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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce
Subject: Anyone interested in the following?
Date: 21 May 1996 15:18:13 -0500
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cc: Wilson Liaw <macgyver@infinet.com>, tgiannelli@applix.com
Subject: Anyone interested in the following?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 May 1996 15:01:25 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:20:51 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Some of you may have seen the announcement for Applixware go by
recently, a joint project between Applix and Red Hat Software to bring
a full-featured desktop suite to Linux. To quote briefly from the
announcement below:
> 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, 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.
>
> 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.
Now, "what does all this have to do with me?" you may ask.
Well, I've talked with Tony Giannelli about bring the Applix suite
(see http://www.applix.com) to FreeBSD and he naturally would like to
see some numbers for the potential size of the FreeBSD market before
deciding whether or not to make the investment of porting, testing and
marketing their products there.
That's where you come in. If you'd like to see the Applixware desktop
available for FreeBSD and would buy a copy were it available (I assume
that pricing would be similar to that of the Red Hat product), please
send mail to:
Tony Giannelli <tgiannelli@applix.com>
And let him know. He'll tally up the requests and try to decide
whether or not a strong market case for a FreeBSD product can be made
at this time.
I've heard many of you crying out for spreadsheets, word processors
and the like for FreeBSD for several years now, well, here's your
chance to try and do something about it! If we don't take the time to
make our desires known then ISVs certainly aren't going to take time
to port their software to our operating system and so, if you've a
genuine interest in any of the above, please take a moment to let Tony
know!
Thanks..
Jordan
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