Open Text to Offer Globally Scalable Intranet Corporate Solutions on Microsoft Platform

Industry-Leading Intranet Application to Address Corporate Market Using Microsoft Products, Servers, Technology

New York, NY - 1997-04-15 - Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) announced today at the AIIM show that Livelink, its industry-leading Intranet application suite, is adopting Microsoft products, servers and architecture as a primary platform for the largest and most demanding corporate environments. This means that enterprises of any size can benefit from Open Text Livelink's ability to manage and facilitate complex collaborative processes on a global scale while leveraging the proven power of the Microsoft® BackOffice platform.

Livelink will fully support Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, Microsoft Windows NT®, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, SQL Server , and Microsoft BackOffice. The Microsoft platform will enable Livelink users to realize a significant decrease in the cost of system deployment and management. In addition, Livelink will use ActiveX technology to provide even greater ease of use of Livelink via Web browsers.

Livelink Intranet provides document management, visual workflow, project collaboration and searching, all fully accessible over intranets via a Web browser. Livelink is currently being used in over 100 corporations, including many in the Fortune 500, to support business-critical processes on a global scale.

"The high performance/price ratio that can be achieved using the Microsoft platform makes it ideal for the enterprise-wide deployment of Livelink Intranet," said Abe Kleinfeld, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development for Open Text. "The market is acknowledging this in the most dramatic way: by adopting Microsoft solutions at an unprecedented pace. By aggressively supporting the Microsoft platform, Open Text significantly expands the market for our innovative intranet application software, and our users get a world-class environment for managing their world-wide business processes."

Rich Noffsinger, Industry Marketing Manager at Microsoft commented, "Open Text is a recognized leader in bringing to market innovative, business-ready Intranet application software that enables corporations to 'put the Web to work' in ways that bring immediate competitive advantage. Combining the Microsoft BackOffice framework with Livelink Intranet simplifies the deployment and administration of enterprise-scale Intranet applications. We look forward to working with Open Text to bring global businesses more functional and scaleable solutions."

Full support for Microsoft products and technology will begin immediately with support for NT Server, SQL Server, and BackOffice.

Release Disclaimer

This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements, specifically those concerning future performance, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are 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 year ended June 30, 1997, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1997, and December 31, 1997. Note to Editors: Livelink Pinstripe, Livelink 8, Livelink Search, Livelink Library, Livelink Workflow and Livelink Project Collaboration are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

For more information, please contact

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