Livelink MeetingZone Replaces Travel with Web-based Meetings

Open Text Shipping Real-Time Virtual Team Collaboration Technology to Achieve Greater Efficiency and Productivity

Las Vegas, NV - 2001-11-07 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSE: OTC) today began shipping Livelink MeetingZone , powerful new real-time collaboration for Livelink®, the world's most widely deployed team collaboration software platform. MeetingZone meets the increased demand for real-time conferencing capabilities that enable team collaboration without requiring costly and time-consuming travel.

MeetingZone was introduced today to the worldwide install base of Open Text at LiveLinkUp 2001, Open Text's annual user conference held this week at The Bellagio in Las Vegas.

"The productivity and quality of work generated by any organization is primarily driven by team collaboration," said John Shackleton, President of Open Text. "MeetingZone facilitates greater team collaboration, regardless of location, and extends the value of Livelink by enabling organizations to capture meeting detail to build on, rather than repeatedly duplicate, their work."

Unlike stand-alone real-time collaboration tools where all the participants input data is lost after the meeting ends, MeetingZone is tightly integrated feature of Livelink, an end-to-end collaborative knowledge management platform. MeetingZone lets customers conduct meetings on demand, in real-time from their existing Web browser in a dynamic workspace. As part of Livelink, MeetingZone does not require additional software installations and enables meeting participants to easily retrieve project-related information and automatically capture meeting information in the Livelink repository.

Initial customers that have evaluated MeetingZone include: Agfa-Geavert, General Electric, Pfizer, Primavera, a US government agency, and Veridian.

Customer reaction to the MeetingZone launch, include:

"My company needs to stop wasting time on travel, meet now and get things done using tools like MeetingZone."

"Most of the Web meeting products I looked at require high speed network connections. MeetingZone runs over dial up lines."

"Using MeetingZone with our Livelink installation, we are able to keep all our communications, instant messaging and data securely inside our firewall."

According to Tony Roberts, project leader of Nortel Networks, an Open Text customer: "Dynamic, interactive online collaboration is a key attribute of Nortel's high performance integrated project teams. The virtual team environment, where the intellectual capital of talented personnel can be captured and levered across the organization, significantly impacts product time to market. Given the current cost-alignment pressures facing many companies today, the value proposition of integrated, real-time online project workspaces is stronger than ever before."

MeetingZone includes a variety of features and functions that make it easy to schedule and conduct virtual team meetings, including:

• access from standard Web browsers by Livelink and non-Livelink users, enabling organizations to extend real-time collaboration to customers, suppliers, consultants and other partners;
• simple notification, including e-mail invitations, and secure password-protected meeting participation;
• meeting tools such as instant chat, whiteboard, shared text pad, URLs, notes, tasks, agenda and application sharing that are immediately accessible to all meeting participants; and
• one-click access to Livelink content and services during real-time meetings and easy capture of meeting details.

"Organizations require easy and effective collaboration tools for their workers, customers and suppliers," said Mark Levitt, research director at IDC. "MeetingZone is a good example of how real-time collaboration can enhance the virtual work space, especially when the real-time exchange is captured and transformed into a searchable knowledge asset."

About Livelink

Livelink is a highly collaborative commerce and knowledge management 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. For more information, visit www.opentext.com/livelink/.

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 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.

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This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink and Livelink MeetingZone 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, June 30, 2000, and June 30, 2001, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2000, December 31, 2000 and March 31, 2001. 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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Open Text Corporation
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Public Relations
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