FOR RELEASE ON JULY 17, 1996

SAN JOSE, Calif., -- July 17, 1996 -- Unify Corporation (NASDAQ:UNFY) today announced its support for a new industry initiative to develop Web-based management standards. The industry-wide effort is led by five companies including Unify partner BMC Software and Cisco, Compaq, Intel and Microsoft. Announced earlier today, the initiative is intended to provide Web-based management standards that will allow administrators to use any Web browser to manage disparate systems, networks and applications.

"By automating the task of developing manageable Web and non-Web applications, Unify's VISION/Web and VISION/AppMan products encourage the use of standards for direct application management," said Scott Canali, Vice President of Marketing, Unify Corporation. "We applaud this initiative to build on those standards, which will result in increased customer demand that all distributed applications be centrally manageable."

"We are excited to have Unify, one of our key partners, support this initiative," said Wayne Morris, Director of Corporate Strategy, BMC Software. "Having an application development tool like VISION that automates the development of management-ready applications and integrates with solutions like BMC Software's Patrol, provides customers the ability to write Web or non-Web applications that can be managed through standard Web browsers."

Unify recently announced version 3.0 of its flagship product Unify VISION™ and a companion product Unify VISION/Web™. VISION, with VISION/Web, is the first advanced client/server development environment to generate Java™ code, without the need for Java programming, and enable developers to build high-end transactional applications that run on both Web and non-Web clients and servers.

About Unify VISION

Unify VISION is an advanced client-server application development environment for the development, deployment, and management of high-end scalable applications. It combines a powerful client/server architecture with a flexible and easy-to-use rapid development technology. VISION enables organizations to develop, deploy and manage business critical applications with increased return on investment by providing the benefits of low cost of entry, rapid time-to-market and low cost of ownership.

VISION, with its companion product VISION/Web is the first advanced client/server development environment to generate Java code, without the need for Java programming, and enable developers to build high-end transactional applications that run on both Web and non-Web clients and servers. VISION's advanced, dynamic partitioning, ensures that large, complex applications take best advantage of network and system resources to deliver optimal performance. VISION's proactive event notification, and failover/fault tolerance through replicated partition services, provide maximum scalability and flexibility. VISION is the only high-end development environment centered around a graphical class browser and offers a highly intuitive and flexible transition to object-oriented programming which encourages reuse and ensures the benefits of fully object-oriented development.

VISION includes the industry's leading application management capabilities for high-end applications, allowing administrators to centrally manage distributed applications without any effort on the part of developers. VISION automatically generates hundreds of key events and performance metrics and includes VISION/AppMan to automatically connect to enterprise management products from BMC Software, HP, Microsoft, and Tivoli.

About Unify Corporation

Unify Corporation develops, markets and supports advanced application development environments for the development, deployment and management of high-end, scalable, client/server applications.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Unify has direct sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Japan, with a network of distributors, VARs, OEMs, and systems integrators worldwide. Unify has over 350,000 users worldwide, including leaders in telecommunications, financial services, commercial industries and government. Unify product and service information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.unify.com.

Unify, Unify VISION, VISION/Web, AppMan and the Unify logo are trademarks of Unify Corporation. Java and other Java-based names and logos are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and refer to Sun's Java Technologies. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.