Are you certain of that?  I believe that support for Applixware is now handled
by VistaSource.  http://www.vistasource.com/services/support

Plus the mailing lists are still up and active and Eric Ding (one of the
employees) still responds to questions on it.

> My only objection to ApplixWare is that it is no longer supported
> (saw that in a PR story a few months ago).  I use StarOffice quite
> a bit, and my only complaint was its lack of Advanced Statistics,
> which I have needed only once in my life.  The Bonus: it is supported
> by Sun.