Viega Opts for RedDot

Leading German Manufacturer Expands Deployment of Open Text Products

Chicago, IL - 2007-02-27 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software and solutions, today announced that Viega, the Germany-based manufacturer of plumbing and heating technology products, has chosen to implement RedDot to manage and deliver content for its international Web sites, Intranet and an Extranet.

The advantages for Viega are RedDot s ease of use and personalization functions and that it can be integrated with Viega's deployments of Open Text Livelink ECM and SAP Enterprise Portal.

We are very impressed by RedDot for efficiently managing multilingual content for the Web. Combining RedDot with Open Text and SAP, we will be able to further improve our information processes for the benefit of our customers, business partners and staff, said Michael Nippel, Strategic Head of IT/CIO at Viega.

We are very pleased to have won Viega as a customer. Our strategy of being as open as possible to third party systems has proven to be the right one. The integrated use of our Web solutions, and in this case SAP and the Open Text portfolio, provide considerable scope for more targeted use of company information, said Daniel Kraft, President of RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group.

About RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group
Open Text Corporation is the largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management software and solutions. For more information about Open Text, please visit: http://www.opentext.com/.

RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group with more than a decade of experience in Web Content Management (WCM), provides Web-Centric ECM solutions to create, manage and deliver the content that drives business. RedDot content management and delivery solutions are recognized throughout the industry for their legendary ease of use and feature leading multilingual support; enterprise Web 2.0 capabilities; content integration; and contextualized delivery. From midmarket to enterprise, more than 2000 clients around the world rely on RedDot to create, manage and deliver personalized Web experiences for their Intranets, Extranets and Web sites. For more information about RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group, please visit: www.reddot.com/..

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For more information, please contact

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

Michele Stevenson
Open Text Corporation
519-888-7111 ext. 2594
mstevens@opentext.com

Beth Torrie Zwaryczuk
RedDot - The Open Text Web Solutions Group
212-425-3988 ext. 215
elizabeth.torrie@reddot.com