Unify Corporation Announces Unrivaled Commitment To Linux; Seven New Products Scheduled for Release in Next Four Months Will Be Certified for Red Hat Linux 5.2.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--Today Unify Corporation (NASDAQ:UNFY), a leading provider of Internet application server solutions for e-commerce, announced the launch of its family of Linux-based products to be certified on Red Hat Linux 5.2.

Beginning in mid-April, Unify will be launching a record seven new Linux solutions during 1999 in its Unify VISION, Unify ACCELL and Unify DataServer product families. Each of these leading products will extend the Unify brand to the large audience of Linux developers. Unify's Linux-based products continue the company's strategic move to have products that run on any system, anywhere, anytime. This represents an unmatched commitment to Linux and establishes Unify as the leading company offering Linux-based solutions with Red Hat, the market leader in Linux operating system software and services.

"Red Hat Linux has tremendous momentum as the fastest growing operating system for today's Internet servers, which demand the highest levels of scalability and stability to conduct business 24 hours a day, seven days a week," said Paul McNamara, Vice President of Strategic Relationships. "The combination of Red Hat Linux and Unify's Internet application solutions is a powerful mix for companies looking for reliable, effective and affordable solutions."

"Unify has been a leader in providing innovative technology solutions for nearly 20 years. Our products are the foundation of information systems and e-commerce activities around the world. Unify's products for the Linux environment extends our leadership position, allowing us to reach the rapidly growing Linux community," stated Reza Mikailli, Unify President and CEO. "Our customers have been very interested in Linux solutions, and our products offer the market one of the most extensive Linux portfolios anywhere."

About Unify VISION(R) AppServer and AppBuilder for Linux

Unify VISION AppServer for Linux is an open, standards-based Internet application server that enables IT organizations to bridge legacy, custom-built and packaged applications to create e-commerce and Internet solutions. Its universal client architecture enables users to access any application, anywhere, anytime. Unify VISION AppServer's Parallel Dynamic Scaleable Architecture delivers a high level of performance, availability and scalability by offering server replication, load balancing, fail-over and recovery, and publish-and-subscribe capabilities, all based on a high performance, fully asynchronous messaging architecture. Integrated application management services lower total cost of ownership by allowing organizations to effectively manage their applications from a single point of control.

Unify VISION AppServer's companion product, VISION AppBuilder, is an object oriented, repository-based component framework that enables developers to rapidly create and easily modify application components. Its powerful, pre-built components shield developers from the complexities of the underlying technology, enabling them to focus on the business components and processes that make up the heart of their applications.

Unify VISION AppServer and AppBuilder for Linux joins the acclaimed Unify VISION product family, which also supports Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT and all leading UNIX server platforms. Client support includes leading Web browsers running HTML or Java, and standard desktop applications. Unify VISION AppServer supports native database connectivity to all major RDBMS products including Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), Microsoft SQL Server (NASDAQ: MSFT), Sybase Adaptive Server (NASDAQ: SYBS), Informix (NASDAQ: IFMX), and Unify DataServer (NASDAQ: UNFY).

About Unify DataServer and DataServer ELS for Linux

Unify DataServer is a family of database management products that are designed to scale from small systems to large high volume on-line transaction processing (OLTP) systems. The products are designed so that the growth of user requirements over time can be quickly accommodated.

Unify DataServer contains several features found only in the most advanced database systems including on-line backup, synchronous and asynchronous disk transfers, stored procedures, and multiple-optimized access methods (direct key, hashing, record-to-record links, and b-tree). Its scaleable architecture is highly effective on both single and multi-processor platforms in small departmental systems or large on-line transaction systems.

At the entry level, Unify DataServer ELS is designed to be a high performance, easy-to-use product with minimal maintenance and memory requirements. When used with Unify VISION, Unify DataServer ELS allows developers to create graphical applications and migrate existing ACCELL IDS applications to client/server as needed.

Unify DataServer supports ANSI SQL standard and an industry standard ODBC/JDBC interface to provide a variety of database access methods that deliver high performance across a wide variety of environments and deployment configurations. Unify DataServer products support all major UNIX platforms and client/server networking environments.

About Unify DBIntegrator for Linux

Unify DBIntegrator is an ODBC and JDBC-based connectivity solution enabling a user's personal computer to access company business critical information stored in Unify DataServer. Unify DBIntegrator creates the necessary interface between the client's PC and the corporate database by providing a server-based data access solution featuring a thin client/server architecture with flexible deployment and superior connectivity to all Unify DataServer databases. The multi-tiered structure provides a universal desktop ODBC and JDBC client that communicates over LAN, WAN, or the Internet.

In using Unify DBIntegrator, standard Microsoft Windows applications, as well as custom applications developed with tools such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Sybase PowerBuilder, and Inprise Delphi, have access to the business-critical information stored in Unify DataServer databases. Through DBIntegrator's JDBC driver, customer applications and web sites built with Java-based products such as Microsoft J++ and Symantec Visual Cafe, gain high-performance access to the data as well.

About ACCELL/SQL and ACCELL IDS for Linux

The Unify ACCELL/SQL toolset combines with native interfaces to all popular server databases to bring dramatic productivity and performance advantages to the application development process. Developers gain the benefits of flexible, easy-to-use tools and an ANSI standard, SQL-compliant database interface -- with power to deliver even the most complex, mission-critical applications.

The Unify ACCELL Integrated Development System (IDS) brings the power of ACCELL to Unify's small foot-print, high performance database, Unify DataServer ELS. By utilizing the power of ACCELL with the world's fastest embedded database, Linux application solution providers can meet the performance, time-to-market, and price-point their customers demand.

About Linux

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Tovalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Linux is an independent POSIX implementation and includes true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, proper memory management, TCP/IP networking, and other features consistent with Unix-type systems. Linux benefits from a worldwide community of highly experienced programmers and technically savvy academics who have the access to enhance and improve the system. Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available for everyone.

About Red Hat(R) Software, Inc.

Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., where it builds and maintains the award winning Red Hat Linux operating system. Working in cooperation with a huge development team of research, academic, and commercial software developers over the Internet, Red Hat's goal is to build the most accessible and advanced operating system available anywhere. Red Hat Linux for Intel(R), Compaq AlphaServer(tm), and Sun SPARC(R) platforms continues to gain recognition in the computer industry. From 1996 to the present, Red Hat Linux was named InfoWorld's Product of the Year three times, was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's "Jolt" Awards, was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards, won the editor's choice awards from both the Linux Journal and Australian Personal Computing magazines, and won the "Just Plain Cool" award.

For more information about Red Hat Software and Red Hat products and technologies, please call 1-888-REDHAT1 or visit the Red Hat Linux portal at http://www.redhat.com.

About Unify Corporation

Unify Corporation provides Internet application server solutions that enable corporations to deliver e-commerce applications by integrating legacy, custom-built, and packaged applications with the Internet.

Unify's professional services organization provides a full range of services to help customers successfully deliver their e-commerce and application initiatives. Unify's product line includes Unify VISION AppServer, Unify VISION AppBuilder, ACCELL/SQL and the Unify 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 375,000 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.

Unify VISION, Unify VISION AppServer, Unify VISION AppBuilder, Unify ACCELL, ACCELL/SQL, Unify DataServer, and the Unify logo are trademarks of the Unify Corporation. Other brands or product names shown are trademarks of their respective owners.

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