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:



                       Votes For                    Votes Withheld
                       ---------                    --------------

    P. Thomas Jenkins             97,045,452 95.45%                4,623,097  4.55%

    Mark Barrenechea             100,580,494 98.93%                1,088,055  1.07%

    Randy Fowlie                  99,215,007 97.59%                2,453,542  2.41%

    Gail E. Hamilton             101,114,444 99.45%                  554,105  0.55%

    Brian J. Jackman              90,960,629 89.47%               10,707,920 10.53%

    Stephen J. Sadler             89,275,399 87.81%               12,393,150 12.19%

    Michael Slaunwhite            89,399,672 87.93%               12,268,877 12.07%

    Katharine B.
     Stevenson                   101,211,960 99.55%                  456,589  0.45%

    Deborah Weinstein             90,985,286 89.49%               10,683,263 10.51%

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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For more information, please contact

Greg Secord
Vice President, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
San Francisco: (415) 963-0825
gsecord@opentext.com

Sonya Mehan
Senior Manager, Investor Relations
Open Text Corporation
Waterloo: 519-888-7111 Ext. 2446
smehan@opentext.com

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SOURCE Open Text Corporation