b2bScene.com Partners with E-Certify Becomes the First PKI Enabled Secure Collaborative e-marketplace

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Digital Certificate Technology Authenticates Community Members and Offers Secure b2bTransactions

Waterloo, Ontario - 2000-03-09 - b2bScene.com , a division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), and E-Certify Corporation, a secure e-business solutions provider, today announced a partnership to provide authentication, member validation and secure transaction solutions for all collaborative commerce activities occurring within the b2bScene.com e-marketplace.

b2bScene.com will utilize E-Certify's security solution to issue digital certificates and electronic user profiles, which identify buyers and sellers online, and ensure private, secure communications and transactions. This authentication allows community members to widen the circle of trusted partners with which they conduct e-business and e-commerce activities within b2bScene.com's public and private communities. With digital certificates and a PKI foundation, b2bScene.com community members will collaborate in a private, secure and verifiable e-marketplace. E-Certify is a secure e-business solutions provider for Global 2000 companies such as MCI, Bank of America, TD Waterhouse Europe, and Credit Union Central British Columbia (CUCBC).

"Secure and authenticated interactions are a must for b2b e-markets," said Hadley Reynolds, Research Director at The Delphi Group, Boston, MA. "By incorporating real-time validation of buyers' and sellers' identities, as well as encryption of transaction documentation and content within the exchange, Open Text's b2bScene.com is laying important groundwork for the new generation of creative business transactions over the Internet."

"Security and member validation are critical components of collaborative commerce," said Kirk Roberts, President, b2bScene.com. "By partnering with E-Certify, b2bScene.com ensures that all community members know who they are doing business with and that all business to business collaboration is occurring in a completely secure and encrypted environment."

E-Certify was chosen by b2bScene.com for the company's open standards-based PKI services and best-of-breed technology integration services for secure e-business. Through this partnership, b2bScene.com will give free digital certificates to its first 5000 members in order to speed adoption in the marketplace. These digital certificates provide a single credential that verifies the identity of a member, authorizes access to the appropriate resources, secures communications and digitally signs a transaction. Digital certificates ensure a trusted collaborative exchange for communities within b2bScene.com's e-marketplace.

"E-Certify understands the issue of protecting and guaranteeing transactions on the Web is paramount," said Ed Anderson, Chairman and CEO of E-Certify. "We are excited about our partnership with b2bScene.com because it provides a trusted exchange within their online trading communities and promotes the importance and necessity of security in this new marketplace."

b2bScene.com Division and E-Certify will also collaborate on enhanced services including payment processing, digital receipts and the extension of secure transactions to wireless devices, such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other handheld devices.

About E-Certify

Founded in 1998, E-Certify is a secure Internet solutions provider. E-Certify uses a proven 'rapid delivery' approach and a combination of security consulting, applications integration and development, and managed services to certify that both the network and the application are secure. The Company focuses on standards-based products and services that offer corporations the latest security technologies. Customers have the flexibility to outsource security technologies with managed services for authentication, authorization, certificate infrastructures, PKI, firewalls, VPNs, and monitoring. E-Certify has regional offices and hosting facilities throughout the US and Canada. More information is available on the Web at www.e-certify.com.

About b2bScene.com

b2bScene.com is the first cross-industry, collaborative commerce e-marketplace offering a collection of b2b services to small, medium and large organizations. In addition to buying and selling goods and services online, our e-marketplace promotes e-business interaction and collaboration between buyers and sellers, facilitating dialogue between parties, automating business processes and managing the wealth of information around each transaction. b2bScene.com leverages a variety of industry leading applications including Open Text's leading collaborative business applications to achieve dynamic interaction between an organization's employees, business partners and customers in both public and private trading communities.

About Open Text

Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Today, Open Text solutions allow individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on projects, share ideas and accelerate innovation to the fastest possible speed. We call it HyperInnovation and it is already a major factor in the success of leading Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become the largest supplier of collaborative, Web-based e-business applications for the enterprise, with over 3.5 million users in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

Trademark

Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, b2bScene.com, and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Release Disclaimer

This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of b2bScene.com, the deployment of Livelink and myLivelink by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus for the Company's initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, Form 10-K for the years ended June 30, 1997, June 30, 1998, and June 30, 1999, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1998, December 31, 1998, March 31, 1999, September 30, 1999, and December 31, 1999. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.

For more information, please contact

Ruby Qurashi
Vice President Marketing
e-Certify
703.476.7511
rubyq@e-certify.com

Edilka Cruz
Sterling Hager Inc
617-926-6665 ext 321
edilka@sterlinghager.com

Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com

Mia Wedgbury
Senior Partner
High Road Communications
416-368-8348
mwedgbury@highroad.com