as the Lotus Development division of IBM).Prior to that year, Lotus had been restricted from exporting software that used encryption keys that were longer than 40 bits by United States law.Under an agreement with the US government, Lotus was allowed to start exporting 64 bit keys, so long as 24 bits of each key were recoverable using a special key issued by Lotus to the NSA.The result was that the newer version of Lotus Notes provided stronger protection against industrial espionage than any previous version had been allowed to provide, and it provided no less protection against decryption by the NSA than the previous versions had given.US export regulations were changed in 2001, so current versions of Lotus products are able to use longer keys and they no longer provide NSA with access to any key bits.Following in founder Mitch Kapor's footsteps, Lotus has always had a reputation as a progressive company.Lotus's first employee was Janet Axelrod who created not only the Human Resources organization but was the central figure in creating the much respected Lotus culture.As she continued to build her organization and play a central role with the senior management, she eventually hired Freada Klein as the first Director of Employee Relations to help with her emphasis on ensuring a fair workplace.In 1986, Lotus was the first major company to support an AIDS walk.In 1990, Lotus opened a daycare center for the children of its employees.In 1998, Lotus was named one of the Top 10 best companies to work for working mothers by Working Mother magazine.In 1995, Lotus had over 4,000 employees worldwide and IBM's acquisition of Lotus was greeted with apprehension by many Lotus employees, who feared that the corporate culture of "Big Blue" would smother their creativity.However, by the year 2000, the inevitable assimilation of Lotus was almost complete.Lotus employees did complain about the transition to IBM's culture (IBM's employee benefits programs, in particular, were singled out as inferior to Lotus's very progressive programs).Lotus's headquarters in Cambridge used to be divided into two buildings, the Lotus Development Building (LDB) (on the banks of the Charles River) and the Rogers Street building, located adjacent to the CambridgeSide Galleria.However, in 2001, then President and General Manager, Al Zollar decided not to renew the lease of LDB.The subsequent migration of employees across the street (and into home offices) generally coincided with what was probably the final exodus of employees from the company.The integration of Lotus into IBM continues.Today, it is a software brand in IBM's Software Group.Within Lotus, there is still a strong sense of unity.Many former Lotus employees, though they have moved into and embraced IBM, still identify with Lotus and see themselves as part of the Lotus community.Origins
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'.There also was (circa 1995) the assertion by one Lotus cc: Mail employee that "Quattro Pro" was taken from the Spanish word "cuatro", or number four.September 2007), IBM takes fight to Microsoft with Lotus Symphony, Techworld.See Copyrights for details.What is the LOTUS?The Light Of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS) is a unique temple dedicated to interfaith understanding and the Light within all faiths.The vision, design and inspiration of Sri Swami Satchidananda, the LOTUS was dedicated in 1986.Virginia, the doors of the LOTUS are open to welcome people of all faiths.Renowned architect Robert Venturi comments on the architecture of the LOTUS.The LOTUS renovations are nearly complete.While some repairs and final painting will continue through the next few months, the LOTUS is generally open during the regular hours posted.Through the generosity of Satish and Veenu Daryanani, the paving of the LOTUS road and the extensive renovations are restoring the LOTUS complex to its original beauty.Welcome to the official LOTUS website.LOTUS, a pioneer in the interfaith movement (see Founder).Every human being under the sun is graciously welcome at the LOTUS.The LOTUS celebrates the unity of all faiths, the many paths but one God.LOTUS stands as a living monument to the interfaith ideals.LOTUS which promotes understanding among all people and among all religions.May we all come to the path of unity that will allow us to overcome the enemy of separation that is now trying to destroy all of the earth.Oneness of God and Light and gives everybody unity in diversity.LOTUS is a visual testimony to interfaith understanding and stands as a beacon of Truth and Peace.But, the real purpose of any religion is to educate us about our spiritual unity.The basic cause for all the world problems is the lack of understanding of our spiritual unity.The need of the hour is to know, respect, love one another and to live as one global family.Our humble aim in building the LOTUS is to spread this message.What we offerApplication design and developmentIncrease user productivity and business flexibility with custom solutions for Lotus software.Mobile and wirelessExtend enterprise business processes, applications and information to mobile and wireless devices and clients.Social softwareGather and exchange information through professional networks and build communities of experts to help execute tasks faster.Easy to install, fast to deploy products for small and medium businesses.New
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Related linksEmpower your people.Help them work together, better.How is Lotus Symphony different?Switching to Lotus Symphony is easy.Office applications, which means you get even more from your current investments.Lotus Symphony at no charge.Tues, 22, Jan 2008 from 8:30 a.Tues, 22, Jan 2008 from 1:30 p.Lotusphere 2008 will be held in Orlando Florida at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort the week of January 20th.Detailed Description:
These presentations were presented at Lotusphere 2001.Resources
You can find the Lotus XML Toolkit at the Lotus Developer Network.To learn more about DXL or to download additional DXL tools, visit the DXL Resources page on Notes.XML page on the Lotus Developer Network.To learn more about XML in general, visit the W3C XML site, or the IBM XML Zone.We look forward to hearing from you!Lotus has it in PDF, much nicer.Lotus has been completely redesigned to an online record shop.Please bear with us while we peform some final tests.Thank you for dropping by and and visit us very soon. |
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