A Last Look at ApplixWare

Linux.com (Also owned by VA) is taking a look at the once widely popular office suite, ApplixWare. From the article: "Passed to a subsidiary of Applix called VistaSource that later became independent, ApplixWare was repositioned as a combination of a basic office package and a developer's toolkit running from a common main menu. For a while, it was even renamed AnyWare. Now at version 6, ApplixWare is back to its original name, with versions available for AIX, GNU/Linux, and SPARC Solaris, with earlier versions still supported for Windows and FreeBSD. The trial download for GNU/Linux shows ApplixWare's age, but it also shows a trick or two that its newer rivals might learn from."

Comments

VistaSource?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Passed to a subsidiary of Applix called VistaSource.....

I hadn't heard of a subsidiary of Applix called VistaSource.

But a quick google finds that VistaSource is 60% imcomplete ;-)

Thank you, thank you - try the salmon.

Re:Got me threw the first year of college it did.

[TheRaven64]

I got Applix ware and it got me threw college.

Apparently basic English literacy wasn't a requirement of your course.

Re:Got me threw the first year of college it did.

[wiredlogic]

Let me guess, liberal arts major?

Must be. You can see the Joycian influence on his spelling and sentence structure. Absolutely brilliant.

Re:Got me threw the first year of college it did.

[nocomment]

No, that's *how* applix got him threw college. ;-) It corrected all his mistakes :-p

Re:I once paid for the 5.0 version to run on FreeB

[drinkypoo]

Just have to do some shlib-magic (using LD_PRELOAD and /etc/libmap.conf ), but it "just works".

Jesus H. Christ in a sidecar carrying a crutch and bouncing on a pogo stick, if that's "just works" then I'd seriously hate to see what "works with some difficulty" looks like...