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	Lotus Improv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lotus Improv was a spreadsheet program from Lotus Development that attempted to re-define the way a spreadsheet should work.
		The project to develop Improv for NeXT was code-named BackBay (the name of a neighborhood in Boston.) One of the initial tasks was to see if they could simplify the task of setting up a spreadsheet.
		Improv was so popular that it became one of the few killer apps on the NeXT platform, and machines started showing up in financial officies in the thousands.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lotus_Improv (1030 words)

	Lotus Software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lotus' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System, but the company is more broadly known for its groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application released in January 1983.
		Lotus initially brought Notes to market in 1989, and later reinforced its market presence with the acquisition of cc:Mail in 1991.
		Lotus, which employs over 4,000 employees worldwide, was acquired by IBM in July 1995 for 3.5 billion dollars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lotus_Software (903 words)

	Lotus Improv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lotus Improv was a spreadsheet program from Lotus Development that attempted to re-define the way a spreadsheetshould work.
		Lotus set up an advanced technology group in 1986, and one of their tasks was to see if they could simplify the task ofsetting up a spreadsheet.
		Improv was so popular that it became one of the few killer apps on the NeXTplatform, and machines started showing up in financial officies in the thousands.
	www.therfcc.org /lotus-improv-123916.html (884 words)

	Lotus Improv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The original spreadsheet, VisiCalc, was based on the idea of replicating existing mechanical spreadsheets (specifically, a sheet of paper with lines on it) on the computer and then adding automatic updating.
		Lotus set up an advanced technology group in 1986, and one of their tasks was to see if they could simplify the task of setting up a spreadsheet.
		People were so used to the way spreadsheets worked, lousy as it might be, that no one actually used it.
	wikipedia.lotsofinformation.com /wiki/index.php/Lotus_Improv (935 words)

	Spreadsheets - numbers into nursing does go! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lotus 1-2-3 was the seminal IBM PC application, the spreadsheet that still dominates the desktops of the world.
		Lotus typically sat on their laurels for too long and failed to appreciate that simply loading an application with hundreds of functions cannot replace improvements in usability through better interfaces.
		Lotus 1-2-3, Excel et al all use a grid of rows and columns which are fixed.
	www.bcsnsg.org.uk /itin06/rundell1.htm (1568 words)

	Improv for Windows 2.1
		By using Improv to create different views of the same data and to place charts created from the data as views, users can actually create a sort of slide show with their data.
		Improv's paging feature is not just interesting; it's also an invaluable timesaver if you need to make a presentation that requires specific data to be highlighted for one group and other data to be highlighted for another.
		Improv is also self-documenting: The formulas are placed in another pane on the screen in words.
	www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue160/100_Improv_for_Windows_2.php (1226 words)

	Moose's Software Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lotus Corporation are no stranger to spreadsheets, having produced the first killer spreadsheet for the IBM-PC, Lotus 1-2-3 - a product that went on to sell 10's of millions of copies around the world, and made Lotus billions of dollars in profit.
		Lotus Script was a powerful language, and I used it and Lotus Dialog Editor, during 1993 to develop dozens of dialogs and write 10,000 or so lines of Lotus Script code for a serious multi-hyper cube data wharehouse system developed for an electricity company.
		Included with Improv was excellent on-line help with lots of examples, a lot of example worksheets, an entertaining and imaginitive on-line tour (tutorial) of Improv that gave you everything you need to get started and more, and a great set of manuals that explained the basics very clearly.
	infocom.cqu.edu.au /Staff/Michael_O_malley/web/mooses_review_page_lotus_improv.html (4309 words)

	Lotus Improv
		Ten years ago last month Lotus Improv was cancelled.
		Improv was the reason I joined Lotus in the first place.
		Improv 3.0 had a lot of new features and was on a 32-bit platform again.
	www.bobcongdon.net /blog/2004/09/lotus-improv.html (191 words)

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		After the talk, Lotus' top management did a private show-and-tell for Steve of their most interesting products that were under development.
		When Improv detected a conflict, it invalidated both formulas and complained to the user: sometimes, formulas were not very nice.
		Lotus has set up a ``hotline you can call to drop a flame on the Improv development team,'' says Jeff, something that is very unusual for Lotus.
	www.simson.net /clips/1991/91.NW.Improv.html (2904 words)

	Windows spreadsheet software
		Lotus 1-2-3 Release 4.01 for Windows is a fine spreadsheet, suitable for users at all levels.
		Lotus is once again in the forefront of spreadsheet technology in the new world of Windows.
		Improv includes Lotus Chart, a graphing utility similar to that in 1-2-3, as well as Lotus Script, a macro language that is also used in other Lotus Windows products.
	www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue166/18_Windows_spreadsheet_.php (5875 words)

	Why Good Ideas Fail
		The problem is not specific to any particular software domain; BeOS, and Lotus Improv were both great products but seem to have nothing in common apart from being good ideas that failed.
		Lotus Improv introduced a radical spreadsheet metaphor, and although BeOS was not as revolutionary it too brought plenty of good ideas with it.
		For instance, Lotus 123 was the first good spreadsheet available on the PC and it became an instant hit, but MS Excel took a long time to displace Lotus 123, even though it was a superior product.
	www.techuser.net /index.php?id=42 (1137 words)

	Swap File Error When Installing Lotus Improv 2.0
		When you install Lotus Improv version 2.0 in Windows NT, you may receive an error message indicating that the permanent swap file was not found or is not large enough.
		According to Lotus technical support, if you have 32 megabytes (MB) of RAM, for example, the swap file would need to be 64 MB in order to avoid this warning.
		Improv is manufactured by Lotus Development Corp., a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this products' performance or reliability.
	support.microsoft.com /default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;105248&Product=WIN2000 (382 words)

	Lotus 1 2 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of International Business Machines).
		Lotus 1-2-3 came with a separate program to print graphs and charts, but this could not then be run at the same time as the spreadsheet.
		Lotus 1-2-3 has been the subject of several user interface copyright court cases in the US.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Spreadsheets/Lotus-1-2-3.html (340 words)

	Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog
		If you've been a student in Brighton the chances are you've worked at Amex at some point (their European processing centre is in the centre of the city) and I worked in the part of the organisation that settled up with retailers.
		Lotus Improv was a new spreadsheet application by the makers of Lotus 1-2-3, and was billed as being a revolutionary rethink of how spreadsheets should work.
		Although Improv originated on the NeXT platform, the version I used was ported to Windows 3.1 back in 1993 and it sold for around £100, for which you got a desktop OLAP server, a pretty capable spreadsheet and what was considered to be a powerful scripting language.
	www.rittman.net (2151 words)

	Attached > Computer history > “Lotus, Move Forward or Die!”
		Lotus 1-2-3 is the Apple II of software, and it’s about time that Lotus faced the fact.
		Lotus’s future is in the technologies developed by its in-house coders of Improv, the dynamic and fresh model for the new century’s spreadsheets.
		Lotus was the king of spreadsheets, and was rightly the leader, as it dominated the entire market.
	www.aresluna.org /attached/computerhistory/articles/spreadsheets/lotusmoveforward (657 words)

	O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Open Source and the Obligation to Recycle
		Three years ago, Simson Garfinkel wrote an article for the Boston Globe called Copyrights and Wrongs about his frustration that Lotus Improv, a revolutionary spreadsheet developed for the NeXT, was no longer sold or supported by Lotus, even though it had been ported to Windows in 1993.
		Improv is protected by copyright, and even though Lotus no longer sells or supports the product, that protection still holds.
		If a company reneges on its side of the bargain - and in the case of Improv, Lotus surely has - the works protected by copyright should become public property.
	www.oreillynet.com /lpt/wlg/968 (937 words)

	Computing Canada: Lotus: taking notes on the first decade: introducing the first 'killer' PC application: Lotus 1-2-3 - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lotus 1-2-3, an integrated spreadsheet, database and graphics program, is announced six months later.
		Lotus scoops up the rights to Allways, The Spreadsheet Publisher from Funk Software Inc., and a minority interest in database developer Sybase, Inc. Lotus agrees to manufacture and distribute Lotus software on ROM cards for the NEC UltraLite notebook and Poqet Computer Corp.'s tiny Poqet PCs.
		Lotus acquires cc:Mail Inc., developer of an electronic mail package that today owns more than one-third of its market, with some 2 million copies installed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0CGC/is_n12_v18/ai_12364451 (1269 words)

	About Me
		Improv was very cool but it was difficult for one company to market two very different spreadsheet products.
		Improv 3.0 was cancelled before it made it to Beta (August '94).
		Lotus decided to use it as the product name (as was done with Notes -- also originally a code name).
	www.bobcongdon.net /blog/2001/04/about-me.html (351 words)

	Lotus Symphony
		Lotus Symphony was a follow-on to Lotus Development's hugely popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3.
		In the 1980s truly integrated products such as AppleWorks started to become popular, and so Lotus tried their hand.
		As such, it is perhaps not surprising that the program, while somewhat popular, never managed to gather a truly large user base.
	www.kiwipedia.com /lotus-symphony.html (269 words)

	interfaceNOW.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A problem with traditional spreadsheets, whether Excel, Lotus 123 or others, is that they are constrained by two dimensions.
		The pioneer in this area was Lotus, which had released a product called Lotus Improv in the 1990s.
		Lotus retrenched itself to focus on Lotus 123, ultimately lost the “spreadsheet war,” as Murray refers to it, and Improv faded into relative obscurity.
	www.interfacenow.com /syndicatepro/displayarticle.asp?ArticleID=1174 (1024 words)

	Free the Code!
		It shouldn't hurt sales because DOS is declining by the minute, and this is a good way to end the slide and turn support over to user groups that will work on the code.
		The fact is that older machines are still being used in developing countries, and the new benefits derived from an improved DOS would encourage people to eventually upgrade with a positive attitude rather than feel they've been let down by Microsoft.
		Lotus should also do the same with its oddball Agenda program, which seems to have disappeared.
	www.vern.com /vern/freethecode.html (744 words)

	Jeff Anderholm - Where are you today?
		Anderholm joined Lotus in March 1984 and figures to be approximately the 250th employee.
		However, the Modeler team, led by Pito Salas, was working on an exciting multidimensional spreadsheet that became Lotus Improv, a product that caused incredible excitement among industry analysts and the PC press.
		Friends and former Lotus colleagues can sign up for an email newsletter, allowing them to stay abreast of the inn’s progress and also be informed of special introductory offers.
	www.axle.org /spotlight/JeffAnderholm.html (810 words)

	Some stuff I just figured out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We were creating a product and service called Lotus Notes:Newsstand, providing an end-to-end solution for electronic publishing, including production, distribution, subscription management, viewing and searching of on-line publications.
		This was part of the Lotus Notes V4 effort: I spent time with customers, built a Visual Basic prototype, and conducted usability tests, to define and get the new functionality implemented.
		The innovative aspects of Improv were: (1) English Language Formulas, leading to great productivity in creating spreadsheets (2) Flexible Views, allowing spreadsheet layout to be changed on the fly.
	www.salas.com /work/resume.htm (990 words)

	Barry Talks! : Common Sense for Uncommon Times
		Our old pal Pito (via Peter) reminisces about Lotus Improv, that amazingly innovative n-dimensional spreadsheet from the early 90's, which he invented.
		In the end it didn't go anywhere, probably because in setting out to improve on spreadsheets, Improv lost the essence of a spreadsheet and in doing so lost the market.
		It was not a failure of vision that killed Improv -- Lotus could not figure out (and in fairness this was hard) how to market two very different types of spreadsheet programs, the very remarkable Improv and the mature, traditional 1-2-3.
	www.edithere.com /barry/2004/11/30 (205 words)

	IBM Research \| Watson \| Cambridge \| People \| Bob Stachel
		Bob Stachel is a software developer in the Collaborative User Experience Research Group, where his current interests include scheduling for communities of volunteers and blending synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.
		Since joining Lotus Research in 1998 as a Senior Architect, Bob has worked on projects in support of lightweight collaboration, expertise location, and knowledge management.
		Before coming to Lotus in 1985, Bob developed hypertextual online Help systems for the Macintosh, worked on mainframe database applications, and wrote an interpreter for the educational programming language Logo.
	domino.research.ibm.com /cambridge/research.nsf/d264349c5aa79915852563bf004e1207/61f6c6830726b08c852566f100022567?OpenDocument (108 words)

	Linux Spreadsheets
		The straight facts are pretty accurate; I'll just take a bit of issue with a couple points that represent "editorial opinion" that we can probably agree to disagree over...
		was a rather complex-to-use test platform for improved "modelling" whose functionality included database extraction.
		Improving robustness, as good database systems support transactional updates, and generally don't crash very much.
	linuxfinances.info /info/spreadsheets.html (4096 words)

	Why Good Ideas Fail
		Excel would have taken even longer to displace Lotus 123 if Windows 3.0 had not come along.
		Lotus and Be both blundered by not allowing their products sufficient time on the market.
		Quantrix tour for an overview of Lotus Improv ideas) to the Windows market.
	www.techuser.net /goodideas1.html (1137 words)

	BYTE.com
		Lotus Improv, originally covered in this review, was discontinued by Lotus Development.
		Lotus 1-2-3 release 5 for Windows now has some dynamic-viewing capabilities but only when combined with Lotus Approach.
		Modeling spreadsheets, such as Lotus Improv, specialize in creating a model to determine how different variables (e.g., sales forecasts or inventory levels) will affect outcomes (e.g., profits).
	www.byte.com /art/9411/sec10/art10.htm (1984 words)

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