Open Text to Report First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results on Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Waterloo, Ontario - 2009-10-14 - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX:OTC), the leading independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, today announced that financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010 will be released on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at approximately 4:00 p.m. ET.

Teleconference Call

Open Text will host a conference call on October 27, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the final financial results of its first quarter.

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time: 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT
Length: 60 minutes
Where: 800-814-4861

Please dial-in approximately 10 minutes before the teleconference is scheduled to begin. A replay of the call will be available beginning October 27, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. ET through 11:59 p.m. on November 10, 2009 and can be accessed by dialing 416-640-1917 and using pass code 4169327 followed by the number sign.

For more information or to listen to the call via Web cast, please use the following link: http://www.opentext.com/events/wa-event.html?id=7735475

About Open Text

Open Text is the world's largest independent provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) 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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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, a possible change of reporting dates due to a delay in finalizing financial results 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, 2009. 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
Vice President, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
+1-519-888-7111 ext.2408
gsecord@opentext.com