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In the late spring of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development and Microsoft Excel is the spreadsheet market leader.
In October 2003, Dan Bricklin is working at Interland.
Bob Frankston is "pursuing a number of projects.
Dan Fylstra is president of PC software vendor Frontline Systems.
Richard Mattessich is retired and an emeritus Professor of Commerce and Business Administration.

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Excel was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using a mouse pointing device.
Spreadsheet products and the spreadsheet software industry were maturing.
The spreadsheet entrepreneurs were moving on ...

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In 1983, Lotus first year of operations, the company reported revenues of $53 Million and had a successful public offering.
The number of employees at Lotus grew to over a thousand by 1985.
This rapid growth led to a shakeout in the spreadsheet segment of the personal computer software industry.

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The market for electronic spreadsheet software was growing rapidly in the early 1980s.
VisiCalc stakeholders were slow to respond to the introduction of the IBM PC, so during this period, Mitch Kapor developed Lotus and his spreadsheet program quickly became the new industry spreadsheet standard.

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He pioneered the development of computerized speadsheets for use in business accounting.
This electronic spreadsheet type application was used for budgeting at Bell Canada, AT&T, Bell operating companies, and General Motors.

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By the fall of 1978, Bricklin had programmed the first working prototype of his concept in integer basic.
Bricklin recruited an MIT acquaintance Bob Frankston to improve and expand the program.

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Is a large sheet of paper with columns and rows that organizes data about transactions for a business person to examine. It spreads or shows all of the costs, income, taxes, and other related data on a single sheet of paper for a manager to examine when making a decision.