Chicago, IL - 2002-06-12 - Open Text™ Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, today announced that Livelink-based software will support the major construction of three new schools in Hong Kong.

The English Schools Foundation in Hong Kong has selected Open Text Affinity partner, Causeway Technologies to deliver document management and project collaboration capabilities throughout every stage of the construction project. Anticipated to last thirty-five months, the construction project will be supported by Causeway Collaboration™, a new generation collaboration software solution built on Open Text's Livelink and developed specifically for the construction industry.

In commenting on Causeway's selection, the English Schools Foundation said, "Rapid task response, reliability, security, ease of file transfer, user-friendliness, functionality and Causeway's strong relationship with Open Text are the important criteria which drove the decision to select Causeway Collaboration."

The largest international education foundation in Asia, the English Schools Foundation makes a vital contribution to Hong Kong's role as an international center. The foundation provides high quality and cost-effective primary and secondary education through the English language.

"The English Schools Foundation is committed to excellence in all its forms, including its choice of software and project plans for building three new schools in Hong Kong," said John Shackleton, President of Open Text. "Our goal is to save clients time and money through the combination of Causeway's domain expertise and Open Text's global leadership in collaboration and knowledge management."

"We are looking forward to helping the English Schools Foundation overcome the traditional challenges posed by construction management. Causeway's Livelink-based industry solution delivers a powerful set of tools for end-to-end return on investment and further validates our strategy to partner with best-of-breed international organizations like Open Text," said Phil Brown, CEO of Causeway Technologies.

Livelink is the leader in collaboration and knowledge management for the global enterprise. Its richly-featured enterprise services include virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling and information retrieval services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser. For more information, visit www.opentext.com/livelink/.

Causeway Technologies, Inc. (Causeway) is a market-leading supplier of enterprise and web based collaboration and e-commerce solutions. Causeway's solutions provide proactive support for the key project processes throughout the construction life-cycle on over £10billion of projects and cover design management, estimating and procurement, cost and value management, project collaboration and enterprise document management. The company employs around 100 people and is head quartered in High Wycombe in the UK with supporting offices in Maidstone, UK and Los Angeles, USA. For further information, visit www.causeway-tech.com.

Causeway Collaboration provides a single collaborative solution for enterprise intranets, online construction communities, departmental solutions, project management and individual task management. It is powered by Open Text's Livelink® enterprise collaboration solution and extended by Causeway to provide construction industry specific best-practice work flows, document handling, search capabilities and push and pull technologies designed to put the users in control of their information needs. Causeway Collaboration can be deployed to suit an organisations specific requirement. As a hosted extranet, Causeway Collaboration provides a comprehensive and secure hosted collaborative environment that can be used for document sharing, process management and knowledge capture, allowing all members of the project team, wherever located, to access project drawings, programmes and reports. Project messaging, memos, requests for information and discussion forum facilities ensure that communication takes place quickly and transparently. Causeway Collaboration can alternatively be implemented as part of internal IT infrastructure, customised to support best practice process and corporate requirements intelligent document, information and knowledge collaboration across the enterprise. Workflows developed within Integration Enterprise can be integrated with ERP, and other back office systems, to deliver transparency, auditability and management of individual tasks, departmental processes, internal and external projects and enterprise wide initiatives from within a single environment.

Since 1991, Open Text Corporation has delivered innovative software that brings people together to share knowledge, achieve excellence, deliver innovation, and enhance processes. Its legacy of innovation began with the successful deployment of the world’s first search engine technology for the Internet. Today, as the leading global supplier of collaboration and knowledge management software for the enterprise, Open Text supports five million users across 4,500 corporations in 31 countries and 12 languages throughout the world. As a publicly traded company, Open Text manages and maximizes its resources and relationships to ensure the success of great minds working together. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
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Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
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