Around the World in Eight Days Open Text Hosts LiveLinkUp 2000 And KM FORUM 2000

Conference attendees will witness the unveiling of Livelink 9 and learn how Open Text's collaborative commerce platform manages critical e-business knowledge

Waterloo, ON - 2000-10-12 - Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX - news; TSE:OTC - news), a worldwide leader of collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced that, spanning an eight day period in October, it will host its annual Users' Conference in North America and an international symposium in Europe, bringing together some 2,000 users, partners, customers and industry experts from around the world.

LiveLinkUp 2000, Open Text's fifth annual worldwide Users' Conference, will be held October 28-31 in San Antonio, Texas. Open Text will also host its International Knowledge Management Symposium, KM Forum 2000, from October 24-25 in Paris, France. Over 2000 users are slated to attend the conferences to hear how today's most innovative enterprises manage, create and share corporate knowledge using Open Text's collaborative commerce applications.

"Increasing business pressures have forced organizations to look beyond their own four walls to create strategic partnerships. These partnerships require more than a simple level of information sharing," said Alan Weintraub, Research Director, Gartner. "Collaborative commerce (c-commerce) creates an environment that encourages extended collaboration across the new virtual supply chain, enabling enterprises to take advantage of new and better opportunities."

Attendees of LiveLinkUp 2000 will witness the unveiling of Livelink® 9, the newest version of Open Text's proven e-business platform for collaborative commerce. In addition to Livelink 9 product presentations and demonstrations, LiveLinkUp 2000 will include sessions with industry experts, training tutorials, valuable networking opportunities, as well as guest speakers from leading organizations around the world, like Kevin J. Northover of Merrill Lynch. Conference sponsors include ESPS, Formark, Kofax Imaging Products, b2bScene, Burke Consortium, Adobe, Cardiff, PureEdge and Morningstar.

"'No Boundaries' is not only this year's theme at LiveLinkUp 2000, it reflects the ideal business model envisioned by Open Text," said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. "With collaborative commerce in mind, we have designed Livelink to help create an open business model one that brings together companies, employees, customers and partners. By providing e-business applications that break down geographical barriers, Open Text empowers innovative enterprises to achieve dynamic collaboration across a supply chain community."

Taking place at the Palais des Congres in Paris, France, Open Text's 3rd International Knowledge Management Symposium, KM Forum 2000, will include workshops and product demonstrations, as well as conferences and exhibits delivered by key players in the knowledge management arena. Those attending the conference will gather to communicate and collaborate with industry experts and to learn about the competitive and organizational value of implementing knowledge management solutions.

For additional information regarding LiveLinkUp 2000 and KM Forum 2000 conference events and registration, please visit http://www.opentext.com/events/.

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 e-business 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. Its 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 (C) 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.

Release Disclaimer

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, June 30, 1999, and June 30, 2000, 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.

For more information, please contact

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