b2bScene.com Hosts Private Online Community for RBC Dominion Securities Whistler 2000 Conference

Online Community Enables Business-to-Business Collaboration between Organizers and Attendees

Whistler, BC - 2000-04-05 - b2bScene.com , a division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced the creation of an online community supporting RBC Dominion Securities Whistler 2000 New Millennium, New Services conference. For the first time, this high-profile annual conference has a private online community (whistler2000.b2bScene.com screenshot) in which business attendees can share information about conference proceedings, discuss agenda topics, and schedule meetings with each other in real time.

RBC Dominion Securities required an online environment that would guarantee a secure, rich collaborative experience for conference attendees. Unique user accounts and profiles provide each attendee with personalized access to information and resources surrounding the event. This event-specific community features include group scheduling, news channels, discussion forums, and focused industry content.

b2bScene.com's hosted community will enhance the conference attendees experience," said David Fowler, Managing Director, Global Equities, RBC Dominion Securities. We wanted an online resource to improve conference communications, encourage the flow of ideas and help us to maintain the relationships and information after the event is completed.

The RBC Dominion Securities community showcases how b2bScene.com's services help project teams capitalize on transitory business opportunities, said Kirk Roberts, President of b2bScene.com. The collaboration within b2bScene.com communities makes b2b interaction far more compelling than simple transactions, adding an enormous amount of value.

About Whistler 2000 New Millennium; New Services

Whistler 2000 New Millennium; New Services is an annual spring technology conference hosted by RBC Dominion Securities at the Chateau Whistler resort in Whistler, BC. This year s program, held April 5 and 6, features two full days of presentations by the most influential technology and communications speakers in Canada, including senior executives of BCE, Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems.

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.

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This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of b2bScene.com, 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, 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

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