Ovation Technologies was a short-lived software company founded in Canton, Massachusetts, in December 1982[1] to create business productivity software for the then-emerging IBM PC and compatible market.
[4] Their intended product, also named "Ovation", was an integrated software suite aiming to compete against the industry leader at the time, Lotus 1-2-3.
[6][7] The "Ovation" project was led by chief software designer Robert Kutnik.
[8] The company made impressive demonstrations, culminating with a high-profile news conference staged at Manhattan's Windows on the World restaurant,[9] but ultimately they were unable to ship their product, and filed for bankruptcy by the end of 1984.
[5] Ovation's most enduring claim to fame may be as what many consider to be the industry's first widely publicized and "most notorious" example of vaporware.