Open Text Corporation announced b2bScene.com, a cross-industry, collaborative commerce marketplace. b2bScene.com will operate as an independent division of Open Text, leveraging Livelink’s collaborative capabilities and its new personalized interface, myLivelink. This new Division will provide marketplace services to small, medium and large organizations. In addition to buying and selling goods and services online, successful e-business interaction relies on collaboration between buyers and sellers, facilitating dialogue between parties, automating business processes (e.g., product sourcing, design and production) and managing the wealth of information around each transaction. b2bScene.com will leverage Open Text’s collaborative business applications to achieve dynamic collaboration among an organization’s employees, business partners and customers in both public and private trading communities. b2bScene.com will host and support a public and a member-driven Internet marketplace, offering access to services through a personalized interface. Kirk Roberts, formerly Senior Vice President, Customer Services and Information Technology, Open Text Corporation, have been appointed President of the new Division.www.b2bscene.com, www.opentext.com