b2bScene Finds Growing Demand for e-Business Community Platform

Momentum Gained from New Hosted Applications and Services

Waterloo, ON - 2000-08-31 - b2bScene , the premier provider of e-business community platform solutions and a Division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced plans to launch four hosted community services in response to growing demand and initial customer success.

b2bScene's new online services and new industry portal site extend its leadership in the delivery of hosted business-to-business collaboration.

New Customers, including APT LLC, a joint venture with BF Goodrich Co., which will deliver community services to the polymer industry and Prism eSolutions which will provide communities for the accreditation of ISO standards join Agilent Technologies and e-Steel, as customers that have chosen b2bScene to deliver hosted services for internal and external collaboration. e-STEEL, the leading business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for the global steel industry, is using b2bScene as an extranet for an international e-commerce initiative.

These customers are taking advantage of several new service offerings that will deliver solutions to all sizes of corporate customers and B2B marketplaces. Built within an advanced hosting infrastructure, these services provide the highest levels of performance, security and reliability. b2bScene's Instant line of services enables organizations to quickly create a secure intranet, extranet or project team.

b2bScene's Enterprise class services include hosting for intranets and extranets with specific functionality and scalability requirements.

"b2bScene unites the enormous potential of the B2B technology market with the momentum of the Application Service Provider model for technology hosting. The initial demand we've experienced for our unique blend of online services signals an opportunity for tremendous growth", said Kirk Roberts, President of b2bScene. "Success in delivering solutions to customers and interacting with best-of-breed partners confirms our e-business community platform as the technical leader in this emerging market. "

"b2bScene has quickly established itself as a comprehensive platform for building dynamic business-to-business communities," said Ian Campbell, Vice President of Nucleus Research. "Nucleus believes using hosted services can offer a high value path to developing and deploying comprehensive web-based applications. The unique value of b2bScene is the company's ability to meet the needs of all levels of customers while maintaining the high levels of service, reliability and security."

About b2bScene

b2bScene is the premier online solution provider for business-to-business collaboration. Its e-business community platform includes 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 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 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.

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.

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Hugh Scholey
Account Executive
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Greg Secord
VP, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
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