Lucent Technologies Uses Open Text's Livelink For Collaborative Document Management

Waterloo, ON - 1999-09-28 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX; TSE:OTC), the leading provider of collaborative knowledge management and corporate portal solutions, announced today that its flagship product, Livelink®, is being used by Lucent Technologies.

With Livelink, Open Text provides a solution that enables workflow, collaboration, information retrieval and document and file management. With Livelink, users will be able to easily access and share information, and collaborate as members on project teams across the enterprise.

"This announcement further demonstrates that the world's leading telecommunications companies are using Livelink to reap the benefits of a collaborative strategy," said Les McNeill, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, Open Text Corporation. "Global 2000 companies everywhere continue to recognize the value of collaborative knowledge management to gain competitive advantage and accelerate innovation across the enterprise."

About Lucent

Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com.

For more information, please contact

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

Sarah Burns
High Road Communications
(416) 368-8348
sburns@highrd.com