OpenText Announces Voting Results for Election of Directors

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Open Text Corporation

Sep 26, 2013, 16:15 ET

WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 26, 2013 /CNW/ - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX: OTC), confirmed today that the nine nominees listed in its management proxy circular dated August 16, 2013 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 59,071,165 common shares representing 86.23% 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:

Votes For

Votes Withheld

P. Thomas Jenkins

47,964,671

96.43

%

1,776,573

3.57

%

Mark Barrenechea

49,024,217

98.56

%

717,027

1.44

%

Randy Fowlie

48,689,789

97.89

%

1,051,455

2.11

%

Gail E. Hamilton

49,591,568

99.70

%

149,676

0.30

%

Brian J. Jackman

49,056,917

98.62

%

684,327

1.38

%

Stephen J. Sadler

43,355,832

87.16

%

6,385,412

12.84

%

Michael Slaunwhite

48,425,629

97.36

%

1,315,615

2.64

%

Katharine B. Stevenson

49,552,982

99.62

%

188,262

0.38

%

Deborah Weinstein

49,050,439

98.61

%

690,805

1.39

%

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 as filed on EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), each of which was filed on September 26, 2013.

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For more information, please contact

United States:
Greg Secord
Vice President, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
San Francisco: (415) 963-0825
[email protected];

Canada:
Sonya Mehan
Senior Manager, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
Waterloo: 519-888-7111 Ext. 2446
[email protected]

SOURCE: Open Text Corporation

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