BW2174 SEP 07,2000 5:31 PACIFIC 08:31 EASTERN ( BW)(OPEN-TEXT/ORACLE)(OTEX)(OTC.) Oracle and Open Text Announce Partnership Enabling Single Point Access to Content Management and Collaborative Capabilities Business & High-Tech Editors WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000-- Open Text's Open Interchange Architecture Extends The Power of Livelink With Oracle Portal Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX)(TSE:OTC), a worldwide leader of collaborative commerce software for e-business, today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL), the world's leading supplier of software. The partnership enables organizations to build highly scalable solutions by providing access to Livelink's powerful collaborative capabilities through Oracle(R) Portal, a browser-based software environment for building and deploying enterprise portals. Open Text's Open Interchange Architecture(TM) (OIA) has made this innovative partnership possible. Recently introduced, the OIA supports the further extension of Livelink to integrate with third party portal development frameworks. Ensuring interoperability, the OIA makes use of industry standards -- XML for data interchange and CORBA for distributed computing. The openness of the OIA facilitates a new method of winning customers, shifting corporate focus from competition to collaboration. Integration between Oracle Portal and Livelink is achieved by leveraging myLivelink(R), a collaborative knowledge portal for e-business applications that gives users a personalized interface to Livelink. myLivelink information access controls are exposed as portlets, reusable interface components that provide access to Web-based resources, within Oracle Portal. Since administration and configuration of Livelink controls are provided directly from Oracle Portal, customers are able to take advantage of myLivelink's best-of-breed portal access to Livelink without having to create or support custom Oracle portlets. Facilitating the creation of highly scalable collaborative applications, myLivelink's distributed architecture spans multiple portal servers and Livelink instances. The combination of Oracle Portal, part of the Oracle Internet Platform, with Open Text's Livelink offers organizations a comprehensive platform for collaboration, content management, data warehousing, business intelligence, application integration, and mobile computing. "We are pleased with the new partnership between Oracle and Open Text," said Jeremy Burton, Oracle Senior Vice President, Product and Services Marketing. "By integrating the Livelink knowledge management solution with Oracle Portal, Open Text customers can have access to Oracle's portal infrastructure that offers a secure, organized, and personalized view of the business information, Web content, and applications essential to knowledge workers. In addition, Oracle customers can leverage the robust collaborative capabilities of Livelink, including workflow, enterprise group scheduling, and virtual project workspaces, through Oracle Portal. "Our agreement with Oracle emphasizes the high scalability of the Open Interchange Architecture," said Andrew Pery, Vice President of Global Marketing, Open Text. "Over 50% of our installed customer base already employ Oracle technology, the leading e-business software provider. Through collaboration and cooperation, the OIA allows us to provide joint customers with a single point of access to all of the corporate knowledge, content, legacy applications and structured information warehoused in the Livelink repository. By partnering with Oracle, we further strengthen our leadership in collaborative e-business applications." About Oracle Portal Oracle Portal (the next generation release of Oracle WebDB) combines an extensible portal framework with self-service Web publishing to form the infrastructure that e-businesses need to build and manage enterprise-class portals. Oracle Portal is a browser-based software environment for building and deploying enterprise portals. It provides a secure, manageable framework for delivering access to distributed software services and information resources. The easy-to-use portal interface offers an organized, personalized view of the business information, web content, and applications needed by each user. Self-service publishing features eliminate webmaster bottlenecks by allowing end users to post and share any kind of document or web content with other users anywhere in the world. The deployment architecture is optimized for scalability and security, and allows for centralized administration of all portal services through a browser. In addition to its core portal development and management features, Oracle Portal provides an extensible framework for integrating applications and business information. The framework is based on Oracle's unique portlet technology. Portlets are reusable interface components that provide access to web-based resources. Any web page, application, business intelligence report, syndicated content feed, hosted software service or other resource can be accessed through a portlet, allowing it to be personalized and managed as a service of Oracle Portal. About myLivelink myLivelink is the leading collaborative knowledge portal solution for business. It connects users to information from within their enterprise business systems, intranets, extranets and global e-community -- all from a single Web interface. Using myLivelink, users can filter and access information from selected sources, set up virtual teams, collaborate on projects, and participate in discussions across the globe -- without leaving the desktop. A 'hub' for navigating and accessing a variety of information sources, myLivelink enables users to personalize access to corporate information, industry data, enterprise business systems, consumer links, e-mail, conferencing, calendaring, forms processing, news feeds, and more. About Livelink Livelink is a highly scaleable e-business application. 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. About Open Text Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet and extranet ebusiness applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. It's product family called Livelink enables individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations. Open Text has become one of the largest providers of Web based collaboration for e-business applications for e-communities of all types from intranets to extranets and public groups. The Livelink product family has over 4 million users in over 4,000 installations in 31 countries, speaking 12 languages throughout the world. For more information, visit www.opentext.com. Copyright(c)2000 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, 'Effective Solutions. Driven By Vision. Powered By Innovation.', HyperInnovation, b2bScene.com, and Open Text are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation., Inc. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink and myLivelink 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, 1998, and June 30, 1999, and Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1999, December 31, 1999 and March 31, 2000. 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. --30--jsw/clv* CONTACT: Open Text Corporation Greg Secord, 519/888-7111 x2408 gsecord@opentext.com Meagan Ross, 519/888-7111 x2368 mross@opentext.com KEYWORD: INTERNATIONAL CANADA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: E-COMMERCE INTERNET SOFTWARE TELECOMMUNICATIONS MARKETING AGREEMENTS