That`s what they teach in the business schools nowadays, and that`s the lesson Lotus remembered when it ran up against tough competition from Borland`s admirable new spreadsheet, Quattro Pro.

And that is the position of Borland International Inc., which decided late last month to sell its new Quattro Pro for Windows 5.0 spreadsheet for less than $50. Trapped between not one but two ...

It is optionally keystroke compatible with Lotus 1-2-3. Quattro Pro was originally developed by Borland, then purchased by Novell in 1994 and Corel in 1996. Initially sold as a separate program ...

Novell’s Ray Noorda combined WordPerfect with Borland’s Quattro Pro spreadsheet. Lotus put together a suite of applications, including its Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, combined with its Approach ...

Countless millions of copies of popular spreadsheet programs—including VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, SuperCalc and, later, Microsoft Excel and Borland’s Quattro Pro—were sold during these years ...

In the mid-1990s, Lotus sued Borland, claiming that Borland's Quattro Pro spreadsheet emulated the look and feel of Lotus 1-2-3. Much to the woe of proprietary software vendors, the court decision ...