Paris, France - 2003-10-09 - Open Text™ Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX, TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink®, the leading collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise, today announced that Air Liquide, the world leader in industrial and medical gases, has signed an agreement to purchase Livelink, further extending the organization’s existing implementation.

Air Liquide first adopted Livelink in 1999 within one of its French business entities. Today, the Group is extending its implementation to incorporate all the affiliates and subsidiaries of the European branch of the Group. Ultimately, Open Text’s Livelink solution will be at the disposal of 12,000 users for knowledge management, content management and collaboration.

Air Liquide selected Livelink to support its strategy for improving the efficiency and streamlining of its information systems. As the key infrastructure, Livelink will enable Air Liquide to optimize its processes for structuring and disseminating content, documentation and knowledge internally within the group.

“The implementation of a single, unique platform for content and knowledge management will enable us to efficiently integrate silos of information and to facilitate the widespread standardization of best practices within the Air Liquide Group,” said Etienne Hubert, Chief Information Officer, Air Liquide Group.

“We are pleased that the Air Liquide Group has selected Livelink to support its widespread business efforts,” said Mike Farrell, Executive Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing, Open Text. “The combination of content management and collaboration functionality will provide a dynamic foundation for transforming knowledge into action.”

Present in more than 65 countries around the world, Air Liquide is the world leader in industrial and medical gases and related services. Through our commitment to technology and innovation, Air Liquide improves its customers’ industrial performance and protects the environment. Since 1902, Air Liquide has successfully practiced an ethic of responsibility and transparency, which is particularly evident in the Group’s relationship with its shareholders. During the last thirty years the Group has achieved solid and sustained earnings growth of +11.3% per year. Air Liquide is traded on the Paris Stock Exchange (code FR0000120073) and is a member of the CAC 40 and Dow Jones indices. For more information about Air Liquide visit: www.airliquide.com/

Livelink is a leading software product in enterprise content management (ECM) for the global enterprise. Its richly-featured enterprise services are based upon a unique combination of integrated collaboration and knowledge management tools which include virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling, document and image management, 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 ECM 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 content 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.

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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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