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Contacts		Letty Ledbetter PR Manager Unify Corporation 800/759-8888 ext1872090 letty@unify.com										Lisa Cradit BMC Software, Inc. 713/918-8800 lisa_cradit@bmc.com

BOSTON, MA. -- September 16, 1996 -- Unify Corporation (NASDAQ: UNFY), a leading provider of client/server software solutions for the development, deployment, and management of high-end, business critical applications for intranets and the Internet, and BMC Software, Inc., the world's leading provider of application and data management tools, today unveiled an extended partnership agreement designed to provide complete application management for custom applications. Under the terms of the worldwide agreement, which also outlines joint selling and marketing initiatives, Unify will resell BMC Software's PATROL management suite -- including the PATROL Console, the PATROL Agent, and PATROL Knowledge Modules (KMs)-- for the Unify VISION and DataServer product lines. Unify will also resell BMC Software's PATROL KMs for other products in Unify environments.

Unify and BMC Software currently deliver best-of-breed solutions for the complex development and management requirements of high-end transactional applications that run on both Web and non-Web clients and servers. These automated solutions provide a comprehensive, enterprise-wide management view, increase application availability and performance and reduce administrative and training costs.

"This partnership represents an exciting opportunity for both Unify and BMC," said Daja Phillips, Director of Partner and Industry Marketing, Unify Corporation. "This is a unique solution that only BMC and Unify can offer. Together we offer a complete event and performance management solution for custom applications that begins at the development stage, utilizing VISION's automatic collection of over 400 events and 140 performance metrics, and continues on through to deployment, where PATROL exploits this instrumentation in managing the applications and their underlying resources. Our customers now have the option of using the leading data and application management solution to monitor and manage database, application, and operating system functions for every node on a system from a single console. Customers will be able to ensure that application performance requirements are being met. This end-to-end management puts our customers in control of their applications, increasing system productivity and overall user satisfaction."

"As the leading application management vendor, BMC Software recognizes the increasingly strategic role that application development tools are playing in building business-critical client/server applications for the enterprise, including intranets and the Internet. We chose to develop KMs for Unify because they are in the unique position of having built-in instrumentation for events and metrics at the development tool level," said Wayne Morris, Director of Corporate Strategy for BMC Software. "We're excited to be the only vendor to offer complete end-to-end applications management for custom, as well as packaged applications."

"This agreement continues to position Unify ahead of its competition as the leading development tool for application management," said Chet Geschickter, principal at Hurwitz Group, Inc. "It delivers the most comprehensive application management solution on the market by providing a full solution, while continuing to provide the option of seamless integration to tools like Tivoli and other frameworks. For BMC, it builds on the PATROL product's broad arsenal of Knowledge Modules for the enterprise, and enhances PATROL's ability to manage in-house, custom-built applications."

NATURE OF THE AGREEMENT

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

UNIFY VISION & VISION/WEB

VISION 3.0 is fully integrated to demonstrate the power of VISION and BMC Software's PATROL application management product suite.

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ABOUT UNIFY CORPORATION

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