Livelink is the Driving Force Behind Roland Berger & Partner's "BRAIN"

Open Text s Knowledge Management Solution Opens the Doors of Communication Increasing Collaboration, Cooperation and Innovation

Waterloo, ON - 2000-08-24 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), a worldwide leader of collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced that Roland Berger & Partner uses Livelink® as the foundation for its enterprise-wide collaborative knowledge management solution. Forming the underpinning for the Berger Research And Information Network (BRAIN), Livelink provides a secure on-line environment for sharing corporate ideas and expertise.

Roland Berger and Partner is a European world leader in top-management consultancy. Providing support on strategic, organizational, and process-related issues, the firm delivers innovative strategies, business processes, leadership structures and systems. A full-service research institute, Roland Berger Research, draws up market analyses for all sectors of industry throughout the world.

All factors responsible for generating a long-term corporate success, such as creativity, innovation, process efficiency and the quality of both products and services, depend on corporate and business critical information being at the users fingertips everywhere and at all times, says Dirk Reiter, Partner of Roland Berger & Partner.

Positioning Roland Berger s corporate knowledge and resources in the right place at the right time, Livelink s Web-based platform allows users in twenty different countries worldwide to access the BRAIN interface. Open Text s collaborative knowledge management solution is a key component of BRAIN a platform designed for the exchange of research and collaboration on projects across time zones. Using any standard Web browser, consultants can connect to all internal information repositories containing organizational knowledge, internal expertise, best practices and skills databases regardless of location.

Livelink s push technology ensures that internal or external information can be directly channeled to all users via e-mail or personalized home pages, reducing the time and money spent on searching, transferring, warehousing, printing and distributing information.

One of the biggest benefits of Open Text s collaborative knowledge management solution is flexibility in the exchange of corporate intelligence, asserts Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. Livelink s collaborative project workspaces and online forums promote discussion and encourage contribution among Roland Berger consultants. Collaboration across the globe in a secure online environment empowers Roland Berger to offer its clients better, more innovative business management strategies.

About Roland Berger & Partner

Roland Berger & Partner is the largest top management consulting organization in Europe. There are over a thousand members around the world developing innovative strategies, business processes, management structures and efficiency optimizing programs for organizations and public institutions. Roland Berger & Partner has branches in 23 countries and achieved a turnover of about DM 600 million in 1998.

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.

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.

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Copyright © 2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink 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.

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This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink 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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Greg Secord
Open Text Corporation
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gsecord@opentext.com