Hewlett Packard Chooses Livelink WorkSMART From Open Text To Create Global Knowledge Centre

Livelink WorkSMART Enables Global Knowledge Sharing With More Than 100,000 Customers and Partners By Using Dynamic XML Publishing Over the Web

Chicago, IL - 1999-05-05 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX; TSE:OTC), the worldwide leader in Web-based collaborative knowledge management application software, announced today that Hewlett Packard's Enterprise Systems Division has chosen Livelink® WorkSMART® to manage its global development and distribution of HP-UX learning products and marketing materials.

WorkSMART, a member of the Livelink product family, enables Hewlett Packard's partners and customers around the world to access real-time technical documentation, such as HP-UX OS documents, specifications and other learning products. Livelink WorkSMART is used to provide content management for the development and publishing of this information in SGML and XML and provides dynamic publishing on http://docs.hp.com. This allows partners and customers to view the latest information over the Web.

"As the knowledge management market matures, more and more Global 2000 companies are seeing the value of systems that can make intelligent use of XML content in a Web environment," said Dan Latendre, Vice President, Product Marketing, Open Text Corporation. "Livelink WorkSMART solves the problems inherent in managing massive amounts of information distributed across an enterprise. It removes the complexity involved in locating, retrieving, authoring and controlling information resources and has enabled Hewlett Packard to provide 100,000 business partners and customers with instant access to the latest, most up-to-date information in a Web environment."

This announcement further strengthens Open Text's relationship with Hewlett Packard, building on a previously announced deal in Germany. In Germany, Hewlett Packard and Open Text have signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement where Hewlett Packard will not only be an official Livelink distributor, but will also be offering HP webSET, a new solution for collaborative project management based on Livelink.

About Livelink and WorkSMART

Livelink is a highly scalable, collaborative knowledge management application for intranets. Livelink's richly-featured enterprise document management, virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services are tightly integrated into an off-the-shelf application that is easily customized and extended to fill a broad range of information and knowledge management needs. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure very rapid deployment, requiring just a standard Web browser on users' desktops to access its full functionality. Livelink runs on HP*UX, Microsoft Windows NT® and the leading UNIX platforms and supports most popular relational database management systems.

Release Disclaimer

Livelink and WorkSMART are registered trademarks and Open Text, HyperInnovation and Toward HyperInnovation are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. 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 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 and June 30, 1998, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1998, December 31, 1998 and March 31, 1999. 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

Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com

Sarah Burns
High Road Communications
(416) 368-8348
sburns@highrd.com