Mat Newman October 6 2014 15:33:21Last week a fairly significant date passed without much fanfare: The Withdrawal From Support (WFS) for some of the best desktop software ever created in Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Organizer and the Lotus Smartsuite office package. This - of course - followed on from the announcement that these iconic products would be withdrawn from marketing effective the 11th of June, 2013. WFM is the term used to signify that a product will no longer be available for purchase by customers. WFS means that a product will no longer receive any updates, nor will customers be able to request assistance for these products.

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The announcement's were made. Many would already have been aware that - in reality - none of these products had received any significant updates for over a decade, so the announcement made last year was merely a formal indication that their time really was up, and customers using these products should move on.

In the intervening years, IBM had forked it's own version of OpenOffice to create Lotus Symphony, before making a significant donation back to the Apache Foundation of the code behind it. The Side-bar in OpenOffice 4.* is the most visible indicator of IBM's contributions included from the Symphony code-base. Although the retired software products will still work (and will continue to do so as long as the operating systems for which they were designed are still available) it was with a wistful grin that I remembered back to when I first started using PC's, when almost everyone of my vintage at one time was familiar with the '/' (slash) menus from 1-2-3, the spreadsheet that really proved the power of the PC in the workplace and began the PC revolution. Then there was Organizer, the PC based Planner and Contact manager that defined what Personal Information Mangement (PIM) was all about. Over 20 years ago Organizer introduced most of the functionality required for effective personal and group co-ordination, along with tight integration into one's contact list it was possible to do anything, from planning a call, to making a call, and then recording it back into the event.

Even features like 'calendar overlays' and group calendars had their roots back in Organizer, a personal favourite feature of mine was the 'Include' option, that enabled one to see the 'tabs' from any colleague within your own Organizer folio. Interestingly, while opening any of these applications it's clear that anyone familiar with modern desktop software will see that actual functionality available today isn't that far advanced from what we had all those years ago with these leading applications from the Lotus Development Corporation software portfolio. Farewell, old friends, I thank you for your many years of service. 8 James Michael Calderone 0:58:40 A quiet farewell Lotus 1-2-3, Organizer and Smartsuite Hi Mat, just found your site, been enjoying it quite a bit. I was just commenting to someone (might have been myself) about Organizer. In fact, I was trying to remember the name of it!! Regarding Agenda.

There was in fact a ported version of Agenda for windows that never got released. Agenda scared the hell out of me but would love to see if it's held up. I think it was Jim Manzi who killed this product for windows when IBM made its dubious misstep for putting it's eggs in the OS2 basket. Maybe the right technology decision, but certain one that didn't take into account business practices (In case any MS people out there. I still remember what you did to the postscript drivers when printing from 123) Great work Mat! 11 Roger Ellman 21:34:19 A quiet farewell Lotus 1-2-3, Organizer and Smartsuite Agree with the EPIM suggestion. I have been using EPIMpro (paid version) for well over a year and I am happy with it because it has an IOS app which it synchs with.

However only the Calendar, ToDo and Contacts synchs leaving the Notes section out in the cold.a shame. I still have Lotus Organizer installed and backed up for now.I'm always hoping someone will buy it from IBM (I made a first attempt to do so.then decided time was better spent.) and bring it up to cloud/multi-device/synching specification.!! But the only product I've found that could possibly replace the elegance, completeness and usability of Lotus Organizer is EPIM. Try the free version then you can and probably will, upgrade. Sbornik tehnologicheskih kart recepteur blyud kulinarnih izdelij dlya shkoljnogo. 12 D A Schmetterling 0:07:54 A quiet farewell Lotus 1-2-3, Organizer and Smartsuite I am glad I found this forum! I might try EPIM. I am running Organizer 4.2 (!) on Vista and I know it runs on WIn 8.1, though am not sure how well.