Open Text Participates At Oracle's OpenWorld 2000

Open World will include highlights of the integration between Oracle Portal and Livelink, Open Text s collaborative commerce application

Waterloo, ON - 2000-10-02 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), a worldwide leader of collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced that it will be participating in OpenWorld 2000. At the conference, Open Text will exhibit and offer information on its recently announced partnership with Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL).

Oracle OpenWorld 2000, the largest e-business conference of its kind, addresses the way today s companies are using Internet-based technologies and information to fundamentally change the way they do business. Industry experts, analysts and technicians, and Oracle customers and partners, executives and product experts gather to share their expertise of the e-business model one that helps companies expand into new markets; improve business process efficiencies, attract and retain customers, and exploit new business opportunities.

"Through our involvement in Oracle s OpenWorld 2000, Open Text plans to demonstrate the value of leveraging the Internet," said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. "Combined with Oracle Portal, Livelink s Web-based collaborative architecture manages vast amounts of critical business information, making it available in real time from a single point of access. Livelink also enables employees, customers, partners and suppliers to share knowledge and collaborate online."

OpenWorld will present a keynote address by Sohaib Abbasi, Senior Vice President, Tools Division, Oracle Corporation. The keynote includes a reference and description of the integration between Oracle Portal and Livelink, achieved by leveraging myLivelink®, a personalized user interface to Livelink.

In addition to exhibiting at the conference, Open Text will be delivering a presentation on the integration between Livelink and Oracle Portal®. A recent member of the Oracle® Portal Partner Program, Open Text further extends the market reach of Livelink, its collaborative e-business platform. By integrating Livelink with Oracle Portal, users gain a single point-of-access to Livelink s comprehensive platform for collaboration, content management, data warehousing, business intelligence, application integration and mobile computing.

Pery added, "By harnessing the power of the Internet, enterprises no longer need to be geographically bound to dealing with the same companies. From a single user interface, Oracle Portal and Livelink, literally, open up a world of opportunities to innovative enterprises looking for a competitive edge."

About Oracle Portal

Oracle Portal (the next generation release of Oracle WebDB) combines an extensible portal framework with self-service Web publishing to form the infrastructure that e-businesses need to build and manage enterprise-class portals. Oracle Portal is a browser-based software environment for building and deploying enterprise portals. It provides a secure, manageable framework for delivering access to distributed software services and information resources. The easy-to-use portal interface offers an organized, personalized view of the business information, web content, and applications needed by each user. Self-service publishing features eliminate webmaster bottlenecks by allowing end users to post and share any kind of document or web content with other users anywhere in the world. The deployment architecture is optimized for scalability and security, and allows for centralized administration of all portal services through a browser. In addition to its core portal development and management features, Oracle Portal provides an extensible framework for integrating applications and business information. The framework is based on Oracle's unique portlet technology. Portlets are reusable interface components that provide access to web-based resources. Any web page, application, business intelligence report, syndicated content feed, hosted software service or other resource can be accessed through a portlet, allowing it to be personalized and managed as a service of Oracle Portal.

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 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.

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For more information, please contact

Greg Secord
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2408
gsecord@opentext.com