Whatever Happened to Context MBA?

It’s easy to forget that it was the microcomputer industry that gave birth to the IBM PC and not the reverse. Or that Lotus 1-2-3 didn’t always own the spreadsheet market. A strange line in an old review of Context MBA reminded me of this…

Read the story here.

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  1. Paul Stewart says:

    While not a user of much business software I do like a good story John; and thanks to you we have these stories in your “Whatever happened to… archives” series.

    It is no trite thing. These stories of human business, busy-ness, transaction, interchange and exchange have been recorded for thousands of years. From ancient cuniform on oven baked clay tablets to the present electronic forms encoded with modern versions of baked silica.
    Thanks John.

  2. Joe White says:

    Always liked this package – offered a level of integration still only available using the VBA macro language. A shame they thought the Apple III was going to be a market and hence wrote the thing in USCD p-System (Java Version 0.01). By the time it resurfaced in native code, Lotus 1-2-3 had become the standard.


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