Dvorak Uncensored » Whatever Happened to Lotus Jazz? — A fascinating tale!

In 1985, one of the great flopperoos in computing history occurred at the hands of then software powerhouse Lotus. By that year, the name Lotus immediately brought to mind spreadsheets, and the computing industry was abuzz with the news that the Mac world was to be overwhelmed by Lotus’ new Mac spreadsheet: Jazz.

Unfortunately, the popularity of Jazz peaked with the pre-announcement hype. From there, it skidded downhill faster than a beginning skier on a black diamond trail, as Lotus made every marketing blunder in the book. As MacUser Magazine said in 1985, “The only problem with Lotus Jazz was Lotus.”