U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Wins InfoWorld 100 Award for Solution from Open Text and Momentum Systems.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2003

Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX)(TSX: OTC), provider of Livelink(R), the leading collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise, and Momentum Systems, an Open Text Global Alliance Partner, today announced that InfoWorld Magazine has honored the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with an InfoWorld 100 Award.

This year's InfoWorld 100 awards honor IT initiatives making use of innovative technology to further their organizations' goals. The EEOC received the award for its Correspondence Tracking System (CTS). Based on Open Text's Livelink, the award-winning solution converts paper documents to electronic format in compliance with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act.

Momentum Systems, a professional services company specializing in information technology and lifecycle consulting, recently became Open Text's Global Alliance Program Vertical Partner of the year for the developing the solution, called Correspondence Management with Livelink.

For more information about the InfoWorld 100 Awards: http://www.infoworld.com/reports/44SRiw100.html

About Momentum Systems

Momentum Systems Inc., established in 1993 and based in Arlington, Virginia, is a professional services company specializing in information technology and lifecycle consulting. The company's professional services represent end-to-end business initiatives, including need analysis, process re-engineering, systems integration, software design, training, and support. Momentum Systems' lifecycle consulting takes a holistic approach to problems, with an understanding that information systems are valuable business assets only after they are properly designed and interconnected. With this focus, Momentum Systems deploys knowledge management solutions that leverage the intrinsic knowledge base of organizations. The company's strategic software partners, including Open Text, Oracle, and Macromedia, lead their respective markets.

About Open Text and Livelink

Open Text(TM) is the market leader in providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Since launching the world's first Internet search engine and the first Web-based enterprise collaboration and knowledge management software, Open Text has continued its leadership in providing global enterprises with innovative and effective solutions. Throughout its history, Open Text has matched its tradition of innovation with a track record of financial strength and growth. Today, the company supports fifteen million seats across 10,000 deployments in 31 countries and 12 languages worldwide. Open Text's flagship product, Livelink(R) seamlessly combines collaboration with content management, helping organizations transform information into knowledge to provide the foundation for innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. For more information on Open Text and Livelink, go to: www.opentext.com and www.opentext.com/livelink.

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