Sun Valley Foods Chooses b2bScene To Host Collaboration For Supply Chain Management

Division of Cargill Adds b2bScene Hosted Services to Improve Product Development and Distribution

Waterloo, ON - 2001-04-17 - b2bScene , a Division of Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC), today announced it has been chosen to host Supply Chain Management (SCM) collaboration services for Sun Valley Foods, a Division of Cargill, an international marketer, processor and distributor of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products.

Sun Valley Foods, as part of Cargill s business partner network, will use services from b2bScene's Collaborative Business Platform (CBP) to promote collaboration between distribution partners and suppliers. The solution includes a secure hosted extranet combined with a personalized portal interface and industry content services. Centralized document management ensures mission critical information is immediately accessible by partners, and project workspaces allow on-the-fly team assembly to facilitate new product packaging, marketing and research initiatives.

b2bScene s Collaborative Business Platform offers Sun Valley Foods an integrated and powerful set of collaborative services to manage people, information and processes in real-time over the Web. By sharing knowledge and experiences, distributors and suppliers can eliminate costly bottlenecks, speed time to market and increase overall transaction flow. The platform includes Open Text s Livelink® to provide a central Web-based information repository, project team workspaces, workflow processes and reporting tools. All services are delivered on a secure, high-performance, reliable hosting infrastructure.

"Critical success factors for the Sun Valley Foods division of Cargill include supply chain efficiency and global reach," said Phil Preston, e-Business Development Director, Sun Valley Foods. "Internet collaboration is a key component of our supply chain solution, and we selected b2bScene's hosted platform to deliver immediate results."

"As Sun Valley Foods strives to provide a range of high quality, competitively priced products and services, its need for vendors and suppliers to collaborate instantly, across various time zones is crucial," said Dan Latendre, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, b2bScene. "b2bScene s Collaborative Business Platform complements SCM technologies to improve the quality of products and time to market."

John Hughes, a senior analyst with Delphi Group, states "Hosted services for supply chain collaboration offer significant advantage to organizations looking to rapidly deploy solutions. This model of community-based collaboration represents one of the strongest areas of next generation business-to-business technologies."

About b2bScene

b2bScene, a Division of Open Text Corporation, provides a rich technology platform for hosted business collaboration. The Collaborative Business Platform , powered by Open Text's Livelink®, serves as the infrastructure for developing sophisticated online solutions to support business-to-business initiatives. b2bScene partners with specialized solution providers to design, build and support custom collaborative applications. Using b2bScene solutions, employees, partners and customers work together to reduce time to market, lower costs and build stronger relationships.

About Sun Valley Foods

Sun Valley Foods is an international chicken and food manufacturing company, with UK facilities in Hereford, Wolverhampton, Blaenavon and Worcester, and Orleans in France. Its current commitment to both acquisition and organic growth across Europe has been reflected in the purchase of companies in the UK, Belgium and Holland over the past 18 months, incorporating food processing, import and distribution operations into the business, and strengthening the Sun Valley supply chain. Sun Valley produce for European retail, food service and fast food companies, as well as for customers elsewhere in the world.

About Livelink

Livelink is a highly scalable 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 provides collaborative commerce solutions for e-business that enable users to extend and build CRM, SCM and ERP applications and allow them to work together within and across organizations. Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and 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 solution 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. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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Copyright (C) 2001 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, Open Text and b2bScene 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 and b2bScene. 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, 2000 and December 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

Julie Hause
Public Relations Coordinator
b2bScene
519-888-7111 ext. 2223
jhause@b2bscene.com

Vanessa Gibson
Contact for Sun Valley Foods
Storm Communications
+44 (0) 1494 670444
vanessa@stormcom.co.uk

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