Open Text President and CEO Named to Computerworld Honors Chairmen s Committee

Framingham, MA - 2006-04-11 - Bob Carrigan, Chairman of the Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen s Committee and President of IDG Communications, has announced that John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer, Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC:), has joined its prestigious Chairmen s Committee.

Comprised of an elite group of top technology executives, the committee strives to recognize IT companies that have leveraged technology through the betterment of society.

The Chairmen s Committee possesses some of the most innovative leaders the IT industry has to offer, said Carrigan. Mr. Shackleton, along with other members of the committee, will play a prominent role in helping to carry out the program s mission to identify those companies and individuals who are using technology to positively impact society.

The Computerworld Honors Program (http://www.cwhonors.org) unites Chairmen and CEOs of the world s foremost information technology companies to recognize the most outstanding user achievements in technology each year. The process culminates with an awards ceremony, which will take place on June 5, 2006 in Washington, D.C., with a guest list that represents a who s who in IT. The technology achievements honored by this program are preserved and protected in national archives, and in over 250 universities, museums and research institutions throughout the world.

As part of the Chairmen's Committee, Shackleton will help to identify the organizations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision and the significance of its benefit to society.

About Open Text

Open Text is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Today, the company supports 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: www.opentext.com.

About the Computerworld Honors Program

Founded by International Data Group (IDG) in 1988, and governed by the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation, a Massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, the Computerworld Honors Program searches for and recognizes individuals and organizations who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use in innovative ways across 10 categories. Each year, the Computerworld Honors Chairmen s Committee nominates organizations that are using information technology to improve society for inclusion in the Computerworld Honors Online Archives and the Collections of Global Archives. The Global Archives represents the 100-plus institutions from more than 30 countries that include the Computerworld Honors Collection in their archives and libraries. Now in its 18th year, the Computerworld Honors Program is the industry s leading global IT awards program. www.cwhonors.org

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