"The expectations for the Web have evolved," said Scott Bowen, Senior Vice President at Open Text. "A successful Enterprise 2.0 strategy must consider social media, mobile devices, brand consistency - all while managing massive amounts of content in a range of formats. Medium and large enterprises must learn to do this effectively and securely, while meeting compliance and privacy requirements. We're helping customers bridge the divide, combining new technology to extend their ECM solutions in new and more powerful ways. The plans we're unveiling this week demonstrate a comprehensive set of new capabilities, all integrated as part of the Open Text ECM Suite."

Open Text's new product plans deliver significant enhancements in user experience, allowing more people to interact, manage and publish content in all its forms, increasing productivity and streamlining processes, plus adding innovative social media capabilities. Enhanced integration with the Open Text ECM Suite deepens broader ECM integration, making a number of scenarios possible including:

* Integrating the traditional intranet with a social knowledge management Enterprise 2.0 solution for increased productivity.

* Improved efficiencies through consolidated and localised multi-site global Web solutions.

* Increased revenue and profitability by driving conversions and advocacy through more social, personal and engaging Web channels.

* Improved customer satisfaction and loyalty, plus driving cost savings, with automated surfacing of customer or partner information via a Web service portal.

* New ways of interacting with employees, customers and partners by fostering communities that produce innovation, loyalty, knowledge sharing and engagement.

* Greater brand control, and ensuring rich media captured via the Web is managed centrally and in ways that are efficient, secure and compliant

Product Roadmap:

Web Content Management

* Vignette Content Management 8.0 will be released this quarter, delivering on many customer requests and market innovations. A new user interface will empower business users to contribute, review, edit, manage and publish web content, relieving IT of day-to- day Web responsibilities. Additional enhancements in content models, publishing and many other areas raise the bar for advanced and fully dynamic enterprise scale Web Content Management and Web Content Delivery. Version 8.1, coming in Q2 2010, will see Vignette Content Management become part of the Open Text ECM Suite, serving as the foundation for highly dynamic and interactive web applications.

* Open Text Web Solutions 10.1, planned for the first half of 2010, will deliver comprehensive social media offerings utilising the market leading Vignette Community Applications and Services as part of a seamless solution, while furthering the integrations with core Open Text ECM Suite capabilities. Open Text Web Solutions will continue to see increased investment specifically in areas that take advantage of utilising shared services in the Web Solutions portfolio such as search, video delivery, social media, digital asset management and document management integrations. Open Text reiterated its long term commitment to the Web Solutions product line and will continue to position the product for quick-to-deploy Web site management use cases.

* After the successful launch of Open Text's Portal Manager 9.0 for SAP NetWeaver Portal, Open Text will deliver further enhancements of this product during the first quarter of 2010. With this offering, dynamic content as well as dynamic navigation structures can be easily managed and merged into the portal structure by non-technical business experts just by clicking editing buttons and making inline changes. Open Text will be adding delivery of social media capabilities to NetWeaver portal with the next release of this offering.

* Open Text also plans a next-generation Web Business Application, targeted for 2012, which will build upon the strengths of the highly scalable Vignette Content Management foundation and add the legendary ease-of-use application framework of Open Text Web Solutions. Areas of development include enhanced content modeling and templating, richer in-context editing for non-technical users and faster Web site deployment, all within the context of a productised offering. This initiative gives Open Text a platform to address highly varying requirements within one suite based offering, broadening the scope of its ECM suite to address all web content management use case scenarios.

Digital Asset Management

* Open Text will launch Media Management 7.0 in Q1 2010 featuring a completely new user interface that leverages the latest Web design technologies to provide an immersive experience in rich media management. Media Management 7.0 will feature flexible metadata and asset management capabilities, along with process management and workflow capabilities delivered through Open Text ECM Suite technology.

Digital Asset Management

* Open Text will launch Media Management 7.0 in Q1 2010 featuring a completely new user interface that leverages the latest Web design technologies to provide an immersive experience into rich media management. Media Management 7.0 will feature flexible metadata and asset management capabilities and improved process and workflow capabilities. This release will be followed in Q2 2010 by a suite of upgrade tools that allow for SAP integration and overall deeper interaction with the Open Text ECM Suite as well as Open Text Social Media.

Social Media

* Vignette Community Applications 8.0, to be released in Q1 2010, will include innovative features in a flexible and powerful platform that can socially enable interactions with customers, partners and employees. Version 8.0 will build on existing community capabilities like idea management, blogs, wikis and forums to deliver social networking, advanced notifications, integration with multiple presentation systems, REST API enhancements and deep integration with Open Text content management solutions.

* Open Text will build on the successful launch of its social media solutions in first half of 2010 with the introduction of Open Text Social Media 1.1. The application will include deeper integration with the ECM Suite, a new wiki editor and a quick messaging feature that combines the convenience of instant messaging with the flexibility of microblogging.

Content World Open Text's Content World Conference is focused on helping customers capitalise on their content, with distinguished speakers, more than 125 sessions on ECM best practices, emerging trends and technical expertise, and in-depth networking. For more information on Content World, go to: http://www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/

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.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the success of any of the Company's strategic initiatives, the Company's growth and profitability prospects, the benefits of the Company's products to be realised by customers, the Company's position in the market and future opportunities therein, the deployment of Open Text ECM Suite and our other products by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. 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, the failure to develop new products, risks involved in fluctuations in currency exchange rates, delays in purchasing decisions of customers, the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers, demand for the Company's products 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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CONTACT: Richard Warner, Spreckley Partners Ltd Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 9988 e-mail: warner@spreckley.co.uk Luke Derbyshire, Spreckley Partners Ltd Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 9988 e-mail: derbyshire@spreckley.co.uk Open Text WWW: http://www.opentext.com

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As the volume of enterprise content continues to grow, IT professionals and business users are faced with the challenge of controlling costs and reducing time spent on administrative work - all while connecting with their constituents across multiple channels. Vignette Portal 8.0 simplifies the administration and creation of dynamic, content-rich Web sites with the ability to rapidly syndicate portal applications across Web properties powered by multiple systems.

"Our customers are realising that it is becoming much more complex to manage their numerous Web properties - whether internal or external," said John Petersen, CEO of Sutro Software, an Open Text partner specialising in Portal software and integrations. "Vignette Portal 8 from Open Text expands on the versatility and rich interoperability afforded a pioneer in the enterprise portal space. It helps businesses unify their Web software portfolios into sleek, easy-to-use Web sites and allows those same businesses to engage customers and partners with rich and socially enabled Web experiences." The release of Portal 8.0 not only demonstrates Open Text's continued commitment to Vignette customers and technology, but also enables additional social media capabilities that align with the company's strategic development of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Open Text recently announced that it plans to enhance its ECM Suite with next-generation Web solutions powered by technology from its existing Web Solutions and Vignette. By offering a variety of solutions, the company will allow organisations - regardless of size and industry - to successfully address their business needs.

"In this digital world, content comprises the heart of business innovation, efficiency and profit," commented Scott Bowen, Senior Vice President of Open Text. "Our solutions help organisations drive value from content through the delivery of personal and relevant experiences that support revenue generation and efficiency throughout the enterprise. These proven and vital presentation services deliver substantial ROI for literally hundreds of critical business applications." Features Built on proven architecture, Vignette Portal 8.0 consolidates site creation tasks while enabling high-performance content and application reuse. With Vignette Portal 8.0, users have the ability to: Quickly Create Sites

Rapidly and easily create or clone microsites with accelerated Web site creation from a template or existing site

Streamline asset management with WebDAV support that empowers Web designers to use a native design tool, like Adobe Dreamweaver, to model sites and target assets without logging into the portal

Dynamically Syndicate Content and Applications

Easily syndicate portlets or Web applications based on Vignette Portal 8.0 and drop them onto virtually any Web site for sophisticated syndication

Improve end user Web experiences via AJAX-powered portlets that enable users to interact in real time with applications and content with fewer page refreshes and improving perceived performance.

Vignette Portal 8.0, together with the user experience foundation of Vignette Community Applications, provides organisations with more than 100 social portlets that add capabilities such as wikis, blogs, idea sharing and event calendars to any portal site. Additionally, Vignette Portal 8.0 provides robust user presentation services to the upcoming Vignette Content Management version 8.0 (www.vignette.com/vcm8) release, slated for Q4 2009. The result is an ECM solution that combines enterprise assets and social content, further integrating valuable information and resources for Web site visitors.

Vignette Portal 8.0 is available immediately. For more information, please visit www.vignette.com or www.opentext.com.

Content World Open Text's Content World Conference is focused on helping customers capitalise on their content, with distinguished speakers, more than 125 sessions on ECM best practices, emerging trends and technical expertise, and in-depth networking. For more information on Content World, go to: http://www.opentext.com/contentworld/2009/ 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.

Safe Harbour Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the success of any of the Company's strategic initiatives, the Company's growth and profitability prospects, the benefits of the Company's products to be realised by customers, the Company's position in the market and future opportunities therein, the deployment of Open Text ECM Suite and our other products by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation. 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, the failure to develop new products, risks involved in fluctuations in currency exchange rates, delays in purchasing decisions of customers, the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers, demand for the Company's products 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.

Copyright 2009 by Open Text Corporation. OPEN TEXT, the OPEN TEXT ECM SUITE, VIGNETTE PORTAL, VIGNETTE COMMUNITY APPLICATIONS and VIGNETTE CONTENT MANAGEMENT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation in the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and/or other countries. This list of trademarks is not exhaustive. Other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names, company names, brands and service names mentioned herein are property of Open Text Corporation or other respective owners.

CONTACT: Richard Warner, Spreckley Partners Ltd Tel: +44 (0)20 7388 9988 e-mail: warner@spreckley.co.uk Luke Derbyshire, Spreckley Partners Tel: +44 (0)207 388 9988 e-mail: derbyshire@spreckley.co.uk WWW: http://www.spreckley.co.uk Open Text WWW: http://www.opentext.com

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Expected next investor conference call information:
Conference Call Date: 10/27/2009
Conference Call Time (ET): 5:00 PM
Conference Call URL: http://www.opentext.com/events/wa-event.html?id=7735475

Expected next investor conference call information:
Conference Call Date: 10/27/2009
Conference Call Time (ET): 5:00 PM
Conference Call URL: http://www.opentext.com/events/wa-event.html?id=7735475