The 'killer app' that launched the IBM PC revolution Lotus 1-2-3 is now no longer supported by its current owner IBM.
From this May 14, 2013 Announcement Letter:
Software withdrawal and discontinuance of support: Lotus SmartSuite , Lotus Organizer and Lotus 123
Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement. Customers will no longer be able to receive support for these offerings after September 30, 2014. No service extensions will be offered.
End of an era but it was a good long productive ride. It will be interesting to see if IBM would consider releasing the source code like MSFT did with MS-DOS and WinWord in March of this year.
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