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title: "Lotus Software: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Lotus Development Corporation was an American software company based in Massachusetts. Lotus is best known for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, the first feature-heavy, user-friendly, reliable, and WYSIWYG-enabled product to become available in the early days of the IBM PC."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-lotus-software
type: Organization
wikidata: Q909169
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development
website: http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Lotus Software

> Lotus Development Corporation was an American software company based in Massachusetts. Lotus is best known for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, the first feature-heavy, user-friendly, reliable, and WYSIWYG-enabled product to become available in the early days of the IBM PC.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1982-01-01
- Headquarters: Cambridge
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus
- Also known as: Lotus, Lotus Development Corporation
- Industries: software industry

## Key people

- Jonathan Sachs, founder (American businessman)
- Mitch Kapor, founder (entrepreneur, founder of the Lotus Development Corporation, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation (born 1950))
- Irene Greif (American computer scientist)
- Eric B. Kim (Korean–American businessman)
- Pito Salas (American computer programmer)

## Ownership

Parent: [IBM](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm.md)

## Products

- software

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Lotus Software, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-lotus-software#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q909169, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Development

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