Open Text Recognizes Excellence in Enterprise Collaboration and Innovation

Waterloo, ON - 2001-11-13 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX; TSE: OTC), a worldwide leader in delivering collaborative commerce solutions, announced the winners of the first annual LiveLinkUp Awards at Open Text's annual user conference, held last week in Las Vegas, Nevada. More than 1000 people participated in the LiveLinkUp 2001 conference, which featured in excess of 200 sessions and introduced Livelink® 9.1, the newest version of Open Text's end-to-end, Web-based, collaborative knowledge management platform.

Open Text also successfully launched Livelink MeetingZone , a dynamic, real-time collaborative environment for online meetings and conferences. "With organizations re-evaluating corporate strategies, MeetingZone provides a cost-effective and favorable alternative to travel," said John Shackleton, President of Open Text. "Open Text took its first sales order for MeetingZone during the user conference last week, an indication of the current demand for the product."

Open Text honored the winners of the first annual LiveLinkUp Awards. Celebrating Open Text's 10th anniversary this year, the LiveLinkUp Awards recognize the customers and partners who have contributed, through their own innovation and versatility, to Open Text's success over the past 10 years.

The Judges:

These awards were made possible through the hard work of our dedicated panel of judges, made up of independent industry experts:

• Ian Campbell, Vice President, Nucleus Research
• Wayne Gudbranson, President & CEO, Branham Group Inc.
• Richard Medina, Principal Consultant, Doculabs

The Categories:

Honoring Open Text customers and partners, the LiveLinkUp Awards recognize solutions and applications based on the Open Text family of products. Awards celebrated excellence in 7 categories:

• Collaborative Solution a solution that provides improvements in the way a customer creates virtual teams, demonstrating improvements in overcoming traditional challenges posed by organizational and geographic boundaries
• Document Management Solution a solution that demonstrates increased efficiencies in document development, management and archiving, including a reduction in the manual processes required for these functions
• Records Management Solution a solution that effectively mitigates risk in the management of corporate records
• Library & Catalog Management Solution - a solution that enhances an organization's ability to protect and leverage its intellectual assets
• Business Function Application a packaged "product" application based on any one or combination of Open Text products that satisfies a particular business need, such as new product development, brand management, e-learning, pharmaceutical research, etc.
• Value Added Utility Application, an application that creates a value-added component to any one or combination of Open Text products
• Open Text Affinity Partner a partner offering, professionally displayed at the Partner Exhibit, that is aligned with Open Text's strategic direction and complements any one or combination of Open Text products

The Award Winners:

Collaborative Solution Causeway Technologies
Causeway Collaboration is designed specifically for the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Enabling clients, engineers, designers, contractors, suppliers and manufacturers to access project documents in through a secure hosted environment, Causeway's solution demonstrates significant improvements in overcoming the traditional challenges posed by organizational and geographic boundaries.

Document Management Solution Vision Service Plan (VSP)
VSP created the Livelink Document Importer; a solution designed to automate the storage of VSP contracts and renewals within Livelink. Demonstrating increased efficiencies, the solution automates manual processes for document management and archiving, while ensuring consistent quality and availability of key documents

Records Management Solution Conoco Conoco's Livelink for Records Management (iRIMS) solution effectively manages risk in the organization and supervision of corporate records. Barcoded transactions facilitate secure access to records, while ensuring authorization.

Library & Catalog Management Solution Canadian Heritage Information Network
The Virtual Museum of Canada, developed by the Canadian Heritage Information Network, has created a branded collection of content developed by museums to assist audiences to navigate distributed resources. BASISPlus databases enhance their ability to protect and leverage these intellectual assets.

Business Function Application Novare
Novare has extended the functionality of Livelink to create a complete product lifecycle automation and portfolio management application. The application accelerates new product development; helps organizations manage geographically dispersed product development teams and addresses the need to reduce unnecessary spending on research & development.

Value Added Utility Application PVA (Professional Value Added)
PVA has developed an application with a value-added component to Livelink. The company's Face to Face application empowers users by integrating Livelink with the AVAYA collaborative video software for meeting and conference participants.

Open Text Affinity Partner Causeway Technologies
As a Solution Spotlight Exhibitor, Causeway attracted numerous conference attendees to its demonstration of Causeway Collaboration, an outstanding adoption of Livelink technology that delivers the highest levels in customer solutions to the construction industry, increasing business opportunities for Open Text and providing innovative new ways to bring value to customers.

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.

Trademark

Copyright (C) 2001 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, MeetingZone 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 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.

For more information, please contact

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

Lisa Dekker
Public Relations
Open Text Corporation
1+519-888-7111 ext. 2473
519-888-0677
ldekker@opentext.com