Hewlett Packard Chooses Open Text For Collaborative Knowledge Management Worldwide

Waterloo, ON - 1999-10-05 - 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, will be used by Hewlett-Packard Company s Consulting Division worldwide.

Livelink is currently in use by our Japanese consulting organization and we have chosen to provide the same capabilities across our worldwide team, said Ms. Margaret Parskey, Knowledge Management Program manager, HP Consulting. Livelink will provide our consultants with the ability to share information more readily, collaborate on new projects and reuse strategies and documents previously developed by co-workers.

Hewlett-Packard Consulting required a robust collaborative knowledge management system that enables users to share and leverage knowledge around the world. Livelink allows users to capture and reuse corporate knowledge, providing predictable high quality business results to clients.

Rapid innovation and leveraging knowledge both within and outside an organization, has become a critical factor in the overall success of a company, said Les McNeill, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, Open Text Corporation. HP is one of many industry leading companies that have realized the benefits of deploying knowledge management solutions.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services. HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.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