Lotus was one of the most successful start-ups ever under the visionary Mitch Kapor. Lotus came from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a te

Lotus was one of the most successful start-ups ever under the visionary Mitch Kapor. Lotus came from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor Mitch started all the projects that kept the company afloat for 15 years. My favorites were: Notes, Magellan, Agenda, and Improv and internally used Orion (search tool). Jim Manzi the Mckinsey consultant who took over from him successful acquired and killed about 10 good companies (Approach, cc:Mail, Amipro). Lotus Notes was a very good workflow development tool that forced to support email to sell more copies. Most large companies still don't have cultures that support open sharing of information and use email as the defacto workflow tool. Check out http://www.lotusmuseum.com/ http://www.lotusmuseum.com/