Open Text Up and Running at Thames Valley Park

London, UK - 2009-10-08 - Open Text Corporation, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today formally opened its new UK headquarters facility at Thames Valley Park, Reading.

Open Text employs over 300 staff in the UK, and the new facility will allow greater interaction of the teams from customer support, sales, marketing, professional services, training and administration. The move follows a series of acquisitions in recent years that led to a number of smaller offices, distributed around the UK.

John Shackleton, President and CEO, Open Text, in declaring the facility open, commented, This is a proud day for Open Text. Thames Valley Park is a world class facility and reflects Open Text s leadership position in providing our customers and partners with the support they deserve, positioned close to two of our Global Strategic Alliance Partners, Oracle and Microsoft.

Dave Wareham, General Manager EMEA, Open Text commented, The decision to move to Thames Valley Park was driven by a need to be closer to our customers and partners in the UK, to have excellent facilities for our staff and to provide flexible options for future growth with strong communications facilities.

As part of its commitment to Reading and the local community, Open Text presented a donation to London Irish Rugby Club players, Jonathan Fisher and George Stowers, for Help for Heroes, the chosen charity of London Irish. The players accepted the cheque at the opening ceremony, when John Shackleton cut the traditional ribbon.

Shackleton commented, We are delighted to be joined today by representatives of London Irish Rugby Club based at The Madejski Stadium in Reading and to make this donation to their chosen charity, Help For Heroes. The Help for Heroes charity was setup in 2007 to help wounded armed forces service personnel returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. For more information, visit http://helpforheroes.org.uk.

About Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organisations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts to help organisations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit http://www.opentext.com/uk.

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