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Susan Salvesen
Chief Financial Officer
Unify Corporation
408-467-4500
http://www.unify.com

San Jose, CA, November 4, 1996 - Unify Corporation (NASDAQ:UNFY), today announced that it expects revenues and net income for the second fiscal quarter ended October 31, 1996 to be below expectations. Based on preliminary results, second quarter revenues are estimated to be approximately $7.2 million. The Company expects it will incur a pretax loss for the second fiscal quarter of approximately $1.8 million. The Company does not expect to record any tax benefit on this loss and expects to report a net loss of approximately $0.22 per share. Second quarter results will be released after the market closes on Monday, November 18, 1996.

"Revenue from our traditional lines of business was largely in line with expectations. However, we are seeing longer sales cycles and larger potential transaction sizes which adversely impacted our graphical product results this quarter. These factors make it difficult for us to predict the timing of these deals," commented Reza Mikailli, Chief Executive Officer. In addition, Unify also announced that James C. Fleming, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, is no longer with the company. Until a successor is named, Reza Mikailli will assume his duties.

This announcement 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 and the Company's reports on Form 10-Q and 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available on request from the Company.

Unify VISION AND VISION/Web
Unify's flagship product, 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. 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.

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