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Letty Ledbetter Unify Corporation (408) 467-4552 letty@unify.com

Under terms of the agreement, the Ministry of Light Industry will register previously unlicensed Unify software and, through a pre-paid license, distribute Unify VISION and VISION/WEB to organizations within the Ministry. Unify had previously signed agreements with the Shanghai Architectural Association and XinHua News Agency.

"I am pleased to see that leading companies like Unify are seeing concrete progress in selling and licensing legitimate software to China," said Mickey Kantor, U.S. Secretary of Commerce. "This Administration is committed not only to ensuring that U.S. intellectual property rights are protected but also to supporting U.S. companies like Unify increase exports to China."

"The agreement with the Ministry of Light Industry was reached in an environment of cooperation," said Reza Mikailli, president and CEO of Unify Corporation. "The agreements demonstrate our long-term commitment to provide technologically advanced products that will help China further develop its information technology infrastructure. As we continue to strengthen our relationship with the Chinese government, we believe the progress that Unify is making will be leveraged by other U.S. companies doing business in China."

Working with various PRC ministries and administrations, and in consultation with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Unify recently announced a software registration program under which software users in the PRC can register their previously unlicensed software.

Unify VISION and VISION/Web
Unify VISION, is designed to enable 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 and its companion product -VISION/Web- are the first advanced client/server development environments to generate Java code, without the need for Java programming, and to enable developers to build high-end transactional applications that run on both Web and non-Web clients and servers.

About Unify Corporation
Unify Corporation develops, markets and supports advanced application development environments for the development, deployment and management of high-end, business-critical client/server applications for intranets and the Internet. The Company's flagship product, Unify VISION, combines a powerful and scalable client/server architecture with a flexible and easy-to-use rapid application development technology. Additional Unify products include VISION AppMan, ACCELL/SQL and the DataServer product family.

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.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results may differ materially from the results described in such statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Final Prospectus dated June 14, 1996 filed on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the Company's initial public offering, a copy of which is available upon request from the Company.

TRADEMARK INFORMATION
Unify, Unify VISION, VISION/Web, AppMan, ACCELL/SQL, Unify DataServer, and the Unify logo are trademarks of Unify Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.