SGI Manufacturing Organization Selects Open Text's Livelink To Enable Knowledge Management Via Extranet

Collaboration with International Supplier Expected to Significantly Decrease Manufacturing Cycle Time

Chicago, IL - 1999-06-01 - Open Text Corporation, (NASDAQ:OTEX, TSE:OTC) the leader in Web-based collaborative knowledge management software, today announced that Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:SGI) has chosen Livelink® for a knowledge management application via an international extranet. The extranet will enable the company's manufacturing organization to more efficiently exchange ideas and documents with a key international supplier, and is expected to significantly reduce manufacturing cycle time.

SGI, a leading supplier of visual computing and high-performance systems, plans to deploy Livelink to manage the extranet as a solution to a complex information-sharing system that previously utilized email. Before Livelink, email limited the efficiency and effectiveness of communication between SGI and its partner. As documents were developed, collaborating via email became a slow and cumbersome process. With Livelink, SGI and the supplier will be able to view the same online version of documents and conduct workgroup discussions in real time. As a result, SGI anticipates that documents will be drafted more quickly, and with the speed of the decision-making increased, the entire manufacturing cycle time will ultimately be reduced, saving time and money.

"With Livelink, we expect to significantly shorten our manufacturing cycle and improve communication with an important partner," said Peter Williamson, Manager, Supply Chain Strategy, Desktop Operations, SGI. "One of the key elements of a successful supplier relationship is the ability to fully leverage the combined capabilities of the two companies. We expect Livelink to be an enabling technology for us in that respect."

"An increasing number of our customers are using Livelink to facilitate improved communication and collaboration through extranets," said Dan Latendre, Vice President of Product Marketing, Open Text Corporation. "SGI's use of Livelink as an extranet solution to share knowledge and work together across diverse platforms and geographic locations will enable the company to streamline their information-sharing processes and reduce manufacturing costs."

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Livelink is a registered trademark and Open Text, HyperInnovation and Toward HyperInnovation are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. SGI is a trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink by customers, the integration of LiveLink into customer environments and the performance of LiveLink in customer environments. 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 integration of products into customer environments, 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 Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1998, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1997, December 31, 1997, March 31, 1998 and September 30, 1998, and SGI's SEC reports, including the reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March. 31, 1999 and Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1998. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and neither Company undertakes any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.

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