Open Text Receives KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers Choice Awards

Open Text Recognized in Three Technology Areas: Email Management, Document Management and Collaboration

Chicago, IL - 2007-01-22 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, today announced that it has received three Readers Choice Awards from KMWorld Magazine, one of the top U.S. news magazines covering content and knowledge management technology.

Based purely on market awareness, KMWorld readers were surveyed on which companies they immediately thought of as being leading providers in such categories as document management, business process management, collaboration, email management, search, and customer relationship management. According to reader responses, Open Text was recognized for its leadership in the email management, document management and collaboration categories.

The results of the KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers Choice Awards were announced in the January 2007 State-of-the-Industry issue.

In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of KMWorld Magazine, we asked our readers to select the Top five providers in the key knowledge management technology areas for their mission-critical business applications, said Andy Moore, KMWorld publisher. The results directly reflect the landscape of KMWorld as it appeared in 2006.

Open Text is a leader in providing advanced ECM solutions for large corporations, governments and professional service firms. Open Text s solutions help people work together online, automate processes and manage large volumes of documents, e-mails and other content.

Open Text s comprehensive email management solutions allow customers to manage email as corporate records, providing a centralized foundation of compliant archiving and records management, as well as the ability to address e-discovery requirements.

Open Text s document management solutions provide full lifecycle management for any type of document, providing a single, authoritative repository for storing and organizing electronic documents. Open Text also offers high-volume document processing solutions, which includes production document management, imaging and BPM capabilities. These solutions allow large companies to manage millions of documents generated by business processes such as invoicing or claims processing.

Open Text s collaborative work environments combine a robust knowledge repository with project workspaces, communities, and other tools to give customers everything they need to collaborate more effectively online. The complete results of the KMWorld 10th Anniversary Readers Choice Awards are featured in the January 2007 State-of-the-Industry Issue of KMWorld magazine and are also available on its website at: http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=18870

About KMWorld Magazine
The leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market, KMWorld (with a focus on Content, Document and Knowledge Management) informs more than 51,000 subscribers about the components and processes -- and subsequent success stories -- that together offer solutions for improving business performance.

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.

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For more information, please contact

Margaret E. Dobbin
Director, Industry Analyst Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2410
mdobbin@opentext.com

Richard Maganini
Open Text Corporation
1-847-961-0662
rmaganin@opentext.com

Brian Edwards
McKenzie Worldwide
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briane@mckenzieworldwide.com