Applixware Office for Linux Wins Linux Magazine Cool Product Award.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1999-- Industry magazine selects Applixware Office as the best choice for productivity applications on the Linux desktop 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 Linux application software today announced that Applixware Office for Linux 4.4.2 has won a Linux Magazine Cool Product Award. The award from the November issue compared Applixware Office for Linux against both commercial and open source productivity suites including Sun Microsystems Star Office (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), Corel WordPerfect for Linux (NASDAQ:CORL CORL Corel Corporation (stock symbol) CORL Coalition of Reef Lovers CORL capital outlay revenue limit CORL change-orientated reflective listening (psychotherapy) CORL Central Ontario Ringette League ), 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. Office, and Gnome Workshop. Applixware Office for Linux was selected for its combination of full-featured productivity applications, ease-of-use, extensibility and ability to exchange documents with Microsoft Office and other Windows-based applications. "We are very pleased to be recognized by Linux Magazine as a leader in the rapidly growing Linux market and this further validates our position." said R.J. Grandpre, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Applix's Linux Division. "As more corporations see the cost benefits of Linux, we see Applixware Office providing mission critical stability, performance and seamless interoperability with Microsoft Office users." Applixware Office for Linux is a full-featured office productivity suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet, business graphics, presentation, email, database access and rapid application development tools. Applixware Office included filters for Microsoft Office 2000 documents as well as many other popular file formats. Applix is offering free support for Applixware Office for Linux users. The company utilizes its SmartBeak.com web site, http://www.SmartBeak.com, to provide free Internet based support for all licensed 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 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). 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), 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 (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) and all other major Unix platforms). More information can be found at http://www.applix.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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