MS Office [ was Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 and Linux ]

[george@example.com]

>Nori san:
>  Nothing at all hatsukashii about W95 and MS office for 
>productivity.  We 
>use these combos, and we're very profitable and efficient, 
>both in the US 
>and Japan.
>
>If we started loading up Linux and compiling our source code for 
>all the 
>programs run, we'd have some fun, but we'd spend the next 5 years 
>re-writing 
>ms word, ms project, and ms powerpoint for linux.  

     Well... you don't really have to. Because there's Applixware!
>From http://199.183.24.251/news/applixware.html:

Applix and Red Hat Software Announce Applixware for Red Hat Linux
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Most popular and complete office suite for UNIX to be available for Linux.

Westboro, MA, - Applix Inc. (NASDAQ: APLX) and Red Hat Software, Inc.
announced today the availability of Applix's Applixware(TM) suite of
office automation products for the Red Hat(TM) Linux operating system.
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 release 3.0.3 of Red Hat Linux. Also under the
terms of the 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(r) systems. Applixware for Red Hat Linux features fully
integrated graphical:

o. spreadsheet, 
o. word processing, 
o. graphics, 
o. presentation, 
o. electronic mail, and 
o. HTML 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 worldwide in research and
development organizations. It can be used as a low-cost, fully
functional UNIX workstation for Internet server and other
applications. The Red Hat Linux operating system 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. "Partnering with Applix ensures
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 and Linux resellers, 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 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
client/server environments, including the Web. Applix Enterprise is
an integrated suite 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 Linux 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 and simplest to administer advanced
operating system. Red Hat also publishes and distributes commercial
applications for Linux of which Applixware is one of the most
significant.



Cheers,
George


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