Paris, France - 2003-05-14 - Open Text™ Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and knowledge management software for the global enterprise, today announced it will extend the capabilities of its content integration platform Livelink Doorways™ to FileNet and Hummingbird repositories. The solution will let customers link FileNet and Hummingbird systems to Livelink, bridging content and tools across repositories and providing centralized access through Livelink. Open Text is demonstrating the product's new capabilities this week at LiveLinkUp™ Paris, its European user conference.

Livelink Doorways, which also offers access to Documentum repositories, and a variety of file systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX NFS and Oracle iFS, enhances collaboration by bringing together all of a company's content, no matter where it resides, and making it available to users in Livelink. With Livelink Doorways, customers can continue to leverage existing repositories, especially those that are too difficult or costly to upgrade, by providing access through Livelink.

By supporting FileNet and Hummingbird users with Livelink Doorways, Livelink acts as a central point for enterprise content management and collaboration, while providing easy access to the data and elements residing in FileNet Content Services and Hummingbird DOCS Open/DOCS Fusion systems. Open Text expects to begin offering the new capabilities this summer. Liquent, Inc., a global leader in regulatory publishing, intelligence, and intellectual property solutions, is providing the integration technology for various systems that are accessible through Livelink Doorways.

"In a tough economy, the biggest challenge for CIOs is finding a way to gain value from existing technology investments, and avoiding the pitfalls of upgrades that are too challenging or too expensive," said Anik Ganguly, Executive Vice President of Products at Open Text. "When it comes to a company's content repository, the added risk is that vital information is locked in an inaccessible system that doesn't grow with the business. Livelink Doorways unlocks that content to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration among teams throughout a company."

In its latest version of Livelink Doorways, Open Text has also added new features, including an SDK, which will allow customers to create their own connectors for other systems not already offered by Open Text.

How Livelink Doorways Works: With Livelink Doorways, other content sources are mounted as containers or "doorways" within users' Livelink workspaces. Folders, directory structures and documents from these content sources are navigable from each doorway within Livelink, using the source's native hierarchical structure and respecting each user's permissions to access such content. Livelink Doorways lets users:

• Navigate, display, and view versions, renditions and attributes of documents and compound documents from other repositories, using Livelink as the single, integrated Web-based interface.
• Add and delete documents and folders from other repositories.
• Create aliases in Livelink for content from other sources, so that it can be referenced as collaboration objects in Livelink discussions, tasks, workflows, project workspaces, news channels and more.
• Create copies in Livelink for content from other sources, and refresh those copies as needed. Search external repositories directly from Livelink.
• Attach documents from any repository to approval and review processes implemented using workflows in Livelink.
• Access content in any repository from Livelink collaborative workspaces, so that users can build out these spaces with all of the needed content, wherever it's located.

For more information on Open Text's LiveLinkUp Paris, go to: http://www.opentext.com/livelinkup/2003-Paris/index.html.

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/.

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' 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 fifteen million seats across 10,000 corporate deployments 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.

Copyright © 2003 by Open Text Corporation. LIVELINK, LIVELINK DOORWAYS, LIVELINK MEETINGZONE, LIVELINKUP and OPEN TEXT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation in the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and/or other countries. This list of trademarks is not exhaustive. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, company names, brands and service names mentioned herein are property of Open Text Corporation or other respective owners.

FileNet is a registered trademark of FileNet Corporation.

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DOCS Open and DOCSFUSION are registered trademarks of Hummingbird USA Inc.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink and Livelink MeetingZone™ by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers and other risks 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 years ended June 30, 1996, June 30, 1997, June 30, 1998, June 30, 1999, June 30, 2000, June 30, 2001, and June 30, 2002, and 10-Q for the quarters ending September 30, 2002 and December 31, 2002. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change.

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