Applix and Walnut Creek Partner to Provide Applixware Office for FreeBSD Operating System; Applixware to be distributed in multiple languages with FreeBSD 3.3.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1999-- 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), the leader in 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). workstations, today announced a distribution agreement with Walnut Creek CDROM Walnut Creek CDROM (Walnut Creek, California) was an early provider of freeware, shareware and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded in August 1991 by Bob Bruce and was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. . Walnut Creek will distribute Applixware Office Version 4.4.2 with their FreeBSD 3.3 Power Desktop product. For existing users of FreeBSD, the Applixware Office suite will be available from the FreeBSDMall on-line store at http://www.freebsdmall.com. In addition Walnut Creek will bundle Applix' SHELF, a visual Open Source application development toolset and runtime environment, in FreeBSD. "Applix is dedicating extensive resources to develop applications for Open Source Software environments, and the feedback from our customers has been tremendous" said R.J. Grandpre, vice president of Sales and Marketing for Applix's Linux Division. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to bring our award-winning applications to the large installed base using FreeBSD." "We are very excited to have the Applix Office Suite available for FreeBSD" said Bob Bruce, the president of Walnut Creek." FreeBSD has always been a strong contender as a server OS, but until now we haven't had a top-tier office suite to give us a competitive edge as a Desktop Operating System The control program in a user's machine (desktop or laptop). Also called a "client operating system," Windows is the overwhelming majority while the Macintosh comes second. There are also several versions of Linux for the desktop. Contrast with network operating system. ." Applix is offering free support for Applixware Office for FreeBSD users, who purchase through the Walnut Creek relationship. The company will utilize its SmartBeak.com website, http://www.SmartBeak.com, to provide free Internet based support for these new users. About Applix, Inc. Applix, Inc. (NASDAQ: APLX), headquartered in Westboro, MA, is a leading provider of productivity and analytic applications for the Linux, UNIX and Microsoft platforms. Applixware Office is the only office suite designed for and integrated with the Linux and UNIX environments. Applix SHELF is an open source application development and deployment system. With Applix Anyware, applications are deployed to any standard web browser using Java. Applix iTM1 is an on-line analytical processing (database) On-Line Analytical Processing - (OLAP) A category of database software which provides an interface such that users can transform or limit raw data according to user-defined or pre-defined functions, and quickly and interactively examine the results in various dimensions solution for decision support and real-time business analysis. Smartbeak.com is the Linux customer support and collaboration web site. Applix iEnterprise is an Internet-based 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. ) solution. 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, Turbo Linux) 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) ), IBM AIX (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) and all other major Unix platforms). More information can be found at http://www.applix.com. About Walnut Creek Walnut Creek CDROM was founded in 1991 by its current president and owner, Mr. Robert Bruce. Since the beginning, Walnut Creek CDROM has maintained a philosophy of creating superior quality CDROM See CD-ROM. software products at a reasonable price to the consumer. The company is also the premier CDROM supplier of the popular FreeBSD and Slackware Linux Operating Systems. Walnut Creek CDROM provides these and a vast collection of other software free of charge to Internet users on its FTP site at ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com. With more than 750,000 visitors a day that download more than 1 terabyte (1000 gigabytes) of files, ftp.freesoftware.com is widely known as the world's most popular public FTP software archive. For more information about Walnut Creek CDROM visit their web site at http://www.cdrom.com/ About FreeBSD BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. stands for Berkeley System Distribution, a version of Unix developed at the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . After Berkeley stopped funding the effort, BSD split off into four groups, including the FreeBSD group that optimizes BSD for Intel chips. By some estimates, 70 percent of all ISPs use FreeBSD. Equally impressive is the number of large Web sites using BSD including Yahoo, CDROM Inc. and Hotmail. More information can be found at http://www.freebsd.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 "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. 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