Applix Showcases Only OLAP Solution for the Linux Operating System At COMDEX `98.

WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998--

Applix TM1 OLAP for Linux Provides Powerful Platform for

Analysis, Budgeting, Enterprise Planning and Control

Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ:APLX), the leader in real-time online analytical processing (OLAP) applications and the first to market an OLE DB for OLAP compliant engine, today announced the availability of Applix TM1 OLAP for Linux, the first and only OLAP solution for enterprise-wide financial decision support on the Linux operating system. TM1 OLAP for Linux, the latest version of Applix TM1's portable OLAP environment, uses the familiar Applixware Spreadsheet interface to provide a powerful tool for developing real-time decision support applications.

With Applix TM1 OLAP for Linux, over seven million customers using the popular Linux operating system now have immediate access to multidimensional views of their business with a full-featured, easy-to-use solution. Used as a client, customers can also seamlessly connect to the powerful TM1 Server for an incomparable OLAP environment. Additionally, Applix TM1 OLAP for Linux is ideal for rapid application development because it allows users to gain results quickly with a proof-of-concept prototype, fine tune it, and deploy it enterprise-wide in the fastest way possible.

"Applix has been the recognized leader in the Linux movement since 1996 when we launched the first office information suite for Linux," said Susan Stevenson, vice president, for Applix TM1. "With TM1 OLAP for Linux, Applix is continuing its leadership in anticipating and responding to the growing Linux community's needs for a powerful, easy-to-use solution that enables real-time analysis, budgeting and enterprise planning."

Applix TM1 OLAP for Linux Features:

Building on Applix TM1's unique RAM-based OLAP model, TM1 OLAP for Linux extends Applix's lead in financial OLAP performance and scalability decision support analysis for a broader user group. Highlights include:

-- Familiar Spreadsheet Interface: With Applixware Spreadsheet, users have all the spreadsheet power and flexibility for formatting, charting and ad hoc analysis without requiring queries or macros;

-- OLAP Capabilities Anytime/Anywhere: Solution can be used on a notebook computer and provides dial-up network capabilities to work with users across the enterprise at anytime, making it extremely convenient for the Linux user;

-- Real-time Calculation-on-Demand: Provides no waiting for pre-calculations and batch processing, with real-time access to incremental updates and allows new data elements to be added to a dimension at any time;

-- Full Multidimensional Modeling: Enables users to work with as many cubes as needed in a normalized data structure;

-- Browse Facility: Provides an easy-to-use environment that allows non-technical users to rearrange rows or columns with drag-and-drop flexibility, stack multiple dimensions and recall at any time, rearrange elements of a dimension, cut, paste and sort, select elements by pattern or by level in hierarchy

-- Sparse Matrix Handling: Provides fastest consolidations of large applications and ensures optimal calculation speed and performance, ensuring quality decision analysis--without the wait.

Availability and Pricing

Applix TM1 OLAP for Linux must be used with Applixware Spreadsheet and will be available in early December 1998. Pricing for the client will start at $99.95.

About TM1: Pioneering RAM-Based OLAP for Enterprise-wide Analysis

Since 1984, TM1 has advanced the art of RAM-based OLAP for real-time analytical processing, targeting the financial OLAP class of applications. Applix TM1 has patented technology that makes real-time OLAP feasible, including calculation in memory, cell-based multidimensional rules, and security. With the introduction of two-way replication, TM1 is the only OLAP environment designed for real-time, collaborative financial applications for workgroups and the enterprise. Applix TM1 is also the first OLAP engine to implement Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP standard, allowing its powerful OLAP engine to work with a multitude of front-end clients for reporting and web browsing. More than 3,000 companies worldwide benefit from TM1's real-time analytical processing. Without waiting, Applix TM1 delivers results to the hardest questions, and gives users control over vast amounts of rapidly changing data.

About Applix, Inc.

Applix, Inc., (NASDAQ:APLX) headquartered in Westboro, MA, is a leading provider of Internet front-office business applications for the enterprise, that allow organizations to better access, analyze, and act on customer and market information. Applix Enterprise is an Internet-centric customer relationship management solution which received the Editor's Choice Award from Call Center Solutions Magazine in 1998; Applix TM1 is a online analytical processing solution for decision support and real-time business analysis; and Applix office solutions include Applix Office for UNIX(R), Linux(R) and Windows NT, and Anyware Office for Java-based desktops.

With thousands of customers around the world - including such companies as Blockbuster Video, MTV, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Sony, Harrah's, New Holland N.A., Kaiser Permanente, SmithKline Beecham, Bristol-Myers Squibb, British Airways, Reuters, VISA International, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse, Daimler Benz, Singapore Telecom, U.S. Army, and the U.S. Department of Energy - Applix leads the way in delivering Internet-centric enterprise applications for today's globally distributed companies. More information can be found at www.applix.com.

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