IBM - Software withdrawal and discontinuance of support: Lotus SmartSuite , Lotus Organizer and Lotus 123
Effective on the dates listed below, IBM® will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:
Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement. Customers will no longer be able to receive support for these offerings after September 30, 2014. No service extensions will be offered.
ZDNet - Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3
The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same.
On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done.
...
My first thought was, "Wow, you could still buy 1-2-3?" My second was, "Damn, I'm getting old...". Third, with my ESI/EDD hat one, was, "Oh crap, what about the billions of 1-2-3 files and such files out there. Got to grab a copy of this software and stash it..."
Still this is an end of an era. So long 1-2-3 and thanks for all the cells...
(via OSNews - Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3)
0 comments:
Post a Comment