IBM Lotus Organizer

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Lotus Organizer is a personal information manager package. It was initially developed by Threadz, a small British software house, reaching version 3.0. Organizer was subsequently acquired by Lotus Development Corporation, for whom the package was a Windows-based replacement for Lotus Agenda. For several years it was the unquestioned market leader before it was gradually overtaken by Microsoft's Outlook.

It is notable for using the organizer graphical metaphor for its user interface and is often bundled within Lotus SmartSuite.

IBM continues to support and ship Lotus Organizer. Version 6.1 is the most recent version, with support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

1 Versions
- 1.1 Microsoft Windows
- 1.2 IBM OS/2
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Versions

[edit] Microsoft Windows

Organizer is a part of Lotus SmartSuite, but is also sold as a single application. The latest releases of SmartSuite don't include the current version 6 of Organizer, it is sold separately only.

Versions up to 2 were 16-bit programs, later have been 32-bit.

Version	File format	Year	Included in
1	.org	1992
1.1	.org
2	.or2
97 (3.1)	.or3	1997	SmartSuite 97
97 GS (4.0)	.or4	1997
4.1	.or4	1998	SmartSuite Millennium Edition Release 9
5	.or5	1999	SmartSuite Millennium Edition Release 9.5-9.8.x
6.0	.or6	1999
6.1	.or6	2003

[edit] IBM OS/2

The first OS/2 version was released in 1998. Until then, the Windows 16-bit version had been used. The last version is 1.7 from 2001. Later revisions of SmartSuite have not upgraded Organizer, although some fixes have been made.

It uses the .or4 file format. This means that it cannot exchange data files with the later Windows versions, other than by importing and exporting data.

Otherwise, its features and looks are similar to the Windows version 97. It lacks later improvements, such as importing and exporting vCard and iCalendar files, and synchronisation with PDA.