FOR RELEASE ON JULY 15, 1996

Contacts		Letty Ledbetter PR Manager Unify Corporation (408) 467-4552 letty@unify.com										Susie Reeves Sun Microsystems (415) 577-0688 sreeves@batnet.com

SAN JOSE, Calif., -- July 15, 1996 -- Unify Corporation (NASDAQ:UNFY) today announced that Sun Microsystems Computer Company has selected the Company as a strategic software development partner for Sun's Catalyst Program during 1996 and 1997. The partnership means that Unify and Sun will systematically share business plans to closely align activities in product development, sales and marketing for the three-tier Internet client/server market.

"We rely on strategic third party partners like Unify to provide application development and management environments for our customers building three-tier enterprise applications for the Internet and Intranet," said Reed Hornberger, group manager, software development marketing, Sun Microsystems Computer Company. "What makes this partnership strategic is a common market and technology focus. Our mutual customers will now benefit from the delivery of unique solutions engineered for our target markets and delivered in a timely manner."

Partnership Specifics

The strategic partnership will tightly integrate Sun and Unify technologies, resulting in powerful 4 GL solutions for high-end, object-oriented, distributed network and Internet applications. The two firms share a view that vertical markets such as telecommunications and banking/financial services have growing requirements for the development of high-end, scalable applications, and they plan to coordinate their efforts to support joint customers like, AirTouch, Merrill Lynch, NYNEX, Pacific Bell and U.S. Order.

As a Sun strategic Catalyst Partner, Unify will be invited to participate in many of Sun's strategic sales and marketing initiatives and executive forums. Unify will also have global access to Sun distribution channels, through such activities as conferences for ISVs, and access to Sun customer mailing lists. Sun will further support Unify with access to Sun marketing executives and engineers, the availability of loaner equipment for events and development activities, and the right to use the Sun Strategic Partner logo.

"I'm pleased that Sun recognizes Unify's leadership in providing an advance development environment for the development, deployment, and management of high-end scalable applications," says Reza Mikailli, president, Unify Corporation. "Our joint efforts enable us to provide superior solutions to our customers, especially those in the telecommunications, banking and financial services industries."

Unify recently announced version 3.0 of its flagship product Unify VISION™ and a companion product Unify VISION/Web™. 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.

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 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.

About Sun

Sun Microsystems Computer Company is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of network computing systems and is a division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Recognized for quality and innovation, the company's SPARC™ workstations and multiprocessing servers each hold the No. 1 UNIX" marketshare position. These systems are used primarily by businesses, educational institutions and governments worldwide for technical, commercial, industrial, and software development applications.

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.

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