Intel, Lotus Development and Carnegie Mellon University are among many organizations reported to form policies specifically disallowing Doom-playing during work hours.

The Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitchell Kapor, a friend of the developers of VisiCalc.

Mitchell David Kapor ( born 1 November 1950 ) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3.

Kapor founded Lotus Development Corporation in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation, and created Lotus 1-2-3.

Lotus Improv was a spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3. 1 in 1993.

Development was put on hiatus in 1994 after slow sales on the Windows platform, and officially ended in 1996 after Lotus was purchased by IBM.

It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3 and was produced from 1984-1992.

Lotus Software ( called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM ) is a software company with headquarters in Westford, Massachusetts.

This led Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, to found the League for Programming Freedom ( LPF ) and hold protests outside Lotus Development offices.

On October 11, 1995 Manzi announced his resignation from Lotus ( by then known as the Lotus Development division of IBM ).

Gradually, the Lotus. com web site changed the " About us " section of its web site to eliminate references to " Lotus Development Corporation ".

The Lotus. com web page in 2001 clearly showed the company as " Lotus Development Corporation " with " a word from its CEO " by 2002 the " About us " section was removed from its site menu, and the Lotus logo was replaced with the IBM logo.

Lotus's headquarters in Cambridge used to be divided into two buildings, the Lotus Development Building ( LDB ) ( on the banks of the Charles River ) and the Rogers Street building, located adjacent to the CambridgeSide Galleria.

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By the mid-1980s, Ashton-Tate was one of the " big three " software publishers in the early business software market, the other two being Lotus Development and Wordperfect.

Borland, under Kahn's leadership took a position of principle and announced that they would defend against Lotus ' legal position and " fight for programmer's rights ".

Twenty-six years earlier Graham Hill had won in Spain under similar circumstances for Lotus after the death of his team-mate Jim Clark.

Several of these ( 1-2-3, Freelance Graphics, Ami Pro, Approach, and Lotus Organizer ) were bundled together under the name Lotus SmartSuite.

While IBM allowed Lotus to develop, market and sell its products under its own brand name, a restructuring in January 2001 brought it more in line with its parent company, IBM.

Tips under the title, The Champa Kingdom: The History of an Extinct Vietnamese Culture, Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2002.

Classic Team Lotus continues to maintain Lotus F1 cars and run them in the FIA Historic Formula One Championship and it preserves the Team Lotus archive and Works Collection of cars, under the management of Colin Chapman ’ s son, Clive.

The replacement for the Lotus Elise is due in 2015 with a 2. 0-litre inline 4 pressure-charged engine delivering up to, the Elise 2015 is stated to be capable of 0 – 100 km / h in under 4. 5 seconds.

In the mid-14th century, Muang Phuan was incorporated into the Lane Xang Kingdom under King Fa Ngum .< ref >< Martin Stuart-Fox The Lao Kingdom of Lao Xang: Rise and Decline, White Lotus Press, 1998 </ ref >

At the Paris Motor Show in September 2010 Lotus Cars unveiled five new models due to go on sale by 2016, alongside plans for an investment of £ 770 million over 10 years, the complete redevelopment of its Hethel factory and an increase in production from under 3, 000 cars per year to 6, 000 to 7, 000.

Apple as one of the OpenDoc consortium ( which included Adobe, Lotus, and others ) touted OpenDoc as the future foundation for application structure under Mac OS.

In August 1351, he worked with others in Qízhōu ( 蘄州 ) to establish the rebel army of Red Turbans under the pretense of the Buddhist White Lotus Society.

In the mid-14th century, Muang Phuan was incorporated into the Lan Xang Kingdom under King Fa Ngum .< ref >< Martin Stuart-Fox The Lao Kingdom of Lao Xang: Rise and Decline, White Lotus Press, 1998 </ ref >

With Belgium under German occupation, Hergé decided to avoid the overt political content that he had included in previous Tintin stories, such as The Blue Lotus, The Broken Ear and King Ottokar's Sceptre.

The set of operations available through the interface is not copyrightable in the United States under Lotus v. Borland, but it can be protected with a utility patent.

Whilst still a prototype, in September 1957, it was raced at the Brighton Speed Trials and by the end of 1958 Graham Hill was winning races with the Coventry Climax-engined ' Super Seven ' The car has had a strong racing history throughout its life under both Lotus and Caterham stewardship.

Only a few months after production started, the Lotus badge on the rear panel was cancelled and a new TWIN-CAM badge was fitted under the Cortina script on the boot lid.

Having worked freelance for most of his career, he spent five years at Lotus Cars in the 1980s under the chairmanship of David Wickins.

Between them, Valsecchi and Nasr scored enough points to win DAMS's first GP2 Teams ' Championship, six points ahead of ART, competing under the Lotus GP banner.

Friday practice began under a dark, misty cloud and, as the weather slowly improved, the Lotus cars again posted the fastest times with Clark ahead of Hill.

Graham Hill, in a privately-entered Lotus 72, came into the pits on lap 30 with fuel sloshing around in the cockpit, as a fitting had come loose under the seat.

Lotus and Brabham were the only teams to get their cars under 1: 13. 0 during qualifying.

As the movement matured, the two major locations of Black Arts ' ideological leadership, particularly for literary work, were California's Bay Area because of the Journal of Black Poetry and the Black Scholar, and the Chicago-Detroit axis because of Negro Digest / Black World and Third World Press in Chicago, and Broadside Press and Naomi Long Madgett's Lotus Press in Detroit.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

In 1982 Jim Manzi came to Lotus as a management consultant, and became an employee four months later.

Jim Manzi looked for potential white knights, and forced IBM to increase its bid to $ 64. 50 per share, for a $ 3. 5 billion buyout of Lotus in July 1995.

The DFV won on its first outing, at the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix in the hands of Jim Clark, fitted to a Lotus 49, and from 1968 was available for purchase to any F1 team that wished it.

Major success came in 1963 with the Lotus 25, which — with Jim Clark driving — won Lotus its first F1 World Constructors Championship.

The supercharged Lotus Elise S ( which replaced the SC model ) and limited edition Jim Clark Type 25 Elise editions add a new performance dimension to the Elise range.

Surtees won two races and Bandini one ; the Ferrari was slower than Jim Clark's Lotus but its vastly superior reliability gave Surtees the championship and Bandini fourth place.

In the 1961 Italian Grand Prix on 10 September at Monza, Wolfgang von Trips in his Ferrari collided with Jim Clark's Lotus.

Jim Clark in the Lotus pit at the German GP 1964

* The British Racing Motors ( BRM ) H-16 Formula One engine won the 1966 US Grand Prix with Jim Clark in a Lotus 43.

** 30 May – Jim Clark ( Great Britain ) wins the 50th running of the Indianapolis 500 in Lotus 38-Cosworth, with a winning margin of one lap.

* Formula One – Jim Clark ( Great Britain ) is two-time World Drivers ' Champion, driving a Lotus 25-Climax.

* Formula One – Jim Clark ( Great Britain ) wins World Drivers ' Champion, driving a Lotus 25-Climax.

Foyt wanted the use of the car for the entire month, but Lotus team owner Colin Chapman was reluctant to give up the reserve car in case something happened to team drivers Jim Clark and Dan Gurney, so discussions ended and Foyt stayed with his reliable, well-sorted Offenhauser-engined roadster.

Emerson in the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School Formula Three | F3 Lotus in the 1969 F3 Guards Trophy at Brands Hatch

Eventually, with legendary driver Jim Clark at the wheel of his race cars, Team Lotus appeared as though they could win whenever they pleased.

The Lotus 29 debuted at Indianapolis in 1963, with Jim Clark finishing second.

The 1967 Championship was essentially an internal affair within the Brabham team for most of the year, but the new Lotus 49 gave Jim Clark and Graham Hill the opportunity to bite back.

The stars of the era all visited the Tasman Series, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Timmy Mayer, Phil Hill, Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Jochen Rindt, Pedro Rodriguez, Piers Courage, leading teams from Cooper, Lotus, Lola, BRM, even the four wheel drive Ferguson P99 and finally, Ferrari, racing against the local stars, Brabham, McLaren, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon, Frank Gardner, Frank Matich, Leo Geoghegan and Kevin Bartlett.

Notable exhibits include the 1936 twin engined Alfa Romeo Bimotore which has a top speed of, Jim Clark's World Championship winning Lotus 25, the ' howling ' flat 12 Ferrari 312B, and Stirling Moss's Lotus, in which he defeated the Ferrari works team in the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.

In April 1963, the first race with Formula One cars took place at Imola, as a non-championship event, won by Jim Clark for Lotus.