Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corp, and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla have teamed up to form GO Corp with their own cash and cash raised by San Francisco venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as lead investor. Jerry Kaplan, who was chief technologist at Lotus, is to head GO Corp, and Robert Carr, who was chief scientist at Ashton-Tate Inc will be vice-president of soft-ware. Kevin Doren, co-founder of communications equipment specialist Equinox Systems will be vice-presi-dent of engineering. The company’s mission is to develop what it des-cribes as a new class of software for professionals and managers – but don’t look for any excitement from the company for a long time – Kaplan told the Wall Street Journal that GO will be engaged in research and development for the next few years and doesn’t anticipate any announcements in that time.
