About OpenText

The University of Waterloo and Oxford University partner to create the first online Oxford English Dictionary. The resulting University of Waterloo spin-off, OpenText, incorporates in June 1991 and begins shipping product in September.

The first OpenText web-based product ships, allowing Yahoo! to search every word on every webpage.

The company holds its Initial Public Offering and is publicly listed on the NASDAQ as OTEX.

OpenText employs more than 1,000 employees at 31 offices as revenue reaches $147 million.

Gartner recognizes OpenText as a global leader in ECM for the first time. The company will continue to be recognized in each consecutive report for 18 years and counting.

Mark J. Barrenechea joins OpenText as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board.

OpenText acquires GXS for $1.06 billion adding both B2B integration services and cloud-based fax services to its market leadership.

OpenText strengthens its position as the market leader in Content Services with the $1.62 billion acquisition of the Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Division, including Documentum.

OpenText acquires Carbonite for $1.45 billion, ensuring cyber resiliency for customers with an endpoint platform that offers data protection, endpoint security and threat intelligence.

OpenText passes $3B in revenue and more than 14,000 employees in 60+ offices world-wide.

OpenText acquires Micro Focus to bring new capabilities of AI & Analytics, Application Delivery & Management, and IT Operations Management to support our customer’s growth.