b2bScene Selected by Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. to Host Project Collaboration

Internal Project Teams Collaborate in Two Secure Hosted Communities

Waterloo, ON - 2000-07-06 - b2bScene, a division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced that Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd., a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home, has chosen b2bScene to host two virtual team projects for internal collaboration.

HP Canada required rapid creation and deployment of collaboration services for managing large internal projects. b2bScene provided project collaboration based on Livelink®, the leading enterprise application for dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and business communities. b2bScene's hosting services deliver a secure, reliable, high-performance solution for hosted Livelink projects, with a collection of integrated e-business applications, content and commerce services.

"HP Canada's choice of b2bScene is evidence of the growing demand for collaboration services in a hosted model," said Dan Latendre, Vice President of Business Development & Marketing, b2bScene. "Dynamic collaboration is proven to deliver greater efficiencies and cost savings by connecting geographically dispersed project teams from around the world, and b2bScene makes these services available instantly to any organization."

"Developing b2b infrastructure that is comprehensive and reliable, and at the same time delivering it at Web speed, is a daunting challenge for all e-business managers," said Hadley Reynolds, Research Director at The Delphi Group, Boston, MA. "By hosting collaborative communities, managing content and automating business processes, Open Text s b2bScene can offer improved time-to-benefit in the world of e-markets."

About b2bScene

b2bScene, a division of Open Text Corporation, is a premier Online Solution Provider offering a suite of hosted services to stimulate and promote successful business-to-business interaction and collaboration between an organization's partners, customers and employees within public and private online business communities. A collection of integrated community, content, collaboration and commerce services help b2bScene's customers improve the quality, speed and efficiency of each transaction, process and interaction through deeper and stronger business-to-business relationships.

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.

About Livelink

Livelink is a highly scaleable e-business application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include 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 e-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.

Trademark

Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, b2bScene, 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, 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, 1999, December 31, 1999 and March 31, 2000. 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

Hugh Scholey
Account Executive
High Road Communications
416-368-8348
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Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com