RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group Receives Positive Rating in Leading Analyst Firm s Web Content Management MarketScope Report

Chicago, IL - 2007-03-01 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software and solutions, today announced that RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group, has received a Positive Rating in Gartner s MarketScope* for Web Content Management, 2007, for its RedDot Web Content Management and Content Delivery Solutions.

The Gartner MarketScope for Web Content Management serves as a guide for potential content management purchasers and as a non-partisan status report for existing clients.

We believe this recognition is incredibly rewarding and confirms our 13 year commitment to developing and delivering the best Web content management solutions, featuring legendary ease of use, said Daniel Kraft, President of RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group. We feel Gartner s recognition of RedDot underscores our strong market momentum; global product adoption and focus on usability that helps organizations manage, control and deliver content.

Open Text received a Strong Positive rating in Gartner s "MarketScope for Records Management, 2007" report authored by research vice president, Kenneth Chin. Dated January 30, 2007, Open Text s Strong Positive rating is the highest possible rating in this report. In addition, Gartner positioned Open Text in the Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant** for Enterprise Content Management, 2006. The report, co-authored by Karen Shegda, et al. is dated October 11, 2006.

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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: 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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* Marketscope Disclaimer
The MarketScope is copyrighted January 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner Inc. MarketScope for Web Content Management, 2007 by Lou Latham, Principal Research Analyst, dated January 30, 2007

**The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 11, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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