Open Text to Report Second Quarter Financial Results on Thursday, February 8, 2007

Waterloo, ON - 2007-01-09 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX:OTC), the leading independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today announced that financial results for its second quarter of fiscal 2007 will be released on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at approximately 4:00 p.m. ET.

Teleconference Call

Open Text will host a conference call on February 8, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the final financial results of its second quarter.

Date: February 8, 2007

Time: 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT

Length: 60 minutes

Where: 416-640-1907

Please dial-in approximately 10 minutes before the teleconference is scheduled to begin. A replay of the call will be available beginning February 8, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.ET through 11:59 p.m. on February 22, 2007 and can be accessed by dialing 416-640-1917 and using pass code 21215721#.

For more information or to listen to the call via Web cast, please use the following link: http://www.opentext.com/investor/investor_events/.

About Open Text

Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software. The company's solutions manage information for all types of business, compliance and industry requirements in the world's largest companies, government agencies and professional service firms. Open Text supports approximately 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries and 12 languages. For more information about Open Text, visit www.opentext.com.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the timing of announcing financial results which is subject to the risks and assumptions contained herein. Forward-looking statements may also include, without limitation, any statement relating to future events, conditions or circumstances. Forward-looking statements in this release are not promises or guarantees and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements include, among others, the failure to develop new products, risks involved in fluctuations in currency exchange rates, delays in purchasing decisions of customers, 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, demand for the Company's products and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2006 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2006. You should not place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which 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.

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For more information, please contact

Paul McFeeters
Chief Financial Officer
Open Text Corporation
+1-905-762-6121
pmcfeeters@opentext.com

Greg Secord
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2408
gsecord@opentext.com