content: <PAGE>   1
  As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2000
  
                                                             Registration No. 333-
  
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                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
                                  -----------------
  
                                      FORM S-8
                               REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                        UNDER
                             THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
                                    APPLIX, INC.
                 (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
  
  
             MASSACHUSETTS                               04-2781676
    (State or other jurisdiction of                    (I.R.S. Employer
     incorporation or organization)                   Identification No.)
  
                112 TURNPIKE ROAD, WESTBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01581-2831
                 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
  
                             1994 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
                           2000 DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN
                              (Full title of the Plan)
  
                              PATRICK J. RONDEAU, ESQ.
                                  HALE AND DORR LLP
                                   60 STATE STREET
                             BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02109
                       (Name and address of agent for service)
  
                                   (617) 526-6670
            (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                                ---------------------
  
                           CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
  
  <TABLE>
  <CAPTION>
  TITLE OF SECURITIES     AMOUNT TO BE        PROPOSED MAXIMUM OFFERING     PROPOSED MAXIMUM              AMOUNT OF
  TO BE REGISTERED        REGISTERED          PRICE PER SHARE               AGGREGATE OFFERING PRICE      REGISTRATION FEE
  ---------------------   -----------------   -------------------------     ------------------------      ----------------
  <S>           <C>        <C>                       <C>                         <C>                            <C>
  Common Stock, $.00025    1,050,000 shares          $7.82 (1)                   $8,211,000 (1)                 $2,168
  par value
  </TABLE>
  
  (1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and
  based on the average of the high and low prices as reported by Nasdaq on June
  13, 2000 in accordance with Securities Act Rule 457(c) and (h).
  
  
  
  
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            PART I. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
  
           The information required by Part I is included in documents sent or
  given to participants in the 1994 Equity Incentive Plan and the 2000 Director
  Stock Option Plan of Applix, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the
  "Registrant"), pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as
  amended (the "Securities Act").
  
             PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
           Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
  
           The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting
  requirements of Sections 13(a), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
  1934 (as amended, the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance therewith files
  reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange
  Commission. The following documents, which are filed with the Securities and
  Exchange Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by
  reference:
  
                 (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
  ended December 31, 1999 as filed with the Commission on March 30, 2000.
  
                 (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
  the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report
  referred to in (a) above, comprised of the following:
  
                      (i)  The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                           fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2000 as filed with the
                           Commission on May 10, 2000.
  
                 (c) Registration Statement on Form 8-A as filed with the
  Commission on October 28, 1994.
  
           All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
  13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
  post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Common Stock offered
  hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Common Stock then
  remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to
  be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.
  
           Item 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
  
           Not applicable.
  
           Item 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
  
           Not applicable.
  
           Item 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
  
           Section 67 of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law provides that
  a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent
  of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the
  corporation in related capacities against liabilities incurred in connection
  with an action or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party
  by reason of such position, unless such person shall have been adjudicated not
  to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the
  best interest of the corporation.
  
           The Registrant's Articles of Organization provide that a director or
  officer of the Registrant shall be indemnified by the Registrant against all
  expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
  settlement reasonably incurred in connection with any litigation or other legal
  proceeding brought against him by virtue of his position as a director or
  officer of the Registrant unless he is deemed (in the manner provided in the
  Articles of Organization) to have not acted in good faith in the reasonable
  belief that his action was in the best interest of the Registrant. Expenses
  incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be
  
  
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  advanced by the Registrant to a director or officer, at his request, upon
  receipt of an undertaking by the director or officer to repay such amount if it
  is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification.
  
           In the event of a determination by the Registrant that the director or
  officer did not meet the applicable standard of conduct required for
  indemnification, or if the Registrant fails to make an indemnification payment
  within 60 days after such payment is claimed by such person, such person is
  permitted to petition a court to make an independent determination as to whether
  such person is entitled to indemnification. As a condition precedent to the
  right of indemnification, the director or officer must give the Registrant
  notice of the action for which indemnity is sought and the Registrant has the
  right to participate in such action or assume the defense thereof.
  
           The Registrant's Articles of Organization further provide that the
  indemnification provided therein is not exclusive, and provide that in the event
  that the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law is amended to expand the
  indemnification permitted to directors or officers, the Registrant must
  indemnify those persons to the fullest extent permitted by such law as so
  amended.
  
           The Registrant has purchased and maintains insurance coverage under a
  policy insuring directors and officers of the Registrant against certain
  liabilities which they may incur as directors or officers of the Registrant,
  which may include coverage for liabilities arising under the Securities Act.
  
           Item 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
  
           Not applicable.
  
           Item 8.  EXHIBITS.
  
           The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated
  herein by reference.
  
           Item 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.
  
           1.       The Registrant hereby undertakes:
  
           (a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
  a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
  
                    (i)      To include any prospectus required by Section
                             10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
  
                    (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                             arising after the effective date of the registration
                             statement (or the most recent post-effective
                             amendment therefor) which, individually or in the
                             aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                             information set forth in the registration statement.
                             Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or
                             decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
                             total dollar value of securities offered would not
                             exceed that which was registered) and any deviation
                             from the low or high and of the estimated maximum
                             offering range may be reflected in the form of
                             prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
                             424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
                             and price represent no more than 20 percent change in
                             the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
                             "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
                             effective registration statement;
  
                    (iii)    To include any material information with respect to
                             the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                             the registration statement or any material change to
                             such information in the registration statement;
  
                    PROVIDED, HOWEVER that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if
                    the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form
                    F-3, and the information required to be included in a
  
  
  
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                    post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
                    periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
                    the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
                    Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
                    registration statement.
  
           (b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
  Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
  offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
  fide offering thereof.
  
           (c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
  any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
  the offering.
  
       2. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
  determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
  Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
  Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
  report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
  reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
  statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
  securities at that time shall be deemed to be in the initial bona fide offering
  thereof.
  
       3. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
  Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
  Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
  has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
  such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
  and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
  against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
  incurred or paid by a director, officer of controlling person of the Registrant
  in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
  director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
  registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
  has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
  jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
  policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
  adjudication of such issue.
  
  
  
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                                     SIGNATURES
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
  Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
  of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
  Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
  authorized, in Westboro, Massachusetts, on this 15th day of June 2000.
  
  
                                        APPLIX, INC.
  
                                        By: /s/ Alan Goldsworthy
                                        -------------------------------------
                                        Alan Goldsworthy
                                        President and Chief Executive Officer
  
  
                                  POWER OF ATTORNEY
  
           We, the undersigned officers and directors of Applix, Inc. hereby
  severally constitute and appoint Edward Terino and Patrick J. Rondeau, and each
  of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each
  of them singly, to sign for us and in our names, in the capacities indicated
  below, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all
  amendments to said Registration Statement and generally to do all such things in
  our name and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable
  Applix, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as
  amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby
  ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said
  attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and all
  amendments thereto.
  
           WITNESS our hands and common seal on the date set forth below.
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
  Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
  capacities indicated as of June 15, 2000.
  
  
  SIGNATURE                                  TITLE
  
  /s/ Alan Goldsworthy                       President and  Chief Executive
  ---------------------------                Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
  Alan Goldsworthy
  
  
  
  /s/ Edward Terino                          Senior Vice President, Finance,
  ---------------------------                Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
  Edward Terino                              (Principal Financial Officer)
  
                                             Director
  ---------------------------
  Jitendra S. Saxena
  
  /s/ Paul J. Ferri                          Director
  ---------------------------
  Paul J. Ferri
  
                                             Director
  ---------------------------
  Alain J. Hanover
  
  /s/ David C. Mahoney                       Director
  ---------------------------
  David C. Mahoney
  
  /s/ Peter Gyenes                           Director
  ---------------------------
  Peter Gyenes
  
  
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                                    EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EXHIBIT
  NUMBER
  
  4.1(1)        Restated Articles of Organization.
  
  4.2 (2)       By-Laws.
  
  4.3 (3)       Specimen Certificate of Common Stock of the Registrant.
  
  5.1           Opinion of Hale and Dorr LLP.
  
  23.1          Consent of Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  
  23.2          Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
  
  24.1          Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages of
                this Registration Statement).
  -----------------------
  
  (1)  Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Registrant's
       Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-85688).
  
  (2)  Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the Registrant's
       Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-85688).
  
  (3)  Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant's
       Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-85688).
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  As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2000
  
                                                             Registration No. 333-
  
  ================================================================================
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
                                  -----------------
  
                                      FORM S-8
                               REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                        UNDER
                             THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
                                    APPLIX, INC.
                 (Exact name of issuer as specified in its charter)
  
             MASSACHUSETTS                               04-2781676
    (State or other jurisdiction of                    (I.R.S. Employer
     incorporation or organization)                   Identification No.)
  
                112 TURNPIKE ROAD, WESTBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 01581-2831
                 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
  
                             1994 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
                           2000 DIRECTOR STOCK OPTION PLAN
                              (Full title of the Plan)
  
                              PATRICK J. RONDEAU, ESQ.
                                  HALE AND DORR LLP
                                   60 STATE STREET
                             BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02109
                       (Name and address of agent for service)
  
                                   (617) 526-6670
            (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                                ---------------------
  
                           CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
  TITLE OF SECURITIES     AMOUNT TO BE        PROPOSED MAXIMUM OFFERING     PROPOSED MAXIMUM              AMOUNT OF
  TO BE REGISTERED        REGISTERED          PRICE PER SHARE               AGGREGATE OFFERING PRICE      REGISTRATION FEE
  ---------------------   -----------------   -------------------------     ------------------------      ----------------
  Common Stock, $.00025    1,050,000 shares          $7.82 (1)                   $8,211,000 (1)                 $2,168
  par value
  (1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and
  based on the average of the high and low prices as reported by Nasdaq on June
  13, 2000 in accordance with Securities Act Rule 457(c) and (h).
  2
  
            PART I. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
  
           The information required by Part I is included in documents sent or
  given to participants in the 1994 Equity Incentive Plan and the 2000 Director
  Stock Option Plan of Applix, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the
  "Registrant"), pursuant to Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as
  amended (the "Securities Act").
  
             PART II. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
           Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
  
           The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting
  requirements of Sections 13(a), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
  1934 (as amended, the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance therewith files
  reports, proxy statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange
  Commission. The following documents, which are filed with the Securities and
  Exchange Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by
  reference:
  
                 (a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
  ended December 31, 1999 as filed with the Commission on March 30, 2000.
  
                 (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
  the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the annual report
  referred to in (a) above, comprised of the following:
  
                      (i)  The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                           fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2000 as filed with the
                           Commission on May 10, 2000.
  
                 (c) Registration Statement on Form 8-A as filed with the
  Commission on October 28, 1994.
  
           All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections
  13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
  post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Common Stock offered
  hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Common Stock then
  remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to
  be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.
  
           Item 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
  
           Not applicable.
  
           Item 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
  
           Not applicable.
  
           Item 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
  
           Section 67 of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law provides that
  a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee or agent
  of the corporation and certain other persons serving at the request of the
  corporation in related capacities against liabilities incurred in connection
  with an action or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party
  by reason of such position, unless such person shall have been adjudicated not
  to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that his action was in the
  best interest of the corporation.
  
           The Registrant's Articles of Organization provide that a director or
  officer of the Registrant shall be indemnified by the Registrant against all
  expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
  settlement reasonably incurred in connection with any litigation or other legal
  proceeding brought against him by virtue of his position as a director or
  officer of the Registrant unless he is deemed (in the manner provided in the
  Articles of Organization) to have not acted in good faith in the reasonable
  belief that his action was in the best interest of the Registrant. Expenses
  incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be
  
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  3
  
  advanced by the Registrant to a director or officer, at his request, upon
  receipt of an undertaking by the director or officer to repay such amount if it
  is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification.
  
           In the event of a determination by the Registrant that the director or
  officer did not meet the applicable standard of conduct required for
  indemnification, or if the Registrant fails to make an indemnification payment
  within 60 days after such payment is claimed by such person, such person is
  permitted to petition a court to make an independent determination as to whether
  such person is entitled to indemnification. As a condition precedent to the
  right of indemnification, the director or officer must give the Registrant
  notice of the action for which indemnity is sought and the Registrant has the
  right to participate in such action or assume the defense thereof.
  
           The Registrant's Articles of Organization further provide that the
  indemnification provided therein is not exclusive, and provide that in the event
  that the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law is amended to expand the
  indemnification permitted to directors or officers, the Registrant must
  indemnify those persons to the fullest extent permitted by such law as so
  amended.
  
           The Registrant has purchased and maintains insurance coverage under a
  policy insuring directors and officers of the Registrant against certain
  liabilities which they may incur as directors or officers of the Registrant,
  which may include coverage for liabilities arising under the Securities Act.
  
           Item 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
  
           Not applicable.
  
           Item 8.  EXHIBITS.
  
           The Exhibit Index immediately preceding the exhibits is incorporated
  herein by reference.
  
           Item 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.
  
           1.       The Registrant hereby undertakes:
  
           (a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
  a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
  
                    (i)      To include any prospectus required by Section
                             10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;
  
                    (ii)     To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                             arising after the effective date of the registration
                             statement (or the most recent post-effective
                             amendment therefor) which, individually or in the
                             aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                             information set forth in the registration statement.
                             Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or
                             decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
                             total dollar value of securities offered would not
                             exceed that which was registered) and any deviation
                             from the low or high and of the estimated maximum
                             offering range may be reflected in the form of
                             prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
                             424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
                             and price represent no more than 20 percent change in
                             the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
                             "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
                             effective registration statement;
  
                    (iii)    To include any material information with respect to
                             the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
                             the registration statement or any material change to
                             such information in the registration statement;
  
                    PROVIDED, HOWEVER that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if
                    the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form
                    F-3, and the information required to be included in a
  
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  4
  
                    post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
                    periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by
                    the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
                    Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the
                    registration statement.
  
           (b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
  Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
  registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
  offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
  fide offering thereof.
  
           (c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
  any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
  the offering.
  
       2. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
  determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
  Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
  Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual
  report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
  reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
  statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
  securities at that time shall be deemed to be in the initial bona fide offering
  thereof.
  
       3. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
  Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
  Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
  has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
  such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
  and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
  against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
  incurred or paid by a director, officer of controlling person of the Registrant
  in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
  director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
  registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
  has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
  jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
  policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
  adjudication of such issue.
  
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  5
  
                                     SIGNATURES
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
  Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
  of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
  Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
  authorized, in Westboro, Massachusetts, on this 15th day of June 2000.
  
                                        APPLIX, INC.
  
                                        By: /s/ Alan Goldsworthy
                                        -------------------------------------
                                        Alan Goldsworthy
                                        President and Chief Executive Officer
  
                                  POWER OF ATTORNEY
  
           We, the undersigned officers and directors of Applix, Inc. hereby
  severally constitute and appoint Edward Terino and Patrick J. Rondeau, and each
  of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each
  of them singly, to sign for us and in our names, in the capacities indicated
  below, the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all
  amendments to said Registration Statement and generally to do all such things in
  our name and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable
  Applix, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as
  amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby
  ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said
  attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and all
  amendments thereto.
  
           WITNESS our hands and common seal on the date set forth below.
  
           Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
  Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
  capacities indicated as of June 15, 2000.
  
  SIGNATURE                                  TITLE
  
  /s/ Alan Goldsworthy                       President and  Chief Executive
  ---------------------------                Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
  Alan Goldsworthy
  
  /s/ Edward Terino                          Senior Vice President, Finance,
  ---------------------------                Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
  Edward Terino                              (Principal Financial Officer)
  
                                             Director
  ---------------------------
  Jitendra S. Saxena
  
  /s/ Paul J. Ferri                          Director
  ---------------------------
  Paul J. Ferri
  
                                             Director
  ---------------------------
  Alain J. Hanover
  
  /s/ David C. Mahoney                       Director
  ---------------------------
  David C. Mahoney
  
  /s/ Peter Gyenes                           Director
  ---------------------------
  Peter Gyenes
  6
  
                                    EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  EXHIBIT
  NUMBER
  
  4.1(1)        Restated Articles of Organization.
  
  4.2 (2)       By-Laws.
  
  4.3 (3)       Specimen Certificate of Common Stock of the Registrant.
  
  5.1           Opinion of Hale and Dorr LLP.
  
  23.1          Consent of Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  
  23.2          Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
  
  24.1          Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages of
                this Registration Statement).
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  (1)  Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Registrant's
       Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-85688).
  
  (2)  Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the Registrant's
       Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-85688).
  
  (3)  Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant's
       Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 33-85688).