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Re:History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (1987) by omh on Monday September 17, 2012 @04:45AM (#4531723)
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)

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Re:History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (1987) by nhebb on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:06AM (#4531874)
They 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.htm...

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Re:History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (1987) by agumonkey on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:49AM (#4531845)
Symphony project is terminated, I think they gave some of it to Apache but I can't find the source anymore.
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