Software Arts

{{Short description|American software company, 1979 to 1985}}

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name = Software Arts |

type = Private |

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foundation = 1979 |

location = Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newton, Massachusetts |

key_people = Co-founders Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston |

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industry = Software |

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products = VisiCalc, TK/Solver, Spotlight |

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Software Arts was a software company founded by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston in 1979{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/10/business/business-people-former-friendly-rivals-joining-forces-at-lotus.html

|title=Former Friendly Rivals Joining Forces at Lotus

|author1=Kenneth N. Gilpin |author2=Todd S. Purdum |date=April 10, 1985

|url-access=limited}} to develop VisiCalc, which was published by a separate company, Personal Software Inc., later named VisiCorp.

Software Arts also developed TK!Solver,{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/09/business/lotus-set-to-acquire-software-arts.html

|title=Lotus Set to Acquire Software Arts

|author=David E. Sanger |date=April 9, 1985

|url-access=limited}} a numeric equation solving system originally developed by Milos Konopasek, and Spotlight, "a desktop organizer for the I.B.M. Personal Computer."

By early 1984 InfoWorld estimated that Software Arts was the world's 13th-largest microcomputer-software company, with $12 million in 1983 sales.{{cite magazine | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kC4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80 | title=Company Strategies Boomerang | work=InfoWorld | date=1984-04-02 | accessdate=10 February 2015 | author=Caruso, Denise | pages=80–83 |volume=6 |issue=14}} It was bought by Lotus in 1985.{{Cite news|last=Sanger|first=David E.|date=1985-04-09|title=Lotus Set to Acquire Software Arts (Published 1985)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/09/business/lotus-set-to-acquire-software-arts.html|access-date=2021-03-18|issn=0362-4331|url-access=limited}}