Lotus Development Corp begins to look as if it will need all the money it can get from its lawsuit against Borland International Inc if it manages to win it: Lodus warns that the excitement from 1-2-3 3.0 and 2.2 is already wearing off and that third quarter profits may be down, and Richard Sherlund at Goldman, Sachs & Co told the Wall Street Journal that while he reckons that Lotus is selling 120,000 new copies and 25,000 upgrades a month, Borland is catching up, doing 45,000 copies of Quattro Pro a month, and Micosoft Corp getting 35,000 Excels away a month.
