ENTREPRENEURS: Lox on a Floppy Disk, to Go

! When Mitch Kapor, 36, the computer-software wunderkind, resigned as chairman of Lotus Development Corp. last year, he said he was leaving to “explore other endeavors.” So what has the former disk jockey and transcendental- meditation instructor come up with for an encore? Opening a delicatessen only a matzoh ball’s throw from Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. “I see it as a social service,” says Brooklyn-born Kapor. “The deli is for anyone who complains about not being able to find a decent pastrami sandwich in Boston.”

Kapor is not the only prominent pastrami lover in the new enterprise. Among his five “mostly Jewish and homesick” partners is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Quips Kapor, who is looking for a new niche in the software industry: “At least I won’t go hungry in the meantime.”