Tolly Group Finds Connectivity Secure Server Offers Best Total Cost of
    Ownership Compared to All Other Products Tested

WATERLOO, ON, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced the results of a new study establishing the superior performance and scalability of Connectivity Secure Server(TM).

With billions of dollars of annual losses attributed to security breaches, organizations are under increasing pressure from auditors and shareholders to step up their security efforts. Connectivity Secure Server is a high-performance server for Windows which offers SFTP file transfer and secure terminal sessions, as well as FIPS 140-2 validated encryption for securing network traffic.

    Open Text commissioned The Tolly Group to compare Connectivity Secure
Server against other secure shell server products. Key findings of the report
include:

    -   Delivers the highest performance and maximum scalability of the three
        secure shell server products tested
    -   Costs up to 12X less to support 1,000 concurrent SFTP connections
        than rival products tested
    -   Completes 1,000 SFTP file transfer sessions from four PC clients on a
        single server, while other servers tested failed to scale properly
    -   Imposes less overhead on host server CPU than other products tested
    -   Uses 9X less server CPU memory than other products tested to complete
        36MB file transfer to client

"Not all secure shell server products are created equal," said Kevin Tolly, founder of The Tolly Group. "Our testing shows Connectivity Secure Server consistently outperformed rival product offerings tested delivering superior processing speed by completing single file transfer up to 24X faster than the other two competitors at a fraction of the total cost."

"Our product was designed for our customers who are not willing to compromise between security, performance and cost to fulfill their connectivity needs," said Eugene Cherny, General Manager for connectivity solutions at Open Text. "Connectivity Secure Server follows the tradition of technology excellence and customer commitment which we started with Exceed(R) 20 years ago."

To access the report, visit: www.opentext.com/tollygroupsecurityreport

Open Text's leading connectivity solutions connect people, data and applications in mission-critical environments through a complete line of remote application access and data integration solutions. With 90 percent of Global 2000 companies relying on its award-winning solutions for over 20 years, Open Text understands the financial and operational challenges that most organizations face, whether it is multiple systems, disparate data sources or geographically dispersed teams. For more information on Open Text's connectivity solutions, please visit: http://www.opentext.com/connectivity

About The Tolly Group

The Tolly Group is a leading global provider of third-party validation services for vendors of IT products, components and services. For more information, visit http://www.tolly.com.

About Open Text

Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts(TM) to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com.

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