Open Text and KPNQwest Announce Agreement to Provide ASP Services

Livelink to be offered to more than 100,000 businesses

London, England - 2000-03-29 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), a leading provider of collaborative intranet, extranet and e-business applications, and KPNQwest (NASDAQ & ASE: KQIP), the leading pan-European data-communications company created from a joint venture between Qwest Communications International Inc. and KPN Telecom BV, announced today, at the ASP Summit (www.asp-summit.com) conference in London, a joint services agreement that heralds the advent of a major Application Service Provider (ASP) offering for European businesses. The signed joint services agreement (JSA) provides Open Text s Livelink® collaborative software through KPNQwest s pan-European macro-capacity fibre-optic network and European CyberCentres.

KPNQwest has twelve European CyberCentres and is in the process of constructing mega-CyberCentres of over 10,000 square metres the equivalent of two football pitches close to key business centres in Europe. These CyberCentres are built on KPNQwest s high-capacity fibre-optic EuroRings network, which delivers the high-speed broadband bandwidth required to run sophisticated business-to-business applications, such as Livelink. Livelink is a true Web-based and open-architecture application, ideal for the ASP model, ensuring rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser.

KPNQwest and Open Text will jointly market and brand the hosted Livelink solution to KPNQwest s installed customer base of more than 100,000 businesses. This service will also be offered to the Open Text installed customer base in Europe, which exceeds one million users. By opting for an ASP model, KPNQwest and Open Text will be uniquely positioned to deliver fast, cost-effective and efficient collaborative software solutions to a broader customer base, especially in the SME sector.

Open Text is pleased to partner with KPNQwest to pursue the area of ASP offered software, says John Shackleton, President of Open Text. We believe this is an important new channel for Open Text to broaden its reach to a larger part of the business-to-business market by making Livelink accessible to small and medium sized businesses. This announcement with KPNQwest is the realization of the ASP strategy Open Text has been developing over the past six months.

Our agreement with Open Text marks an opening salvo in the way we believe that quality software solutions will be delivered to European businesses. Our joint offering, underpinned by the massive bandwidth of our EuroRings network and the secure environment of KPNQwest CyberCentres, makes a compelling proposition for businesses as they intensify the use of the Internet to conduct their business, said Jack McMaster, President and CEO of KPNQwest.

In an ASP model, software is hosted in the secure environment of a CyberCentre with access to the bandwidth necessary for fast, efficient business-to-business and corporate communications. Users access the software via secure broadband connections or via the public Internet.

KPNQwest customers will also have access to use myLivelink , the customizable interface to Livelink which provides a collaborative (c-commerce) information portal that can unite its hosted application services. This will give KPNQwest customers a view into multiple information sources including Livelink, and will allow them to personalize the interface to meet their individual requirements.

About Livelink

Livelink is a highly scaleable platform for the development of intranets, extranets and e-communities. Its richly-featured enterprise services include document management, virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser.

About KPNQwest

KPNQwest is a leading facilities-based, pan-European provider of data-centric Internet protocol-based services to business customers. It is deploying a technologically advanced fibre-optic network connecting 46 cities throughout Europe, enabling the company to provide a broad range of high-speed, high-quality data-centric Internet protocol-based services and other advanced telecommunications services. The company is one of the largest business ISPs in Europe with operations in 14 countries. KPNQwest has 12 CyberCentres and plans a further 6 mega-CyberCentres , of which two are extensions of existing CyberCentres , on its high-capacity fibre-optic network to provide Web-hosting, application sharing and telehousing services. Web site: www.kpnqwest.com.

About Qwest

Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q - news) is a leader in reliable, scalable and secure broadband Internet-based data, voice and image communications for businesses and consumers. The Qwest Macro Capacity® Fiber Network, designed with the newest optical networking equipment for speed and efficiency, spans more than 24,500 miles in North America. In addition, KPNQwest (Nasdaq: KQIP - news), Qwest's European joint venture with KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company, is building and will operate a high-capacity European fiber optic, Internet-based network that will span 9,150 miles when it is completed in 2001. For more information, please visit the Qwest Web site: www.qwest.com.

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.

Trademark

Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, myLivelink, 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 deployment of Livelink with KPNQwest s fibre-optic network, 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 Open Text s customers and other risks detailed from time to time in Open Text s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus for Open Text 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, 1999 and December 31, 1999. Forward-looking statements are based on management s beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and Open Text does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management s beliefs or opinions change.

This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the written prospectus relating to the initial public offering and the related registration statement filed by KPNQwest with the SEC, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including failure to complete our network as planned and on time, failure of European Internet use to increase as expected, significant competition, rapid technological change, KPNQwest s ability to achieve Year 2000 compliance, and adverse changes in the regulatory environment. KPNQwest undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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KPNQwest
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Margaret E. Dobbin
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Open Text Corporation
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