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I'm a little young to know for sure, but did IBM make any significant software (other than the OS) before the purchase of Lotus? At the time when Excel was anno
by omh 14y ago
I'm a little young to know for sure, but did IBM make any significant software (other than the OS) before the purchase of Lotus?
At the time when Excel was announced they were still running OS/2 as a joint venture with Microsoft.
(Incidentally, IBM does now have an office suite. A quite nice version of OpenOffice: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home)
- agumonkey 14y agoSymphony project is terminated, I think they gave some of it to Apache but I can't find the source anymore.
- nhebb 14y agoThey made DB2 in the early 80's. DB2 has always seemed like the quiet giant in the database world. They even have a free Express edition [1], but I never hear anyone talking about it. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html?S_TACT=wikien&S_CMP=ecddww01 http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.htm...