Open Text Among Finalists for the 2006 Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year Special Recognition Award

CHICAGO, July 10  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEXNASDAQ:TSX:NASDAQ:OTC), a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, announced today that it has been nominated for Microsoft Corp.'s Global ISV Partner of the Year Special Recognition Award. Winners for the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards, which recognize top Microsoft Partners delivering market-leading, Microsoft-based solutions, will be announced July 12 in Boston, MA at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.

"Being nominated for this prestigious award is a testament to the hard work of people at Open Text and Microsoft who have built a very successful working relationship," said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer at Open Text. "With Microsoft, we are combining our deep content management expertise with Microsoft's productivity platforms to help workers be more effective, and our customers more successful."

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 1,800 entrants worldwide. The Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year Special Recognition Award is given to the global independent software vendor partner that has demonstrated outstanding leadership and is the most valuable global enterprise and medium-sized business partner in delivering Microsoft solutions to the two companies' mutual enterprise customers in the past year. Open Text is nominated for this award for developing solutions that have significantly affected its enterprise customers' business.

"Each year, our partners continue to set new standards with the level of solutions they develop and implement for our mutual customers," said Robert Bernard, General Manager of the Global ISV Group at Microsoft. "We are thrilled to recognize Open Text as one of the partners leading the field in this category."

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft Partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. Multiple awards are distributed in four categories: Partner of the Year for Technology Innovation, Partner of the Year for Sales and Marketing, the Specialization Excellence Awards and the Microsoft Initiative Awards.

Open Text is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. For more information on the relationship between Microsoft and Open Text, go to http://www.opentext.com/microsoft-partner

About Open Text

Open Text(TM) is a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that bring together people, processes and information in global organizations. Today, the company supports 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. For more information on Open Text, go to: http://www.opentext.com/.

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