b2bScene Delivers Custom Business Content and Search Services to Communitech's Corporate Members

Technology Association Integrates Premium Content, Industry News, Events and Resources

Waterloo, ON - 2000-07-18 - b2bScene , a division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced it has partnered with Communitech, a technology association servicing the cities of Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo. Communitech's corporate membership consists of over 175 of Canada's highest profile technology firms including AT&T Canada (Nasdaq: ATTC), IBM Canada (NYSE: IBM) and Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM). Communitech is working with b2bScene to deliver advanced online community, collaboration and content services to its growing association membership over the Web.

With the help of b2bScene, Communitech has already implemented an integrated business content solution for its members. This solution includes access to industry content in 10 different industry segments, integrated industry search services and a specialized search index of all Communitech member sites.

Communitech realized the value of focused business content for improving business-to-business interactions within their community. The next step in this partnership is to create an online marketplace where Communitech members can collaborate and conduct e-commerce online, says Dan Latendre, Vice President of Business Development & Marketing, b2bScene.

As a technology association, we are always looking for ways to best utilize technology to improve the quality of our membership services. The content services provided by b2bScene allow us to provide high quality business services and resources quickly and easily with minimal impact on our technology group, says Greg Barratt, President of Communitech.

b2bScene provides highly specific, categorized content services that empowers knowledge workers to quickly find valuable information, said Ian Campbell, Vice President of Nucleus Research. By enhancing b2b interaction with services such as access to industry content and integrated industry search services, b2bScene offers a unique value to their customers.

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 Communitech

Communitech Association is an industry association representing the technology community of Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener and Waterloo. The Communitech Association acts as a unified voice on behalf of its membership with a mandate to drive the activity needed by the technology community to achieve critical mass, by collectively doing what individual organizations cannot do on their own.

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
hscholey@highroad.com

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