OpenText Announces Voting Results for Election of Directors

WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTC), confirmed today that the nine nominees listed in its management proxy circular dated August 12, 2016 were elected as its directors. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors at its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") held earlier today in Waterloo, Ontario are set out below. Shareholders holding 104,135,548 common shares representing 85.74% of the outstanding common shares were present in person or by proxy at the Meeting.

On a vote by ballot, each of the following nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of OpenText:

The results of other matters considered at the Meeting are reported in the Report of Voting Results as filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) and OpenText's Form 8-K filed on EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), each of which was filed on September 23, 2016.

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OpenText is the largest independent software provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM). For more information please visit www.opentext.com.Copyright ©2016 Open Text Corporation. OpenText is a trademark or registered trademark of OpenText. The list of trademarks is not exhaustive of other trademarks. Registered trademarks, product names, company names, brands and service names mentioned herein are property of OpenText. All rights reserved. For more information, visit: http://www.opentext.com/who-we-are/copyright-information.

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For more information, please contact

Greg SecordVice President, Investor RelationsOpen Text Corporation San Francisco: (415) 963-0825 [email protected]

Sonya MehanSenior Manager, Investor RelationsOpen Text CorporationWaterloo: 519-888-7111 Ext. 2446[email protected]

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