Open Text Announces Global Enterprise Content Management Event - LinkUp Phoenix 2004

New LinkUp Awards Honor ECM Customer Success Stories Around the World

Chicago, Il - 2004-07-07 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise, today announced that its worldwide Enterprise Content Management (ECM) user conference, LinkUp Phoenix 2004, will be held November 15-18 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona 2004.

"With the most comprehensive, end-to-end content lifecycle management technologies ever assembled, we re leading the way in Enterprise Content Management," said Tom Jenkins, Open Text CEO. "Our annual user conference, LinkUp 2004 promises to provide insight into new and innovative strategies, and how collaboration and content management are pivotal to addressing business issues such as compliance and return on investment."

Users across all organizations are being affected by compliance requirements and ECM is evolving into the critical enterprise application for addressing today's highly regulated business environment.

The management teams from Open Text and IXOS will present an ECM vision for the future and share an integrated product roadmap. These presentations will be augmented by a variety of sessions and demonstrations that focus on Open Text s latest success stories, business solutions and product developments, such as:

• Livelink Enterprise Server 9.5
• IXOS Suite for SAP
• Email management
• Livelink Flexible Storage Management
• Livelink Web Content Management Server

All Open Text customers and partners are encouraged to participate as speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. Participants at previous events have observed the following:

"The [LinkUp] event was organized, expertly coordinated and the program was extremely diverse! We are confident in our ability to demonstrate to customers the value of our combined solution and that our experience at the show will result in real business," Dr. Georgios Rimikis, Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi.

"As experienced Livelink users, LinkUp is very valuable for us. On the one hand, we can better assess the development of the tools, develop our own strategic planning, and prepare our users for it. On the other hand, we can derive economic benefit by learning from the experiences of other Livelink users and Open Text experts," Dr. Rudolf Simon, Executive Vice President, M+W Zander Facility Engineering.

A highlight of the conference is the presentation of the Global LinkUp Awards, in recognition of outstanding customer ECM solutions using Open Text technologies. Customers are encouraged to nominate their success stories, which will be judged according to the elements of collaboration and content essential to a comprehensive ECM solution.

Ten regional finalists, to be announced on Monday, October 4, will receive free airfare, accommodations and conference admission to LinkUp Phoenix 2004. At the conference in November, one finalist will be awarded the Global LinkUp Award for best ECM solution.

Open Text is now accepting customer entries for the 2004 Global LinkUp Awards. To register for LinkUp Phoenix 2004 and submit an entry for the Global LinkUp Awards, visit http://linkup-phoenix.opentext.com/.

About Open Text

Open Text is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports more than 17 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 67 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com

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For more information, please contact

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

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
1-847-961-0662
rmaganin@opentext.com