both inside and outside the company. Once the Board loses
that vision of the future, your problems magnify.
Luckily the numbers started to get better and people started
to get more comfortable with an investment that is closing
in on $500 million.
Hey, I never said that repositioning was simple or inexpen-
sive. But as Fortune magazine reported: “In groupware, Lotus
Development rules. Its product, Lotus Notes, is fast becoming
for computer networks what Lotus 1-2-3 was for PCs.”
It looks like Jim Manzi’s vision is about to pay off. As this
book goes to press, IBM just agreed to pay $3.5 billion for
Lotus. Big Blue must see groupware as a big winner.
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