b2bScene.com Launches Collaborative e-marketplace for Engineers

b2bScene.com partners with Wilbanks Technologies to provide engineering application and content expertise

WATERLOO, ONT. - 2000-03-16 - b2bScene.com , a division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced its collaborative commerce e-marketplace specifically for the engineering industry. b2bScene.com has partnered with Wilbanks Technologies, a leading systems integration and consulting firm and a member of the Open Text Affinity program, to provide engineering applications, specialized content and domain expertise for its engineering trading communities. Open Text and Wilbanks share a number of customers across many industries including Parsons Co., Lucent Technologies and Shell Services.

In partnering with Wilbanks, b2bScene.com will offer the premier engineering e-marketplace for collaboration between engineers, architects, contractors, and suppliers. This e-marketplace enables members to share ideas, documents and drawings over the Web in a secure collaborative environment.

Wilbanks has created Team Vu, an integrated suite of engineering applications, including PDM and CAD/CAM functionality, which are combined with b2bScene.com's specialized industry content and collaboration services (www.businesswebsource.com). With Team Vu, team managers and engineers can now tackle the challenges unique to online engineering design and manufacturing by allowing them to manage projects over the Web from start to finish.

"For the first time, engineers have access to a secure environment that offers advanced engineering applications and end-to-end collaboration on projects from design through construction and into the maintenance phase," said Kirk Roberts, President, b2bScene.com. "Other engineering e-marketplaces concentrate on only one stage of the collaborative process and provide little value-added content. But with BusinessWeb's industry-specific news and Wilbank's powerful engineering solutions, b2bScene.com and TeamVu truly simplify the design-to-build process, enabling engineers to work through an entire project online, and adding value with categorized content resources specific to their interests and industry."

"A unification of team thinking will be created through the use of accessible, organized information and free discussion of ideas in real-time. b2bScene.com's specialized e-business applications, content and hosted services combined with TeamVu, our Web-based engineering application, enable project teams to collaborate in ways that were never before possible," said Tom Wilbanks, President, Wilbanks Technologies.

The engineering e-marketplace is b2bScene.com's second industry marketplace offering, and the engineering community from b2bScene.com and Wilbanks is one of over 1,800 communities that b2bScene.com is developing with key partners.

About Wilbanks Technologies Corporation

Wilbanks Technologies Corporation (WTC) (www.wilbankstech.com) sells high-end Collaborative Knowledge Management software, solutions and integration services to the Architectural, Engineering, Construction (AEC) and Manufacturing market. The company also develops proprietary software applications that increase the functionality and performance of off-the-shelf Knowledge Management software.

About b2bScene.com

b2bScene.com, a division of Open Text, 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.

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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

William Apostol
Director of Operations
Wilbanks Technologies Corp.
410-771-0892

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