FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

               ACCELIO CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY
                    RECOMMENDS REJECTION OF OPEN TEXT OFFER


Ottawa, ON, January 7, 2002 - Accelio Corporation,  (NASDAQ:  ACLO, TSE: LIO), a
leading  global  provider  of  Web-enabled  business  process  solutions,  today
announced  that the Company's  Board of Directors has  unanimously  rejected the
unsolicited  take over bid by Open Text  Corporation  for all of the  issued and
outstanding  Accelio common shares.  The Board recommends that  shareholders not
tender their common shares to Open Text's offer as they have determined that the
offered price does not reflect the full value of Accelio. A Directors' Circular,
outlining the Accelio Board's reasons for its unanimous recommendation,  will be
mailed to shareholders later this week.

"The Board and management of Accelio are focused on delivering superior value to
our shareholders. CIBC World Markets, who we have engaged to advise the Board on
the Open Text bid and other matters, has advised us that the Open Text offer is
inadequate from a financial point of view. After careful consideration, we have
determined that Open Text's unsolicited offer does not recognize the full value
of Accelio, given its significant growth potential," said Abe Ostrovsky,
chairman of Accelio Corporation.

The  Accelio   Board  of  Directors   believes  that  the  Open  Text  offer  is
opportunistically timed to take advantage of weak share trading prices while the
Company is incurring  significant  front end costs to reorganize  and expand its
sales force.

"In the past 18 months,  Accelio has re-staffed its executive team,  doubled its
sales  and  distribution  capacity,  revamped  its  integrated  solution  suite,
successfully  rebranded  itself globally and most recently lowered its cost base
while  preserving  its strong  intellectual  capital,"  said A.  Kevin  Francis,
president and chief  executive  officer.  " With this offer,  Open Text seeks to
benefit from the unrealized value created by Accelio  repositioning from a tools
oriented company to a fully integrated customer solutions provider."


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The Board of Directors is considering a variety of alternatives  for the Company
including possible alternative transactions with a number of interested parties.
The Open Text offer will not expire before Feb 4, 2002 and Accelio  shareholders
are encouraged to await further communication from their Board of Directors.

About Accelio

Accelio Corporation  (formerly JetForm Corporation) is a leading global provider
of Web-enabled  business process  solutions,  headquartered  in Canada.  Accelio
helps organizations to gain sustainable  advantage by extending and accelerating
their  core  business  processes.  The  Accelio  family of  integrated  software
solutions empower organizations to capture,  integrate and present strategically
relevant  information for employees,  partners and customers -- enabling them to
work smarter and more productively.

With fiscal 2001 revenues of over $100 million,  and in business since 1982, the
Accelio global  distribution  network spans every continent,  with more than 8.5
million users worldwide.  Accelio customers are Global 2000 organizations in the
financial services,  banking,  manufacturing,  utilities and public sectors. For
more information on Accelio, visit: www.accelio.com.

Accelio  and the  Accelio  logo are  trademarks  of Accelio  Corporation.  Other
product and company names herein may be  trademarks of registered  trademarks of
their respective owners.

In this announcement,  under the provisions of the new "safe harbour" section of
the  Private   Securities   Litigation   Reform  Act  of  1995,   Accelio  makes
forward-looking  statements  that  involve a number of risks and  uncertainties.
Among the factors that could cause actual  future  results to differ  materially
are variability in quarterly results,  competition,  rapid technological change,
management of growth,  third party  dependence,  dependence  upon key personnel,
international  operations  and  geographic  concentration,  exchange rate risks;
currency fluctuations,  reliance on intellectual  property,  product defects and
product  liability,  volatility  of stock and other  factors as discussed in the
Company's  prospectus  and  Form-10K as filed with the  Securities  and Exchange
Commission.

For more information:

Nicola Clarke McIsaac                           Eileen Foley
Accelio Investor Relations                      Accelio Public Relations
905-947-8485 ext. 3218                          613-751-4800 ext. 5273
nclarke@accelio.com                             efoley@accelio.com


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