Editing Lotus Improv (section)

===Back Bay===
By the end of the summer of 1986, Salas had created a [[slideshow]]-like demonstration of a system known as Modeler on the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]]. In February 1987 he hired Glenn Edelson to implement a working version in [[C++]]. As they worked on the project, it became clear that the basic concept was a good one, and was especially useful for financial modeling. At the end of the spring, they hired Bonnie Sullivan to write up a project specification, and Jeff Anderholm was hired to examine the market for a new program aimed at the financials industry. That summer, the team took Modeler to a number of financials companies, and found an overwhelmingly positive reception.{{sfn|Garfinkel|1991|p=34}}

A year later, in September 1988, the team was finally given the go-ahead to start implementing Modeler. After examining a number of platforms, including [[DOS]] and the [[Classic Mac OS|Macintosh OS]], the team decided the target platform would be [[OS/2]], at that time considered to be an up-and-coming system in the commercial space. The project was given the [[code name]] "Back Bay", which was named after [[Back Bay, Boston|Back Bay]] in [[Boston]], and a mascot, namd Fluffy Bunny, was selected.{{sfn|Garfinkel|1991|p=34}}

The next month, in October 1988, [[Steve Jobs]] visited Lotus to show them the new [[NeXT]] computer. When he saw Back Bay he immediately got excited and started pressing for it to be developed on the NeXT platform. The Lotus team was equally excited about NeXT, but continued work on the OS/2 platform.{{sfn|Garfinkel|1991|p=34}} This proved to be much more difficult than imagined; at the time, OS/2 was very buggy, and their [[Presentation Manager]] UI was in its infancy. Development was not proceeding well.{{sfn|Garfinkel|1991|p=35}}