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Open Text Releases FirstClass Mobile on App Store

Wednesday 22. July 2009 - New Application Offers iPhone and iPod touch Customers Mobile Access to FirstClass Content and Collaboration Features

Open Text (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), today announced that FirstClass Mobile is now available as a free download from the App Store. FirstClass Mobile brings a broad range of rich features to the iPhone and iPod touch giving users access to their messaging and collaborative services from virtually anywhere.

“The FirstClass Mobile App reflects our focus on meeting the increasing demand for powerful mobile solutions from our customers,” said John Myers, Vice President and General Manager of Open Text’s Communications Solutions Group. “With the FirstClass Mobile App we’re able to give iPhone and iPod touch users a powerful communications solution that delivers a true mobile collaboration experience.”

Using FirstClass Mobile users can securely login to any FirstClass server from their iPhone or iPod touch to access items on their FirstClass Desktop including email, bookmarks and content from shared collaborative spaces. The FirstClass Mobile App takes advantage of revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch capabilities for playing and sharing sound and video files, and displaying and sending photos. In addition, customers using FirstClass Unified Communications can play voicemail messages (in MP3 format) from their mailbox on the device. iPhone users can also access their FirstClass calendars and contacts via the ActiveSync support built in to FirstClass Sync Services.

“We are really excited about FirstClass Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch as it has major implications for our staff and students,” said Keith Pomeroy, Director of Technology with Olentangy Local School District, located near Columbus, Ohio. “The FirstClass Mobile App will allow us to use iPhone and iPod touch to meet our mission of facilitating maximum learning for every student through what we believe is one of the premier learning infrastructures in terms of extending the classroom into an online environment.”