Contacts:

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

"Unify has long been able to address the need of our valued enterprise customer's," said Jan Silverman, director Internet Business Development, HP. "As an established leader in application management for high-end applications, and the recent introduction of VISION 3.0 and VISION/Web, Unify will be able to provide additional value by helping these same customers rapidly move to Internet computing."

"We are pleased to expand our relationship with Hewlett-Packard ," said Reza Mikailli, president and CEO, Unify Corporation." As Unify and HP continue developing products which enhance the ability to develop and deploy high-end, Web-enabled client/server applications, we are confident that our combined resources and existing infrastructure will be of value to our current customers and those looking to accelerate the migration of high-end business-critical applications to the Web."

In July, Unify announced version 3.0 of its flagship product Unify VISION™ and a companion product Unify VISION/Web™. VISION and VISION/Web 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 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 VISION/Web are the first advanced client/server development environments 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 includes the industry's leading application management capabilities for high-end applications, allowing administrators to centrally manage distributed applications without any effort on he part of developers. VISION automatically generates hundreds of key events and performance metrics and includes VISION/AppMan to automatically connect to systems management products from BMC, HP, Microsoft, and Tivoli. As a member of the HP/Tivoli Application Response Measurement (ARM) initiative, Unify VISION applications are management ready and allow end users to measure and control the total performance of their business-critical distributed applications.

ABOUT HEWLETT-PACKARD
HP is the world's leading supplier of open enterprise computing and is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer revenue of $25.3 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. HP has been delivering PA-RISC (2)-based business computers since 1986 with high reliability, data integrity, data availability and systems availability.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 102,300 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year.

Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

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.

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.