Applix Announces Early Access Download of Applixware 5.0; Applix Linux Division Embraces Open Source Technology and Release Practices.Business/Technology Editors WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000 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), a leading provider of applications for 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). desktops, announced today that they have established a pre-release program to provide early access to the next version of their office suite for Linux. Under the terms of the program, users in the Linux and open source community can freely download the first milestone pre-release of Applixware Office Version 5.0. This version represents a significant evolution of development direction to incorporate the advantages of open source software. Specifically, Applixware Office now uses the GTK See GTK+. + widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. kit to provide a modern, themable and extensible user interface. Applix is the only commercial integrated office suite for Linux to base it's look and feel on an open source widgets set. Additionally, version 5.0 provides closer integration for Linux desktops with it's support for the dragging and dropping of files from the GNOME and KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. desktop environments into Applixware Office documents. These advances clearly differentiate Applixware Office from it's competitors in its alignment with leading edge Linux desktop technologies. Asked why Applix had chosen to make the pre-release widely available to the Linux community Bernie Thompson, President of the Applix Linux Division responded, &uot;Applix has based its success on providing native, fast and stable applications specifically for Linux and Unix environments. With this release, we are building on these traditional strengths by integrating open source technologies and adopting proven open source practices such as public problem tracking. The result is a software company and product line especially suited for the Linux platform.&uot; To support the version 5.0 milestone program, Applix will be leveraging their www.SmartBeak.com support and collaboration website as an interface for people wanting to post issues or questions and track bugs. By visiting the SmartBeak.com website users will have full access to a full list of reported problems and questions and they will be able to track the progress that Applix is making towards fixing reported issues. &uot;The emergence of the open source software model has taught us that by empowering users with full and open access to information concerning the use and quality of a vendor's software application benefits both the customer and the author,&uot; said Richard Manly, Director of Product Marketing. He continued, &uot;We plan to continue to use and promote these practices in future product developments.&uot; The Applixware Office 5.0 Milestone download page can be found at http://www.SmartBeak.com/M1. Visitors to the Applixware booth at the upcoming Linux World Expo at the Javits Center, New York (2nd-4th February) will receive a free CD of the software. About Applix, Inc. Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ:APLX), headquartered in Westboro, Mass., develops, markets and supports web-based, front office business solutions, which allow organizations to improve decision-making and corporate productivity. The Front Office Business Solutions include a suite of thin-client Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) applications, which include the Applix Enterprise and Enterprise Anyware product lines, and a set of real-time Business Intelligence applications, which include the Applix TM1 product line. Applix also provides the Applixware productivity applications, and the Anyware Web solutions platform. The Company's products are available on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Windows NT, Linux (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. ) and UNIX (including Sun Microsystems Solaris (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) and 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). More information can be found at http://linux.applixware.com and http://www.SmartBeak.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 for the year ended December 31, 1998 for a list of factors as discussed under &uot;Risk Factors&uot;. 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. 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