Lotus 25th Anniversary

Lotus 25th Anniversary, originally uploaded by roddh.

This is a set of photographs from the Lotus Development party celebrating 25 years since the company was founded in 1982.

I worked at Lotus from 1988 to 1993, at the height of popularity of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application. During this same time, the product Lotus Notes, the first widely successful network based application, was launched.

Since then, 1-2-3 was eclipsed by Microsoft Excel (and more generally by the Microsoft Office Suite). Lotus Notes, however, found long term success as a groupware/collaboration application, now part of IBM.

There is an excellent history Lotus Notes here.