Cc:Mail

cc:Mail is a discontinued store-and-forward LAN-based email system originally developed on Microsoft's MS-DOS platform by Concentric Systems, Inc. in the 1980s. The company, founded by Robert Plummer, Hubert Lipinski, and Michael Palmer, later changed its name to PCC Systems, Inc., and then to cc:Mail, Inc.[1] At the height of its popularity, cc:Mail had about 14 million users,[2] and won various awards for being the top email software package of the mid-1990s.[3]

  1. ^ InfoWorld, "Sharing Applications On-Line", June 3, 1985, p. 41 ("PCC Systems also has an electronic mail package...").
  2. ^ Computerworld, "cc:Mail users get the message to move on", January 25, 1999, p. 12.
  3. ^ Business Wire, "Lotus cc:Mail Awarded Top Honors in Four Leading Industry Trade Publications" Archived 2015-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, November 17, 1994.