Applix and Red Hat Software announce Applixware for Red Hat LINUX; Most popular and complete office suite for UNIX to be available for LINUX.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1996--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) and Red Hat Software, Inc. announced today the availability of Applix's Applixware(tm) suite of office automation products for the Red Hat LINUX Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Under the terms of an agreement between Red Hat Software and Applix, Red Hat Software will bundle Applixware version 4.2 with the commercially available version 3.03 of Red Hat LINUX. Also, under the terms of this agreement, Red Hat Software will distribute and support the combined products. "We recognized a need in the LINUX marketplace for high-performance office automation tools," said Tony Giannelli, vice president of business development and marketing, Applix, Inc. "After an extensive review, we chose Red Hat Software because we felt that Red Hat provides the most complete platform for running Applixware on LINUX." Applixware is the most popular and complete office automation suite for 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). (r) systems. It features fully integrated spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. , word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and , graphics, presentation, electronic mail and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. authoring software. Applixware can be used to build integrated solutions on UNIX and now LINUX systems. The advanced Applix Builder rapid application development environment is also included in the agreement. LINUX is a co-operatively developed POSIX-oriented, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system in use world wide in research and developer organizations. It can be used as a low-cost, fully functional UNIX workstation for Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the server and other applications. Red Hat LINUX is the most popular distribution of the LINUX operating system for software developers and other serious applications. Red Hat LINUX is maintained as "freely distributable" software available from many sites on the Internet. "The opportunity for software developers to develop and run Applixware applications on low-cost PC workstations will make Applixware more readily accessible to a much broader audience," said Bob Young, president of Red Hat Software, Inc. "The opportunity to partner with Applix ensures that our customers are getting the absolute best office automation suite possible for LINUX. Red Hat Software is committed to bringing serious development tools to the LINUX operating system and Applixware for Red Hat LINUX is one of the most important of these to date." Applixware for Red Hat LINUX will be available directly from Red Hat Software early this summer. The suggested retail price is $495.00 per user. About Applix, Inc. Applix, Inc., based in Westboro, MA, provides solutions for the Real Time Enterprise -- those organizations that seek and gain competitive advantage by converting raw data into effective action in the shortest possible time. Applix develops, markets and supports Applixware and Applix Enterprise software. Applixware for the Real Time Desk is an open suite of integrated personal desktop tools that enable individual users with time-critical and historical data needs to access, analyze, display and communicate information from a universal desktop across heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). client/server environments A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. , including the Web. Applix Enterprise is an integrated set of support automation applications for handling the dynamic data needs of customer interaction environments. About Red Hat Software, Inc. Red Hat Software, Inc., based in Westport, CT, builds and maintains the Red Hat distribution of the LINUX operating system. Working in cooperation with a huge development team of research, academic and commercial software developer volunteers over the Internet, Red Hat's goal is to build the easiest to install and simplest to administer LINUX operating system. Red Hat also publishes and distributes commercial applications for LINUX, of which Applixware is one of the most significant. -0- All trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks are property of their respective companies. CONTACT: Mark Prahl Lisa Sullivan Applix, Inc. Red Hat Software, Inc. (508) 870-0300, ext. 295 (203) 454-5500 mprahl@applix.com sulli@redhat.com or Patty Anderson/Gina Marchese mar·che·se n. pl. mar·che·si 1. An Italian nobleman ranking above a count and below a prince. 2. Used as the title for such a nobleman. 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