IBM OfficeVision
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OfficeVision is an IBM proprietary office support application that runs on IBM's VM operating system and its user interface CMS. (Other platform versions were available, OV/MVS and OV/400 among them, but were not popular.) OfficeVision/VM provides e-mail, shared calendars, and shared document storage and management, and it provides the ability to integrate word processing applications such as Displaywrite/370 and/or the Document Composition Facility (DCF/SCRIPT).
OfficeVision was originally named PROFS (for PRofessional OFfice System) and was initially made available in 1981. Before that it was a PRPQ (Programming Request for Price Quotation), an IBM administrative term for "not quite supported" software. PROFS was originally developed in conjunction with Amoco. The advent of the personal computer and the client/server paradigm changed the way organizations looked at office automation, and these applications were rapidly moved off legacy systems.
IBM's answer was OfficeVision/2, a server-requestor system designed to be the strategic implementation of IBM's Systems Application Architecture. The server could run on OS/2, VM, MVS (XA or ESA) or OS/400, while the requester required OS/2 Extended Edition running on IBM PS/2 personal computers, or DOS. IBM also developed OfficeVision/2 LAN for workgroups, which failed to find market acceptance and was withdrawn in May 1994. Ultimately, IBM solved its OfficeVision problems through the hostile takeover of Lotus Software, for its Lotus Notes product.
IBM discontinued support of OfficeVision/VM as of October 6th 2003. IBM recommended that its OfficeVision customers migrate to the Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino environments.
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