AnywareOffice by VistaSource Selected the Suite of Choice for Zoned In; New Partnership will Bring AnywareOffice into an Estimated 1.6 Million Households.Business/Technology Editors LinuxWorld Conference & Expo SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 VistaSource, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :APLX) announced today at Linux World a new service agreement with Zoned In, a full-service Internet provider aiming to bring a simplified, faster and more secure Internet into every household and business. Under the terms of the new agreement, every customer who subscribes to Zoned In's services will have full access to AnywareOffice(TM), the full-featured productivity suite from VistaSource. AnywareOffice(TM) will help to fulfill the portion of Zoned In's mission that aims to provide a comprehensive Internet Operating System (IOS (1) (Internetwork Operating System) An operating system from Cisco that is the primary control program used in its routers. IOS is widely used and robust system software that supports the common functions of all products under Cisco's CiscoFusion architecture. ) complete with a virtual desktop for personal productivity and administrative tasks. Zoned In, which will roll out its services in late September of this year, projects subscriptions of 1.6 million by mid-year 2001. This equates to the same number of households, and an even greater number of potential users, accessing AnywareOffice(TM) applications. AnywareOffice(TM) will be hosted on Zoned In's cluster of Linux-based servers and is accessible through any Java-enabled browser. Because AnywareOffice(TM) was created for server-centric computing, it is extremely scalable and as such became Zoned In's top choice. "We ultimately selected AnywareOffice(TM) because of its unrivaled scalability," stated Mark Cano, Senior Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Relations for Zoned In. "When we begin to market our services to the 80 million households in the United States, we want to be sure that we can provide the same level of service at any subscription level. With AnywareOffice(TM), we have the confidence that we can support an exceptionally large number of concurrent users without any change in performance." "Working with Zoned In is a perfect fit for AnywareOffice(TM) and our organization as a whole," said R.J. Grandpre, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at VistaSource. He continued, "Zoned In's mission to simplify the computing environment and reduce total cost of ownership for the user is directly in line with our initiatives. This is also a great opportunity for us to be a part of this revolutionary concept and provides us with the potential to reach millions of consumers." Through strategic alliances with major industry partners, Zoned In owns and is developing Linux-based technologies that enable individuals without a PC to gain Internet access through a connection to the Z-Box, Zoned In's Linux-based set top device. The Z-Box will be the new low cost vehicle for a household's Internet and entertainment needs. Coupled with Zoned In's IOS, the Z-Box will give all local businesses the ability to bridge the gap between the consumer's online sales experience and the offline movement of products, services and inventory. Zoned In's e-Commerce initiative will be focused on providing cost effective service to the underserved small business sector, thus eliminating the need to create and purchase expensive IT solutions for Internet connectivity. AnywareOffice(TM) is the VistaSource flagship product and includes office applications, database connectivity and an application development tool that allows the user to customize and extend the functionality of the existing application set. About VistaSource VistaSource, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ: APLX), headquartered in Westboro, MA, is a leading provider of productivity applications for the Linux and ASP markets. VistaSource was formed in April, 2000 as the first phase of a spin-out process to separate the Linux and ASP applications business from the Applix customer relationship management business, forming two separate, independent companies. The VistaSource flagship product, Applixware Office for Linux v5.0, is the leading office suite designed for and integrated with the Linux and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environments. AnywareOffice extends the power of these same applications to any standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. using Java. Applix SHELF is the uniquely powerful Open Source programming environment behind both systems. Cosource.com is a leading marketplace for Open Source components such as SHELF. Smartbeak.com provides users with automated on-line support for all VistaSource products. The Company's products are available on all major Linux and Unix platforms including Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), SuSE, Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. (NASDAQ: CALD CALD chronic active liver disease. ), Turbo Linux, Sun Microsystems Solaris (NASDAQ: SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM) and Hewlett Packard HPUX HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix (NYSE: HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ). More information can be found at http://www.vistasource.com. About Zoned In Zoned In, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Boca Raton, FL, empowers consumers by providing them with an Internet presence that enables participation in a vast interactive/proactive communication network. Zoned In provides every consumer and small business with the technology and interactive capability to perform a multitude of administrative functions that require no technical knowledge on the users' part. Zoned In has created a server based application program centered on the concept of giving consumers and businesses a functional tool to conduct e-commerce from a local brick and mortar See bricks and mortar. concept to a cyber concept and back. Zoned In has taken the new and more popular features that the Internet has to offer, and combined them into a single, easy to navigate and understand environment. For more information, please visit: http://www.zonedin.com. Notes to Investors This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Specifically, comments related to the demand for, revenue from and acceptance of the Company's products and the Company's position in the markets, may be considered forward-looking and subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the rate of growth in market demand for the products; the acceptance of the Company's products; intense competitive conditions; rapid technological change; frequent new product introductions and evolving domestic and international standards, which may render existing products and services obsolete. Refer to the Company's Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended December 31, 1999 for a list of factors as discussed under "Risk Factors". Applix does not undertake - and specifically declines any obligation - to publicly release the result of any revision which may be made to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events. All trademarks, registered trademarks, and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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