Open Text and IXOS to Unveil Roadmap Strategy to customers in Three European Venues

Top Management to Address Record Number of Attendees at LinkUp 2004 Conferences in London, Paris, Munich

Chicago and Munich/Grasbrunn - 2004-03-30 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) and IXOS SOFTWARE AG (NASDAQ OTC: XOSYY, FWB: XOS) today announce that key Open Text and IXOS executives will detail strategic direction and technology roadmap plans at their European user conference, LinkUp Europe 2004, amid a record number of attendees who will have hands-on access to the full range of the companies Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. This is the first LinkUp Conference since the successful completion of Open Text s tender offer for IXOS.

Open Text and IXOS together are now the world's largest provider of ECM solutions and we are eager to begin sharing our strategic vision for the future of ECM with our customers, said Tom Jenkins, CEO of Open Text.

Management teams representing both Open Text and IXOS will be on hand to jointly present details on the companies first fruit integrations, latest technology advances and upcoming additions to what is already the broadest ECM portfolio available today.

Together we are well poised to leverage the growing ECM market, said Robert Hoog, CEO of IXOS. The combined strengths and market leadership of IXOS and Open Text enable us to meet the full spectrum of organizations ECM needs. This clear advantage continues to draw intense interest from customers and partners. We expect this to be the largest European event in either company s history.

The European LinkUp conferences, scheduled for April 26-29, bring together customers, partners, employees, press and industry analysts for keynotes, technical and business sessions, and hands-on demonstrations. Jenkins and Hoog will kick off the events in London and Munich with keynotes outlining Open Text s and IXOS strategic direction and highlighting initiatives around compliance, collaboration and managing the exponential growth of business content.

The Paris event will feature strategy keynotes by Open Text President John Shackleton, and Simon Khosla, general manager of Sales Operations in EMEA and LA for IXOS Software.

Anik Ganguly, executive vice president of products at Open Text, and Hartmut Schaper, chief technology officer at IXOS will discuss how the Open Text family of products will evolve into the most comprehensive collaboration and content management solutions to address the full spectrum of content lifecycle management.

Specific dates for LinkUp Europe are April 26-27 in London, April 28 in Paris, and April 28-29 in Munich. For more information about keynote presentations, breakouts sessions and conference venues, visit: http://www.opentext.com/linkup/.

To register for a conference in your local city, visit: https://linkup-europe.opentext.com.

About Open Text and Livelink

Open Text is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Since launching the world's first Internet search engine and the first Web-based enterprise collaboration and knowledge management software, Open Text has continued its leadership in providing global enterprises with innovative and effective solutions. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports fifteen million seats across 10,000 deployments in 31 countries and 12 languages worldwide. Open Text s flagship product, Livelink® seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organizations transform information into knowledge to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. For more information on Open Text and Livelink, go to: www.opentext.com and www.opentext.com/livelink.

About IXOS

IXOS SOFTWARE AG is a leading vendor of solutions for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). IXOS enterprise solutions help businesses achieve efficient management and display of web information, optimization of business processes, and secure, long-term archiving of all business documents in a highly-scaleable document repository. More than 2 million users around the world already work with ECM solutions from IXOS. Information about IXOS is available at www.ixos.com.

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For more information, please contact

Anastasia Bullinger
Director, Public Relations
IXOS Software
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Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
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mdobbin@opentext.com

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
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