Sigh Clearly I haven't licenced my username from anyone because I'm not an entity trading in the same market as a very well known pre-existing brand of the same name.

I'm just some anonymous putz asking an honest question in good faith.

Since HCL don't seem to be using the Lotus name right now, it wasn't clear if they actually bought the rights from IBM during the sale of other assets.

It seemed at least plausible that this new venture might have licensed or bought an unused, established name for market recognition.

If that is the case then I think it's a great bit of marketing and I'd like to know more about how they pulled it off.