WATERLOO, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) (TSX: OTEX), confirmed today that the ten nominees listed in its management proxy circular dated August 15, 2017 were elected as its directors. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors at its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") held earlier today in Waterloo, Ontario are set out below. Shareholders holding 215,819,358 common shares representing 81.36% 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              204,679,276 97.50%                5,243,017  2.50%

    Mark Barrenechea               208,439,686 99.29%                1,482,607  0.71%

    Randy Fowlie                   204,560,383 97.45%                5,361,910  2.55%

    Gail E. Hamilton               209,509,589 99.80%                  412,704  0.20%

    Brian J. Jackman               203,796,245 97.08%                6,126,048  2.92%

    Stephen J. Sadler              205,344,464 97.82%                4,577,829  2.18%

    Michael Slaunwhite             198,917,547 94.76%               11,004,746  5.24%

    Katharine B.
     Stevenson                     206,797,934 98.51%                3,124,359  1.49%

    Carl Jürgen Tinggren           209,815,191 99.95%                  107,102  0.05%

    Deborah Weinstein              182,278,745 86.83%               27,643,548 13.17%

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 Open Text's Form 8-K filed on EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), each of which was filed on September 21, 2017.

About OpenText

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For more information, please contact

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

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