Open Text and Causeway Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership to Enable Dynamic Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing with the e-Construction Environment

Agreement will bolster growth of online collaboration within the construction sector

London, UK - 2000-08-21 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), the leading provider of collaborative intranet, extranet and e-business applications, today announced that a construction industry-wide strategic partnership has been signed with Causeway Technologies Inc., a leading developer of e-commerce solutions for the global construction industry. Under the agreement, buildingwork.com, Causeway Technologies new e-construction portal, will use Open Text s flagship product Livelink®, a completely Web-based collaborative knowledge management solution, to power its Project Centre.

buildingwork.com is a comprehensive e-business portal that delivers integrated online supply chain and project cycle management solutions tailored to the specific needs of the construction industry. buildingwork.com seamlessly integrates a company s business applications with those of other project partners and suppliers, making the transition to e-business on any construction project fast and cost-effective. Users access the broad portfolio of Causeway s e-commerce applications through one of four Centres Project Centre, e-Procurement Centre, Resource Centre, and Information Centre. Powered by Livelink, buildingwork.com provides such robust e-business services as online publishing, virtual project workspaces, and project and content management, allowing members of the construction sector to collaborate and access current industry information anytime, anywhere.

Phil Brown, Chief Executive Officer of Causeway Technologies, said, We re delighted to be working with Open Text. The construction market is ripe for solutions such as buildingwork.com that can redefine the way companies manage their businesses and work together on a project with others. Being able to offer Livelink s collaborative capabilities through buildingwork.com is another trump card in our winning hand.

We are pleased to be a part of the buildingwork.com initiative. The tremendous synergy that underpins both companies will create an exciting and unique offering for all those working within and associated with the construction industry, said John Shackleton, President of Open Text. Through buildingwork.com, Livelink s powerful Web-based collaborative capabilities will greatly enhance the dynamics involved in construction projects and will enable firms to extend their market reach, providing access to new opportunities and solutions.

Causeway Technologies will also offer myLivelink , a collaborative knowledge portal for e-business applications that gives users a best-of-breed, personalized interface to Livelink. myLivelink enables individual users or groups to customize the interface layout of workspaces, including the internal and external content of most value. Designed for device independence and presentation interoperability, myLivelink makes use of Open Text s Open Interchange Architecture (OIA).

Recently introduced, the OIA provides an extensible framework designed to extend Livelink further, faster. Making use of XML and distributed component object models, the OIA ensures interoperability between front-end interfaces and devices, and back-end systems and applications, providing buildingwork.com with a highly innovative and scaleable environment for further developing e-business applications.

About Causeway Technologies

Causeway Technologies, Inc. is an NQBS-quoted US company, headquartered in the UK. It has worked extensively in partnership with UK construction clients and contractors to develop solutions to address the specific business process challenges of the industry. On 22 May the company unveiled buildingwork.com, its new Internet-based e-business solution for the construction industry. Its range of solutions includes SiteMan (cost & value management), Overture, ISEC and Kestrel (estimating and valuation). Causeway Technologies products already manage £5 billion worth of construction project on behalf of clients like Railtrack, The Highways Agency and Transco. For information, visit www.causeway-tech.com

About myLivelink

myLivelink is the leading collaborative knowledge portal solution for business. It connects users to information from within their enterprise business systems, intranets, extranets and global e-community all from a single Web interface. Using myLivelink, users can filter and access information from selected sources, set up virtual teams, collaborate on projects, and participate in discussions across the globe without leaving the desktop. A 'hub' for navigating and accessing a variety of information sources, myLivelink enables users to personalize access to corporate information, industry data, enterprise business systems, consumer links, e-mail, conferencing, calendaring, forms processing, news feeds, and more.

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 customised and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organisations 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, organisations, 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 Open Text

Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet and extranet ebusiness 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. It's product family called Livelink enables individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become one of the largest providers of Web based collaboration for e-business applications for e-communities of all types from intranets to extranets and public groups. The Livelink product family has over 4 million users in over 4,000 installations in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

Trademark

Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, b2bScene.com, and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation., Inc. 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 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, 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.

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