Form 10-K
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 


FORM 10-K

 


(Mark One)

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                  to                 

Commission files number 0-27544

 


OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 


 

Canada   98-0154400
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation or organization)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)

275 Frank Tompa Drive,

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  N2L 0A1
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (519) 888-7111

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common stock without par value   NASDAQ

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

(Title of Class)

 


Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Large accelerated filer  ¨                    Accelerated filer  x                    Non-accelerated filer  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

Aggregate market value of the Registrant’s Common Shares held by non-affiliates, based on the closing price of the Common Shares as reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”) on December 31, 2006, was approximately $638.1 million. The number of the Registrant’s Common Shares outstanding as of September 4, 2007 was 50,295,512.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

See Item 15 under Part IV, in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 



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Part I

      

Item 1

   

Business

   3

Item 1A

   

Risk Factors

   11

Item 1B

   

Unresolved Staff Comments

   20

Item 2

   

Properties

   20

Item 3

   

Legal Proceedings

   20

Item 4

   

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

   20

Part II

      

Item 5

   

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

   21

Item 6

   

Selected Financial Data

   25

Item 7

   

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation

   25

Item 7A

   

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

   50

Item 8

   

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

   52

Item 9

   

Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

   97

Item 9A

   

Controls and Procedures

   97

Item 9B

   

Other Information

   98

Part III

      

Item 10

   

Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant

   99

Item 11

   

Executive Compensation

   103

Item 12

   

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

   122

Item 13

   

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

   124

Item 14

   

Principal Accountant Fees and Services

   124

Part IV

      

Item 15

   

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

   126

Signatures

   129

 

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PART I

Forward-Looking Statements

In addition to historical information, this Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. Words such as “anticipates”, “expects”, “intends”, “plans”, “believes”, “seeks”, “estimates”, “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” and variations of these words or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objections, performance or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks as well as uncertainties, including those discussed herein and in the notes to our financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2007, certain sections of which are incorporated herein by reference as set forth in Items 7 and 8 of this report. The actual results that we achieve may differ materially from any forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s opinions only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements. You should carefully review Part I Item 1A “Risk Factors” and other documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A number of factors may materially affect our business, financial condition, operating results and prospects. These factors include, but are not limited to, those set forth in part I Item 1A “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report. Any one of these factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from recent results or from our anticipated future results. You should not rely too heavily on the forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, because these forward-looking statements are relevant only as of the date they were made.

 

Item 1. Business

Overview

Open Text Corporation was incorporated on June 26, 1991 pursuant to articles of incorporation under the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) and continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act on December 29, 2005. We amended our articles on August 1, 1995 and November 16, 1995, respectively, and filed articles of amalgamation on June 30, 1992, December 29, 1995, July 1, 1997, July 1, 1998, July 1, 2000, July 1, 2002, July 1, 2003, July 1, 2004 and July 1, 2005. References herein to the “Company”, “Open Text”, “we” or “us” refer to Open Text Corporation and its subsidiaries. Our current principal office is at 275 Frank Tompa Drive, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 0A1, and our telephone number at that location is (519) 888-7111. Our internet address is www.opentext.com. Throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K: (i) the term “Fiscal 2007” means our fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2006 and ending on June 30, 2007; (ii) the term “Fiscal 2006” means our fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2005 and ending on June 30, 2006; and (iii) the term “Fiscal 2005” means our fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004 and ending on June 30, 2005. Unless otherwise indicated, all amounts included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are expressed in U.S. dollars.

Access to our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to these reports filed or furnished to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) may be obtained through the Investor Relations section of our website at www.opentext.com as soon as reasonably practical after we electronically file or furnish these reports. We do not charge for access to and viewing of these reports. Information on our Investor Relations page and our website is not part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any other securities filings of ours unless specifically incorporated herein by reference. In addition, our filings with the SEC may be accessed through the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system at www.sec.gov. All statements made in any of our securities filings, including all forward-looking statements or information, are made as of the date of the document in which the statement is included, and we do not assume or undertake any obligation to update any of those statements or documents unless we are required to do so by law.

 

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We review and evaluate our operations, strategy and finances by operating segment, as that term is defined in Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 131. Our operations fall into one dominant industry segment, being enterprise content management software. As a result, the components of our business are divided among geographic and not operational lines. Our major geographic segments are North America and Europe.

With respect to the information provided in this Item 1 on Form 10-K, there are no material differences between our two geographical segments or between any of our geographical segments and Open Text as a whole. Thus, unless otherwise indicated, the information presented in this Item 1 on Form 10-K reflects material details regarding the business of Open Text as a whole, unified entity. This treatment is consistent with the fact that enterprise content management software is Open Text’s one dominant business segment.

For information regarding the financial performance and the results of operation of our geographic segments for each of the years in the three year period ended June 30, 2007, see Note 12 “Segment Information” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The Company

We are the largest independent company providing Enterprise Content Management (“ECM”) software solutions, and as a result, we are a market leader in the ECM marketplace. Our products help our customers manage their critical business content from start to finish. We have specific products designed to assist companies with the management of their content revisions, approvals to archiving, and compliance with relevant regulatory requirements. Since the products and services we provide to our customers help to solve their content management challenges, we often use the term “solution” when we refer to either the products or services we provide to our customers. Our primary ECM solution, Livelink, enables corporations to manage traditional forms of content such as images, office documents, graphics and drawings, as well as to manage electronic content including web pages, email and video. Our solutions aim to allow users to gain access to view and manage all information related to a transaction or business process, without having to switch from one application to another.

ECM Software Solutions

Our ECM software solutions are tailored to address specific business problems or focus on vertical industries. Our ECM software solutions are focused in two general areas: (i) Business Applications and (ii) Vertical Industry.

Business Applications

Our business solutions are designed to meet both the regulatory compliance goals and the return on investment (“ROI”) goals of our customers, by resolving specific ECM challenges faced by the following functional areas: (i) research and development; (ii) finance; (iii) information systems and technology; and (iv) marketing and sales. We provide targeted business solutions for a variety of markets, many of which require compliance with increasingly stringent standards and regulations. Our ECM software solutions for business applications include:

Compliance and Governance

Our Solutions for Compliance and Governance offer a wide range of functionalities to fulfill legislative requirements. The solutions assist with: (i) enhancing business processes to generate faster time to market; (ii) complying with government regulations; and (iii) managing risk. With our solutions, customers can capture, classify, and manage large volumes of electronic data and documents—assisting with compliance to all regulatory requirements.

 

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Email Management

Our Solutions for Email Management are intended to allow customers to reduce the cost of overburdened email servers and help the organization mitigate its compliance and litigation risks associated with email content. Among other features, our email management solutions can assess, identify, and manage business content stored in email records in accordance with governmental regulations and with internal policies.

Corporate Services

Across most organizations, standard administrative services and functions support core business processes. The implementation of electronic workflow and documents can serve as an important factor in ensuring the success of an organization. Open Text Solutions for Corporate Services helps customers meet business goals through the management of processes such as: (i) environment, health and safety operations; (ii) facilities management; (iii) fleet and equipment management; (iv) legal support; (v) performance monitoring; (vi) quality control; (vii) travel management; and (ix) human resources.

Information Systems and Technology (“IT”)

Our IT solutions can help reduce costs in our customers’ IT departments through the development of efficient IT consolidation methods. Our ECM Solutions for IT help to deactivate legacy applications, as well as to reduce operating costs through data archiving services provided by either SAP AG (“SAP”) or Siebel Systems (“Siebel”), a division of Oracle Corporation (“Oracle”). Our solutions are designed to fit in an existing IT landscape by supporting many operating systems as well as databases and storage hardware. Our solutions streamline processes that include: (i) information lifecycle management; (ii) IT consolidation; (iii) IT operations; and (iv) SAP support.

Manufacturing and Operations

Our Solutions for Manufacturing and Operations can help customers improve the quality of their products, reduce product lifecycles, enforce standards, comply with regulations and decrease operational costs. These solutions address processes that include: (i) environment, health and safety operations; (ii) facilities management; (iii) fleet and equipment management; (iv) performance monitoring; (v) quality management; and (vi) product lifecycle management.

Vertical Industry

Our business solutions are also designed to meet regulatory compliance goals and the ROI goals of our customers, by resolving broad ECM challenges faced in particular industries. Many of these industries operate under strict government or industry regulation or require the dedication of considerable resources in the fulfillment of compliance functions.

Government

Our Solutions for Government are intended to provide government organizations with a fully-compliant framework that helps their agencies design Internet-based solutions to manage information and exchange knowledge. Through a focus on reducing or eliminating paper-based processes, our ECM solutions provide document and records management, secure project collaboration as well as workflow, search, and scheduling functionality for organizations in public services.

Legal

Open Text Solutions for Legal provide law firms with an integrated product offering developed specifically to support the business practices of law firms and to meet their proactive compliance needs

 

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throughout the lifecycle of the client engagement, from intake through to final disposition. Our software solutions provides an easy and efficient way to create, access, share, store, retrieve and retain critical information throughout the law firm.

Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

Generally, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies operate in a highly-regulated environment with long product lifecycles. Their operations tend to be both data and document intensive. Our Solutions for Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences are aimed at supporting critical ECM processes in which the management of paper and electronic records and documents, in a manner which emulates best practices in compliance, is essential. Customers can choose from a variety of interfaces such as email, web browsers and office and specialty applications, and this flexibility allows users to work in the environment most natural to them.

Financial Services

Our Solutions for Financial Services are intended to: (i) enhance collaboration; (ii) ensure that customers minimize risk due to litigation or the failure to comply with industry standards or government regulations; and (iii) enable financial services organizations to foster a culture that facilitates the flow of knowledge and information throughout an organization in a compliant manner. Customers in numerous segments of the financial services industry including: (i) banking, (ii) securities sales and trading, and (iii) wealth management, have used our solutions.

Energy

Our Solutions for Energy are designed to meet the ECM requirements of the oil and gas, petrochemical, nuclear generation and electricity generation and transmission industries by facilitating the acquisition, discussion, revision and re-distribution of critical information.

Media

Open Text Solutions for Media can help customers to efficiently and economically manage the production, brand management, and distribution of rich media assets. Our Solutions for Media are designed to manage the explosive growth of digital content produced, shared, and distributed throughout the world.

Manufacturing and Production

Our Solutions for Manufacturing can accelerate critical information flow and reduce time to market for manufacturing companies. Our solutions aim to secure, age and archive information, thus allowing functional business units such as research, development, legal, finance and marketing to more easily retrieve and utilize data. This ability to retrieve and utilize data allows manufacturing companies to develop a best practices methodology to conduct their business through an understanding of lessons learned from past experiences. Thus, our Solutions for Manufacturing allow our customers to retain and harness key pieces of information that are essential to the successful development of future products and markets.

The Value Proposition of Our ECM Software Solutions

As demonstrated above, our overall value proposition is anchored in three main areas:

 

  1. Assure regulatory compliance by defining, securing, and controlling the process by which content can be managed as business records under appropriate policies for retention and destruction.

 

  2. Maximize our customers’ ROI by maximizing their current investment in technology platforms. For instance, our software is compatible with many familiar software platforms, such as those provided by Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”), SAP and Oracle.

 

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  3. Rationalize information to and from the customer’s enterprise applications to enhance operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and improve performance.

Connectivity Solutions

For many IT professionals, integrating heterogeneous legacy environments with modern Microsoft Windows (“Windows”) desktops represents a technical and financial puzzle. As a result, we also provide connectivity solutions to help our customers respond to this challenge. Open Text’s Hummingbird Connectivity Solutions offer a suite of technology solutions that help organizations meet the challenges of integrating heterogeneous legacy environments with modern Windows desktops. Our Hummingbird Connectivity Solutions are multi-platform and provide software support for enterprise desktops on various Windows platforms including Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista. The Hummingbird Connectivity Solutions features a robust and complete security set across all of its components, which helps organizations meet their security and compliance objectives.

Our Recent Acquisitions

Our competitive position in the marketplace requires us to maintain a complex and evolving array of technologies, products, services and capabilities. The combination of technological complexity and rapid change within our industry makes it difficult for a single company to provide all of the technological solutions that its customers request. In light of the continually evolving marketplace in which we operate, and as part of our operations, we regularly evaluate various acquisition opportunities within the ECM marketplace and elsewhere in the high technology industry. If we determine that a potential acquisition opportunity is in the best interest of our shareholders, we will conduct negotiations with the relevant entity or entities to discuss the possibility of a merger, acquisition or other mutually beneficial combination of operations. Successful negotiations lead to an agreement to enter into a merger, acquisition or combination transaction, and eventually to a completed transaction that improves our ability to compete in our chosen industry.

In Fiscal 2007, we continued to invest in expanding and improving our ECM solutions by acquiring:

 

   

Hummingbird Ltd (“Hummingbird”), a Toronto based global provider of ECM solutions, in October 2006; and

 

   

Momentum Systems Inc. (“Momentum”), a Virginia based company, which has been serving the government sector for over 12 years, in March 2007.

Partner Program

We partner with prominent organizations in enterprise software and hardware in an effort to enhance the value of our ECM solutions and the investments our customers have made in their existing systems.

We are involved with three categories of partnerships and alliances, along with three levels of participation available in each category.

1. Services Partners are primarily system integrators and consulting and outsourcing firms. Their expertise may include: strategy, design, implementation, change management, project management, customization and specific vertical market and domain expertise. Service partners are able to combine their vision and their expertise with our products and services to deliver high-value customer solutions.

2. Solution Partners deliver comprehensive, repeatable solutions utilizing our products and services that target a specific business unit or vertical industry. Their expertise may include: vertical domain expertise, systems integration, and application development.

 

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3. Technology Partners are vendors whose software and/or hardware offerings both complement and extend the value of our product offerings. These partners offer our customers best-of-breed technology components, which can be seamlessly integrated with our products and services. Their expertise may include: (i) hardware and software components, (ii) database management systems, and (iii) specific application environments.

Open Text and Microsoft Corporation

Our strategic alliance with Microsoft offers improved integration between our ECM solutions and Microsoft’s desktop and server products, such as Microsoft “Share Point”. Our solutions increasingly rely on Microsoft Outlook as a ubiquitous user interface for accessing content in context. The integration of our solutions with Microsoft Outlook allows our customer to automatically extract information from enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, ECM and other enterprise applications when such customer opens any piece of email. This context allows knowledge workers to make decisions and take actions, all through the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface. In addition to email, Microsoft SharePoint provides functionality for team collaboration and document sharing. We offer solutions that allow our customers to realize SharePoint’s ease of use, while seamlessly tying into established retention policies for enterprise content in areas such as archiving and records retention. In addition, we have expanded our support for the latest Microsoft database technology to help our customers manage and retrieve information stored on their servers.

Open Text and Oracle Corporation

This partnership extends our recently-launched enterprise solutions framework, and builds upon the decade-long database integration relationship between us and Oracle. The partnership with Oracle allows us to focus on building content-enabled solutions that solve complex, industry-specific problems. We build comprehensive solutions directly on the Oracle Content Database infrastructure using new Oracle Fusion technology. Our alliance with Oracle enables our customers to fortify their existing investments in accounts payable invoice processing, and report and output management solutions from Oracle. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that enhance Oracle applications such as PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, JD Edwards World, Oracle E-Business Suite, and Siebel.

Open Text and SAP AG

We have shared two decades of partnership and co-development with SAP. Our solutions help customers improve the way they manage content from SAP systems in order to improve efficiency in key processes, manage compliance and reduce costs. Our targeted solutions let customers create, access, manage and securely archive all content for SAP systems, including data and documents. In addition, our solutions for SAP allow customers to address stringent requirements for risk reduction, operational efficiency and information technology consolidation. Our SAP solutions embrace the SAP environment including SAPGUI, Portal and Netweaver.

In May 2007, we announced a joint worldwide offering with SAP to help companies efficiently manage the growing amount of data and documents crucial to effective business operations. Using our Livelink ECM solutions, SAP will resell applications marketed under the names “SAP Archiving by Open Text” and “SAP Document Access by Open Text.” The archiving and document access applications are targeted toward the financial services industry as well as toward public sector organizations, healthcare companies and other service organizations.

Service Partners

Service partners include System Integrators and Consultants in particular industry segments that have specific named accounts which complement the efforts of our direct sales force. Our service partners often have domain expertise in application or industry segments, proven methodologies in specific market segments, the ability to provide business and/or technology consulting along with application development, work closely with internal direct sales and consulting services and offer rates aligned with our professional services rates.

 

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We have three levels of Service Partners. The “Select level” is our entry level which includes partners who are interested in integrating with our solutions or developing new applications based on our family of products. Select partners receive base-level support and partner-specific communications. The “Premier level” consists of customers that are actively reselling or co-selling their solutions with us. Premier partners receive a high level of support from us in return for a strong commitment to working with us in many areas. The “Platinum level” is our highest level of partnership. Partners at this level make significant commitments to their partnership with us by collaborating with all operational groups within our company to develop, sell, and service solutions based on the Open Text family of products. Platinum partners receive dedicated account management.

Solution Partners

Solution Partners have the proven ability to automate and re-engineer complex business processes that include vertical domain expertise, systems integration, and application development. Their service offerings often include implementation, consulting, customization, integration, training, and support. Solution Partners provide the subject matter and vertical application expertise that adds measurable value to a customer’s investment in one of our solutions, delivering high-value, and comprehensive, repeatable solutions.

Our partners can be any of the three types of partners listed above: Select, Premier or Platinum.

Competition

The market for our products is highly competitive and competition will continue to intensify as the ECM markets consolidate. We compete with a large number of ECM providers, management companies, web content management businesses, as well as management, workflow, document imaging and electronic document management companies. International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) is the largest company that competes directly with us in the ECM market. On October 12, 2006, IBM acquired FileNet Corporation (“FileNet”), a leading provider of business process and content management solutions. This acquisition of FileNet made IBM a more significant competitor for our business. Another significant competitor is EMC Corporation (“EMC”), a large storage technology company. On December 19, 2003, EMC acquired Documentum, Inc. (“Documentum”), a competitor to us in the content management market. As a result of the Documentum acquisition, EMC became a more significant competitor through its ability to offer both content management and storage management capabilities. In addition to the competition posed by both IBM and EMC, numerous smaller software vendors also compete in each product area. We also face competition from systems integrators who configure hardware and software into customized systems.

Large infrastructure vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft have developed products, or plan to offer products, in the content management market. Other large infrastructure vendors may follow course. On December 14, 2006, Oracle completed its acquisition of Stellent Inc., a global provider of ECM software solutions. The acquisition of Stellent is expected to complement and broaden Oracle’s existing content management solutions portfolio.

Software vendors such as CA, Inc. and Symantec Corporation have approached the ECM market from their distinct, individual market segments, and each company may compete more intensely with us in the future. Additionally, new competitors or alliances among existing competitors may emerge and rapidly acquire significant market share. We also expect that competition will increase as a result of ongoing software industry consolidation.

We believe that the principal competitive factors affecting the market for our software products and services include: (i) vendor and product reputation; (ii) product quality, performance and price; (iii) the availability of software products on multiple platforms; (iv) product scalability; (v) product integration with other enterprise applications; (vi) software functionality and features; (vii) software ease of use; and (viii) the quality of professional services, customer support services and training. We believe the relative importance of each of these factors depends upon the concerns and needs of each specific customer.

 

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Research and Development of Our ECM Solutions

The industry in which we compete is subject to rapid technological developments, evolving industry standards, changes in customer requirements and competitive new products and features. As a result, our success, in part, depends on our ability to continue to enhance our existing products in a timely and efficient manner and to develop and introduce new products that meet customer needs while reducing total cost of ownership. To achieve these objectives we have made and expect to continue to make substantial investments in research and development, through internal and third-party development activities, third-party licensing agreements and potentially through technology acquisitions. Our research and development expenses were approximately $79.1 million for Fiscal 2007, $58.5 million for Fiscal 2006, and $65.1 million for Fiscal 2005.

New Product Developments

In February, we hosted “Summit 2007”, which is the worldwide user conference for Hummingbird customers and partners. At this conference, we unveiled details of our next generation ECM offering, which we have named DMX. This product represents the convergence of Open Text and Hummingbird technologies. With DMX, Hummingbird customers will have the opportunity to take advantage of a wider variety of “Open Text” applications, while retaining the ability to maximize the values that they have invested in their Hummingbird enterprise deployments.

In April 2007, we hosted two “LiveLinkUp Europe” events, one in Munich and one in London. During these “LiveLinkUp Europe” events, we outlined our strategic vision for the ECM marketplace and demonstrated how the new, enhanced capabilities of Livelink ECM 10 will help customers achieve enterprise transparency, thus allowing them to use Livelink ECM 10 to further their business objectives.

Our records management offerings continue to drive our strategic relations and tight integration with partners, such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. The introduction of Livelink ECM™—Records Management for use with SAP® applications was one of our most significant developments during Fiscal 2007. Livelink ECM™—Records Management will be marketed and supported by SAP and by Open Text. U.S. federal government customers of SAP and Open Text will now have a fully integrated solution to help them implement comprehensive records management programs.

Intellectual Property Rights

Our success and ability to compete depend on our ability to develop and maintain our intellectual property and proprietary technology and to operate without infringing on the proprietary rights of others. Our software products are generally licensed to our customers on a non-exclusive basis for internal use in a customer’s organization. We also grant rights in our intellectual property to third parties that allow them to market certain of our products on a non-exclusive or limited-scope exclusive basis for a particular application of the product(s) or to a particular geographic area.

We rely on a combination of copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret laws, non-disclosure agreements and other contractual provisions to establish and maintain our proprietary rights. We have obtained or applied for trademark registration for most strategic product names in most major markets. As of June 30, 2007, we own five U.S. patents which expire between 2017 and 2025, one Canadian patent which expires in 2017 and six other foreign patents which expire between 2022 and 2024. In addition, we have 14 U.S. patent applications, four Canadian patent applications and nine other foreign patent applications. Some of these patents and patent applications have been filed in other jurisdictions.

Customers

No single customer has accounted for more than 10% of our revenue in Fiscal 2005, Fiscal 2006 or Fiscal 2007.

 

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Employees

As of June 30, 2007, we employed a total of 2,704 individuals. The composition of this employee base is approximately as follows: (i) 592 employees in sales and marketing, (ii) 679 employees in product development, (iii) 556 employees in professional services, (iv) 463 employees in customer support, and (v) 414 employees in general and administrative roles. We believe that relations with our employees are strong.

Financial Information With Respect to Our Geographical Segments

For information regarding the financial performance and the results of operation of our geographic segments for each of the years in the three year period ended June 30, 2007, see Note 12 “Segment Information” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors

Risk Factors

In addition to historical information, this Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “believe,” “project,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “strategy,” “plan,” “may,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “will be,” “will continue,” “will likely result,” and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks as well as uncertainties, including those discussed in the following cautionary statements and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The actual results that we achieve may differ materially from any forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s opinions only as of the date hereof. You should carefully review the following factors, as well as the other information set forth herein, when evaluating us and our business. If any of the following risks were to occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations would likely suffer. In that event, the trading price of our Common Shares would likely decline. Such risks are further discussed in the information we file with the SEC throughout the course of the year. We undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only risks and uncertainties facing us. Our business is also subject to general risks and uncertainties that affect many other companies.

Our acquisition of Hummingbird may adversely affect our operations and finances in the short term

On October 2, 2006, we acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Hummingbird. The Hummingbird shares were acquired for cash. To help pay for the Hummingbird acquisition, we needed to borrow the necessary funds from a syndicate of leading financial institutions. The interest costs associated with this credit facility will materially increase our operating expenses, which may materially and adversely affect our profitability as well as the price of our Common Shares. Our ability to pay interest and repay the principal for the indebtedness we incurred as a result of our acquisition of Hummingbird depends upon our ability to manage our business operations and the other factors discussed below in this Item 1A. The Hummingbird acquisition represents a significant and unique opportunity for our business. However, the size of the acquisition and the inevitable integration challenges that will result from the acquisition may divert management’s attention from the normal daily operations of our existing businesses, products and services. We cannot ensure that we will be successful in retaining key Hummingbird employees. In addition, our operations may be disrupted if we fail to adequately retain and motivate all of the employees of the newly merged entity.

 

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Our success depends on our relationships with strategic partners

We rely on close cooperation with partners for sales and product development as well as for the optimization of opportunities which arise in our competitive environment. If any of our partners should decide for any reason to terminate or reduce its cooperative efforts with us, our business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected.

If we do not continue to develop new technologically advanced products, future revenues will be negatively affected

Our success depends upon our ability to design, develop, test, market, license and support new software products and enhancements of current products on a timely basis in response to both competitive threats and marketplace demands. In addition, new software products and enhancements must remain compatible with standard platforms and file formats. We continue to enhance the capability of our Livelink software to enable users to form workgroups and collaborate on private intranets as well as on the Internet. Often, we must integrate software licensed or acquired from third parties with our proprietary software to create or improve our products. These products are important to the success of our strategy. If we are unable to achieve a successful integration with third party software, we may not be successful in developing and marketing our new software products and enhancements. If we are unable to successfully integrate the technologies to develop new software products and enhancements to existing products, or to complete products currently under development which we license or acquire from third parties, our operating results will materially suffer. In addition, if the integrated or new products or enhancements do not achieve acceptance by the marketplace, our operating results will materially suffer. Also, if new industry standards emerge that we do not anticipate or adapt to, our software products could be rendered obsolete and, as a result, our business, as well as our ability to compete in the marketplace, would be materially harmed.

Our investment in our current research and development efforts may not provide a sufficient, timely return

The development of ECM software products is a costly, complex and time-consuming process, and the investment in ECM software product development often involves a long wait until a return is achieved on such an investment. We make and will continue to make significant investments in software research and development and related product opportunities. Investments in new technology and processes are inherently speculative. Commercial success depends on many factors including the degree of innovation of the products developed through our research and development efforts, sufficient support from our strategic partners, and effective distribution and marketing. Accelerated product introductions and short product life cycles require high levels of expenditures for research and development. These expenditures may adversely affect our operating results if they are not offset by revenue increases. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our research and development efforts in order to maintain our competitive position. However, significant revenue from new product and service investments may not be achieved for a number of years, if at all. Moreover, new products and services may not be profitable, and even if they are profitable, operating margins for new products and businesses may not be as high as the margins we have experienced for our current or historical products and services.

If our products and services do not gain market acceptance, we may not be able to increase our revenues

We intend to pursue our strategy of growing the capabilities of our ECM software offerings through our proprietary research and the development of new product offerings. In response to customer requests, we continue: (i) to enhance Livelink and many of our optional components; and (ii) to set the standard for ECM capabilities. The primary market for our software and services is rapidly evolving which means that the level of acceptance of products and services that have been released recently or that are planned for future release by the marketplace is not certain. If the markets for our products and services fail to develop, develop more slowly than expected or become subject to intense competition, our business will suffer. As a result, we may be unable to: (i) successfully market our current products and services, (ii) develop new software products, services and

 

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enhancements to current products and services, (iii) complete customer installations on a timely basis, or (iv) complete products and services currently under development. If our products and services are not accepted by our customers or by other businesses in the marketplace, our business and operating results will be materially affected.

Current and future competitors could have a significant impact on our ability to generate future revenue and profits

The markets for our products are intensely competitive, and are subject to rapid technological change and other pressures created by changes in our industry. We expect competition to increase and intensify in the future as the pace of technological change and adaptation quickens and as additional companies enter into each of our markets. Numerous releases of competitive products have occurred in recent history and may be expected to continue in the near future. We may not be able to compete effectively with current competitors and potential entrants into our marketplace. We could lose market share if our current or prospective competitors introduce new competitive products, add new functionality to existing products, acquire competitive products, reduce prices or form strategic alliances with other companies. If other businesses were to engage in aggressive pricing policies with respect to competing products, or if the dynamics in our marketplace resulted in increasing bargaining power by the consumers of our products and services, we would need to lower the prices we charge for the products we offer. This could result in lower revenues or reduced margins, either of which may materially and adversely affect our business and operating results.

We are confronting two inexorable trends in our industry; the consolidation of our competitors and the commoditization of our products and services

EMC’s acquisition of Documentum in December 2003 and IBM’s acquisition of FileNet in October 2006 have changed the marketplace for our goods and services. As a result of these acquisitions, two comparable competitors to our company have been replaced by larger and better capitalized companies. In addition, other large corporations with considerable financial resources either have products that compete with the products we offer, or have the ability to encroach on our competitive position within our marketplace. These large, well-capitalized companies have the financial resources to engage in competition with our products and services on the basis of marketing, services or support. They also have the ability to introduce items that compete with our maturing products and services. The threat posed by larger competitors and the goods and services that these companies may be able to produce at a lower cost to our target customers may materially increase our expenses and reduce our revenues. Any material adverse effect on our revenue or cost structure may materially reduce the price of our Common Shares.

Acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and other business initiatives may negatively affect our operating results

We continue to seek out opportunities to acquire or invest in businesses, products and technologies that expand, complement or otherwise relate to our current business. We also consider from time to time, opportunities to engage in joint ventures or other business collaborations with third parties to address particular market segments. These activities create risks such as the need to integrate and manage the businesses and products acquired with our own business and products, additional demands on our management, resources, systems, procedures and controls, disruption of our ongoing business, and diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns. Moreover, these transactions could involve: (i) substantial investment of funds; (ii) substantial investment with respect to technology transfers; and (iii) the acquisition or disposition of product lines or businesses. Also, such activities could result in one-time charges and expenses and have the potential to either dilute the interests of existing shareholders or result in the assumption of debt. Such acquisitions, investments, joint ventures or other business collaborations may involve significant commitments of financial and other resources of our company. Any such activity may not be successful in generating revenue, income or other returns to us, and the financial or other resources committed to such activities will not be available to us for

 

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other purposes. Our inability to address limited growth opportunities for products, as well our inability to address other risks associated with other acquisitions or investments in businesses, may negatively affect our operating results. In addition, impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets acquired in an acquisition or in an investment, or charges to earnings associated with any acquisition or investment activity, may materially reduce our earnings which, in turn, may have an adverse material affect on the price of our common shares.

Businesses we acquire may have disclosure controls and procedures and internal controls over financial reporting that are weaker than or otherwise not in conformity with ours

We have a history of acquiring complementary businesses with varying levels of organizational size and complexity. Upon consummating an acquisition, we seek to implement our disclosure controls and procedures as well as our internal controls over financial reporting at the acquired company as promptly as possible. Depending upon the size and complexity of the business acquired, the implementation of our disclosure controls and procedures as well as the implementation of our internal controls over financial reporting at an acquired company may be a lengthy process. Typically, we conduct due diligence prior to consummating an acquisition; however, our integration efforts may periodically expose deficiencies in the disclosure controls and procedures as well as in internal controls over financial reporting of an acquired company. We expect that the process involved in completing the integration of our own disclosure controls and procedures as well as our own internal controls over financial reporting at an acquired business will sufficiently correct any identified deficiencies. However, if such deficiencies exist, we may not be in a position to comply with our periodic reporting requirements and, as a result, our business and financial condition may be materially harmed.

We must continue to manage our growth or our operating results could be adversely affected

Our markets have continued to evolve at a rapid pace. Moreover, we have grown significantly through acquisitions in the past and continue to review acquisition opportunities as a means of increasing the size and scope of our business. Finally, we have been subject to increased regulation, including various NASDAQ rules and Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002, which has necessitated a significant use of our resources to comply with the increased level of regulation on a timely basis. Our growth, coupled with the rapid evolution of our markets and more stringent regulations, have placed, and will continue to place, significant strains on our administrative and operational resources and increased demands on our internal systems, procedures and controls. Our administrative infrastructure, systems, procedures and controls may not adequately support our operations or compliance with such regulations. In addition, our management may not be able to achieve the rapid, effective execution of the product and business initiatives necessary to successfully implement our operational and competitive strategy and to comply with all regulatory rules. If we are unable to manage growth effectively, or comply with such new regulations, our operating results will likely suffer. Our inability to manage growth or adapt to regulatory changes may also adversely affect our compliance with our periodic reporting requirements or listing standards, which could result in the delisting of our common shares from the NASDAQ stock market or in our failure to comply with the rules and the regulations of the SEC.

Recently enacted and proposed changes in securities laws and related regulations could result in increased costs to us

Recently enacted and proposed changes in the laws and regulations affecting public companies, including the provisions of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act, 2002, and recent rules proposed and enacted by the SEC and NASDAQ, have materially increased our expenses as we respond to the these changes. In particular, compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes—Oxley Act, 2002, has resulted in a higher level of internal costs and fees from our independent accounting firm and as well as from external consultants. These rules could also adversely affect our ability to obtain certain types of insurance at a reasonable cost, including director and officer liability insurance. As a result, we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage and/or incur substantially higher premiums and related costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. The increased difficulty to obtain affordable director and officer liability insurance could also make it more difficult for us to

 

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attract and retain qualified persons to serve: (i) on our Board of Directors; (ii) on committees of our Board of Directors; or (iii) as executive officers.

Changes in accounting may affect our reported earnings and operating income

Generally accepted accounting principles and accompanying accounting pronouncements, implementation guidelines, and interpretations for many aspects of our business, such as revenue recognition for our products and services, accounting for investments, and treatment of goodwill or amortizable intangible assets, are highly complex and involve subjective judgments. Changes in these rules or their interpretation could significantly change our reported earnings and operating income and could add significant volatility to those measures, but may have no effect on our generation of cash flow from operations. See Note 2 in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” and see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation—Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” each contained within this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

If we are not able to attract and retain top employees, our ability to compete may be harmed

Our performance is substantially dependent on the performance of our executive officers and key employees. The loss of the services of any of our executive officers or other key employees could significantly harm our business. We do not maintain “key person” life insurance policies on any of our employees. Our success is also highly dependent on our continuing ability to identify, hire, train, retain and motivate highly qualified management, technical, sales and marketing personnel. In particular, the recruitment of top research developers and experienced salespeople remains critical to our success. Competition for such people is intense, substantial and continuous, and we may not be able to attract, integrate or retain highly qualified technical, sales or managerial personnel in the future. In addition, in our effort to attract and retain critical personnel, we may experience increased compensation costs that are not offset by either improved productivity or higher prices for our products or services.

Our awards of stock options to employees may have an adverse impact on our operations

A portion of our total compensation program for our executive officers and key personnel includes the award of options to buy our Common Shares. If the price of our Common Shares performs poorly, such performance may adversely affect our ability to retain or attract critical personnel. In addition, any changes made to our stock option policies, or to any other of our compensation practices, which are made necessary by governmental regulations or competitive pressures could affect our ability to retain and motivate existing personnel and recruit new personnel.

The length of our sales cycle can fluctuate significantly which could result in significant fluctuations in license revenue being recognized from quarter to quarter

The decision by a customer to purchase our products often involves a comprehensive implementation process across our customer’s network or networks. As a result, licenses of these products may entail a significant commitment of resources by prospective customers, accompanied by the attendant risks and delays frequently associated with significant expenditures and lengthy sales cycle and implementation procedures. Given the significant investment and commitment of resources required by an organization to implement our software, our sales cycle may be longer compared to companies in other industries. Over the past fiscal year, we have experienced a lengthening of our sales cycle as customers include more personnel in their decisions and focus on more enterprise-wide licensing deals. In an economic environment of reduced information technology spending, it may take several months, or even several quarters, for marketing opportunities to materialize. If a customer’s decision to license our software is delayed or if the installation of our products takes longer than originally anticipated, the date on which we may recognize revenue from these licenses would be delayed. Such delays could cause our revenues to be lower than expected in a particular period.

 

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Our international operations expose us to business risks that could cause our operating results to suffer

We intend to continue to make efforts to increase our international operations and anticipate that international sales will continue to account for a significant portion of our revenue. We have increased our presence in the European market, especially since our acquisition of IXOS Software AG (“IXOS”). These international operations are subject to certain risks and costs, including the difficulty and expense of administering business and compliance abroad, compliance with domestic and foreign laws (including without limitation domestic and international import and export laws and regulations), costs related to localizing products for foreign markets, and costs related to translating and distributing products in a timely manner. International operations also tend to be subject to a longer sales and collection cycle. In addition, regulatory limitations regarding the repatriation of earnings may adversely affect the transfer of cash earned from foreign operations. Significant international sales may also expose us to greater risk from political and economic instability, unexpected changes in Canadian, United States or other governmental policies concerning import and export of goods and technology, regulatory requirements, tariffs and other trade barriers. Additionally, international earnings may be subject to taxation by more than one jurisdiction, which may materially adversely affect our effective tax rate. Also, international expansion may be more difficult, time consuming, and costly. As a result, if revenues from international operations do not offset the expenses of establishing and maintaining foreign operations, our operating results will suffer. Moreover, in any given quarter, foreign exchange rates may adversely affect our revenue, earnings or other financial measures.

Our expenses may not match anticipated revenues

We incur operating expenses based upon anticipated revenue trends. Since a high percentage of these expenses are relatively fixed, a delay in recognizing revenue from transactions related to these expenses could cause significant variations in operating results from quarter to quarter and, as a result, such a delay could materially reduce operating income. If these expenses are not subsequently followed by revenues, our business, financial condition, or results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. In addition, in July 2005, we announced our 2006 restructuring initiative to restructure our operations with the intention of streamlining our operations. Subsequently, in October 2006 we announced our commitment to a separate restructuring initiative in response to the Hummingbird acquisition. We may incur costs associated with combining Hummingbird’s operations with our own operations beyond those costs contemplated in the Hummingbird restructuring initiative, which may be substantial. Some of these restructuring costs may have to be treated as expenses which would decrease our net income and earnings per share for the periods in which those adjustments are made. We will continue to evaluate our operations, and may propose future restructuring actions as a result of changes in the marketplace, including the exit from less profitable operations or the decision to terminate services which are not valued by our customers. Any failure to successfully execute these initiatives on a timely basis may have a material adverse impact on our operations.

Our products may contain defects that could harm our reputation, be costly to correct, delay revenues, and expose us to litigation

Our products are highly complex and sophisticated and, from time to time, may contain design defects or software errors that are difficult to detect and correct. Errors may be found in new software products or improvements to existing products after commencement of shipments to our customers. If these defects are discovered, we may not be able to successfully correct such errors in a timely manner. In addition, despite the extensive tests we conduct on all our products, we may not be able to fully simulate the environment in which our products will operate and, as a result, we may be unable to adequately detect the design defects or software errors which may become apparent only after the products are installed in an end-user’s network. The occurrence of errors and failures in our products could result in the delay or the denial of market acceptance of our products; alleviating such errors and failures may require us to make significant expenditure of our resources. The harm to our reputation resulting from product errors and failures may be materially damaging. Since we regularly provide a warranty with our products, the financial impact of fulfilling warranty obligations may be significant in the future. Our agreements with our strategic partners and end-users typically contain provisions designed to limit

 

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our exposure to claims. These agreements usually contain terms such as the exclusion of all implied warranties and the limitation of the availability of consequential or incidental damages. However, such provisions may not effectively protect us against claims and the attendant liabilities and costs associated with such claims. Although we maintain errors and omissions insurance coverage and comprehensive liability insurance coverage, such coverage may not be adequate to cover all such claims. Accordingly, any such claim could negatively affect our financial condition.

Failure to protect our intellectual property could harm our ability to compete effectively

We are highly dependent on our ability to protect our proprietary technology. We rely on a combination of copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as non-disclosure agreements and other contractual provisions to establish and maintain our proprietary rights. Although we hold certain patents and have other patents pending, our general strategy is to not seek patent protection. We intend to protect our rights vigorously; however, there can be no assurance that these measures will, in all cases, be successful. Enforcement of our intellectual property rights may be difficult, particularly in some nations outside of North America in which we seek to market our products. While U.S. and Canadian copyright laws, international conventions and international treaties may provide meaningful protection against unauthorized duplication of software, the laws of some foreign jurisdictions may not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of Canada or of the United States. The absence of harmonized intellectual property laws makes it more difficult to ensure consistent respect for our proprietary rights. Software piracy has been, and is expected to be, a persistent problem for the software industry, and piracy of our products represents a loss of revenue to us. Certain of our license arrangements have required us to make a limited confidential disclosure of portions of the source code for our products, or to place such source code into an escrow for the protection of another party. Despite the precautions we have taken, unauthorized third parties, including our competitors, may be able to: (i) copy certain portions of our products; or (ii) reverse engineer or obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. Also, our competitors could independently develop technologies that are perceived to be substantially equivalent or superior to our technologies. Our competitive position may be adversely affected by our possible inability to effectively protect our intellectual property.

Other companies may claim that we infringe their intellectual property, which could materially increase costs and materially harm our ability to generate future revenue and profits

Claims of infringement are becoming increasingly common as the software industry develops and as related legal protections, including patents, are applied to software products. Although we do not believe that our products infringe on the rights of third-parties, third-parties may assert infringement claims against us in the future. Although most of our technology is proprietary in nature, we do include certain third party software in our products. In these cases, this software is licensed from the entity holding our intellectual property rights. Although we believe that we have secured proper licenses for all third-party software that is integrated into our products, third parties may assert infringement claims against us in the future. Any such assertion may result in litigation or may require us to obtain a license for the intellectual property rights of third-parties. Such licenses may not be available, or they may not be available on reasonable terms. In addition, such litigation could be disruptive to our ability to generate revenue and may result in significantly increased costs as a result of our defense against those claims or our attempt to license the patents or rework our products to ensure they comply with judicial decisions. Any of the foregoing could have a significant adverse impact on our ability to generate future revenue and profits.

The loss of licenses to use third party software or the lack of support or enhancement of such software could adversely affect our business

We currently depend upon a limited number of third-party software products. If such software products were not available, we may experience delays or increased costs in the development of licenses for our products. For a limited number of product modules, we rely on software products that we license from third-parties,

 

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including software that is integrated with internally developed software and which is used in our products to perform key functions. These third-party software licenses may not continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, and the related software may not continue to be appropriately supported, maintained, or enhanced by the licensors. The loss by us of the license to use, or the inability by licensors to support, maintain, and enhance any of such software, could result in increased costs or in delays or reductions in product shipments until equivalent software is developed or licensed and integrated with internally developed software. Such increased costs or delays or reductions in product shipments could adversely affect our business.

A reduction in the number or sales efforts by distributors could materially impact our revenues

A significant portion of our revenue is derived from the license of our products through third parties. Our success will depend, in part, upon our ability to maintain access to existing channels of distribution and to gain access to new channels if and when they develop. We may not be able to retain a sufficient number of our existing distributors or develop a sufficient number of future distributors. Distributors may also give higher priority to the sale of products other than ours (which could include competitors’ products) or may not devote sufficient resources to marketing our products. The performance of third party distributors is largely outside of our control and we are unable to predict the extent to which these distributors will be successful in marketing and licensing our products. A reduction in sales efforts, a decline in the number of distributors, or a decision by our distributors to discontinue the sale of our products could materially reduce revenue.

Our products rely on the stability of infrastructure software that, if not stable, could negatively impact the effectiveness of our products, resulting in harm to our reputation and business

Our developments of Internet and intranet applications depend and will depend on the stability, functionality and scalability of the infrastructure software of the underlying intranet, such as the infrastructure software produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Oracle, Microsoft and others. If weaknesses in such infrastructure software exist, we may not be able to correct or compensate for such weaknesses. If we are unable to address weaknesses resulting from problems in the infrastructure software such that our products do not meet customer needs or expectations, our reputation, and consequently, our business may be significantly harmed.

Business disruptions may adversely affect our operations

Our business and operations are highly automated and a disruption or failure of our systems may delay our ability to complete sales and to provide services. A major disaster or other catastrophic event that results in the destruction or disruption of any of our critical business or information technology systems could severely affect our ability to conduct normal business operations. This possible disruption may materially and adversely affect our future operating results.

Our quarterly revenues and operating results are likely to fluctuate which could materially impact the price of our Common Shares

We experience, and we are likely to continue to experience, significant fluctuations in quarterly revenues and operating results caused by many factors, including:

 

   

Changes in the demand for our products and for the products of our competitors;

 

   

The introduction or enhancement of products by us and by our competitors;

 

   

Market acceptance of enhancements or products;

 

   

Delays in the introduction of products or enhancements by us or by our competitors;

 

   

Customer order deferrals in anticipation of upgrades and new products;

 

   

Changes in the lengths of sales cycles;

 

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Changes in our pricing policies or those of our competitors;

 

   

Delays in product installation with customers;

 

   

The mix of distribution channels through which products are licensed;

 

   

The mix of products and services sold;

 

   

The mix of international and North American revenues;

 

   

Foreign currency exchange rates;

 

   

Acquisitions;

 

   

The timing of restructuring charges taken in connection with any completed acquisition;

 

   

General economic and business conditions; and

 

   

General political developments, such as international trade policies and the war on terrorism.

A general weakening of the global economy, or economic or business uncertainty created by North American or international political developments, could cancel or delay customer purchases. A cancellation or deferral of even a small number of licenses or delays in the installation of our products could have a material adverse effect on our operations in any particular quarter. As a result of the timing of product introductions and the rapid evolution of our business as well as of the markets we serve, we cannot predict whether seasonal patterns experienced in the past will continue. For these reasons, you should not rely upon period-to-period comparisons of our financial results to forecast future performance. Our quarterly revenue and operating results may vary significantly and this possible variance could materially reduce the market price of our Common Shares.

The volatility of our stock price could lead to losses by shareholders

The market price of our Common Shares has been subject to wide fluctuations. Such fluctuations in market price may continue in response to: (i) quarterly variations in operating results; (ii) announcements of technological innovations or new products that are relevant to our industry; (iii) changes in financial estimates by securities analysts; or (iv) other events or factors. In addition, financial markets experience significant price and volume fluctuations that particularly affect the market prices of equity securities of many technology companies. These fluctuations have often resulted from the failure of such companies to meet market expectations in a particular quarter, and thus such fluctuations may or may not be related to the underlying operating performance of such companies. Broad market fluctuations or any failure of our operating results in a particular quarter to meet market expectations may adversely affect the market price of our Common Shares. Occasionally, periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities may lead to the institution of securities class action litigation against a company. Due to the volatility of our stock price, we may be the target of such securities litigation in the future. Such legal action could result in substantial costs to defend our interests and a diversion of management’s attention and resources, each of which would have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results.

We may become involved in litigation that may materially adversely affect us

From time to time in the ordinary course of our business, we may become involved in various legal proceedings, including commercial, product liability, employment, class action and other litigation and claims, as well as governmental and other regulatory investigations and proceedings. Such matters can be time-consuming, divert management’s attention and resources and cause us to incur significant expenses. Furthermore, because litigation is inherently unpredictable, the results of any such actions may have a material adverse effect on our business, operations or financial condition.

 

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We may have exposure to greater than anticipated tax liabilities

We are subject to income and other taxes in a variety of jurisdictions and our tax structure is subject to review by both domestic and foreign taxation authorities. The determination of our worldwide provision for income taxes and of other tax liabilities requires significant judgment. Although we believe our estimates are reasonable, the ultimate outcome with respect to the taxes we owe may differ from the amounts recorded in our financial statements, and this difference may materially affect our financial results in the period or periods for which such determination is made.

 

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

 

Item 2. Properties

Owned Facilities

Our headquarters is located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. This facility consists of four floors totaling approximately 112,000 rentable square feet. The land upon which the building stands is leased from the University of Waterloo (the “University”), for a period of 49 years with an option to renew for an additional term of 49 years. The option to renew is exercisable by us upon providing written notice to the University not earlier than the 40th anniversary and not later than the 45th anniversary of the lease commencement date.

We have obtained a mortgage from a Canadian chartered bank which has been secured by a lien on our headquarters in Waterloo. For more information regarding this mortgage please refer to Note 10 “Long-term Debt and Credit Facilities” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

We also own a building in Toronto, Canada, totaling 83,714 rentable square feet, that is currently being held for sale. For more details of this building see Note 4 “Capital Assets” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Leased Facilities

Offices that we currently occupy under lease include:

 

   

Lincolnshire, IL, USA—totaling 38,115 rentable square feet;

 

   

Beaconsfield, UK—totaling 16,948 rentable square feet;

 

   

Grasbrunn (Munich), Germany—totaling 138,668 rentable square feet;

 

   

Richmond Hill, ON, Canada—totaling 101,458 rentable square feet; and

 

   

Ottawa, ON, Canada—totaling 44,100 rentable square feet.

In addition, we also occupy smaller leased facilities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.

 

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

In the normal course of business, we are subject to various and sundry legal matters. While the results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, we believe that the final outcome of these matters will not have a materially adverse effect on our consolidated results of operations or financial conditions.

 

Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

None.

 

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PART II

 

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our Common Shares have traded on the NASDAQ since January 23, 1996 under the symbol “OTEX” and our Common Shares have traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) since June 26, 1998 under the symbol “OTC”. The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices for our Common Shares, as reported by the TSX, and the NASDAQ, respectively, for the periods indicated below.

On June 29, 2007, the closing price of our Common Shares on the NASDAQ was $21.76 USD per share. On June 29, 2007, the closing price of our Common Shares on the TSX was $23.34 CDN per share.

 

     NASDAQ    TSX
     High    Low    High    Low
     (in U.S. dollars)    (in Canadian dollars)

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2007:

           

Fourth Quarter

   $ 25.00    $ 21.10    $ 27.76    $ 22.44

Third Quarter

     24.34      18.22      28.31      21.50

Second Quarter

     20.70      17.41      24.12      19.73

First Quarter

     17.93      12.86      20.03      14.66

Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2006:

           

Fourth Quarter

   $ 19.16    $ 13.25    $ 21.22    $ 14.80

Third Quarter

     18.36      14.10      20.99      16.44

Second Quarter

     15.92      13.15      19.06      15.53

First Quarter

     15.23      11.51      18.49      13.58

On September 4, 2007, the closing price of our Common Shares on the NASDAQ was $25.77 USD per share.

On September 4, 2007, the closing price of our Common Shares on the TSX was $27.25 CDN per share.

As at August 21, 2007, there were approximately 74 shareholders on record holding our Common Shares of which approximately 42 were U.S. Shareholders on record holding our Common Shares.

Unregistered sales of Equity Securities

None.

Dividend Policy

We have never paid cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain earnings, if any, for use in our business and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

 

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Stock Repurchases

The following table provides details of Common Shares we repurchased during the three months ended June 30, 2007:

PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY FOR THE THREE

MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2007

 

Period

   (a)
Total Number
of Shares
(or Units)
Purchased
   (b)
Average
Price Paid
per Share
(or Unit)
   (c)
Total Number
of Shares
(or Units) Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs
   (d)
Maximum
Number of Shares
(or Units) that May
Yet Be Purchased
Under the Plans or
Programs

04/1/07 to 04/30/07

      $       —  

05/1/07 to 05/31/07

              2,494,053

06/1/07 to 06/30/07

              2,494,053
                     

Total

      $       2,494,053
                     

On May 2, 2007, we issued a press release announcing the filing of a Notice of Intention with the Ontario Securities Commission to make a normal course issuer bid to repurchase up to a maximum of 2,494,053 of our common shares, through the facilities of the NASDAQ Global Select Market, an amount representing up to but not exceeding 5% of our issued and outstanding common shares as of April 30, 2007.

Performance Graph

The following graph compares for the period from June 30, 2002 through June 30, 2007, the yearly percentage change in the cumulative total shareholder return on our Common Shares with the cumulative total return on:

 

   

An index of companies in the internet and software services industry which is maintained by Hemscott, Inc. (Herein referred to as the “Hemscott Index”. Formerly this index was known as the Coredata Group Internet Software and Services Index)

 

   

the NASDAQ Market Index; and

 

   

the S&P/TSX Composite Index

 

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The graph illustrates the cumulative return on a $100 investment in our Common Shares made on June 30, 2002 as compared with the cumulative return on a $100 investment in the Hemscott Index, the NASDAQ Market Index and the S&P/TSX Composite Index (collectively referred to as the “Indices”) made on the same day. Dividends declared on securities comprising the respective indices are assumed to be reinvested. The performance of our Common Shares, as set out in the graph does not necessarily indicate future price performance.

LOGO

The chart below provides information with respect to the value of $100 invested on June 30, 2002, in our Common Shares as well as in the other Indices, assuming dividend reinvestment when applicable:

 

     As of June 30,
     2002    2003    2004    2005    2006    2007

Open Text Corporation

   100.00    144.31    325.34    144.42    147.27    221.93

Hemscott Index

   100.00    157.60    245.76    199.17    203.53    254.38

NASDAQ Market Index

   100.00    111.20    141.42    141.27    150.36    180.25

S&P/TSX Composite

   100.00    99.73    124.14    146.53    175.32    215.17

 

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Canadian Tax Matters

Dividends

Under the 1980 U.S.-Canada Income Tax Convention (or the Convention), Canadian withholding tax of 15% generally applies to the gross amount of dividends (including stock dividends) paid or credited to beneficial owners of our Common Shares:

 

   

Who are resident in the U.S. for the purposes of the Convention; and

 

   

Who do not hold the shares in connection with a business carried on through a permanent establishment or a fixed location in Canada.

The Convention provides an exemption from withholding tax on dividends paid or credited to certain tax-exempt organizations that are resident in the U.S. for purposes of the Convention. Persons who are subject to the U.S. federal income tax on dividends may be entitled, subject to certain limitations, to either a credit or deduction with respect to Canadian income taxes withheld with respect to dividends paid or credited on our common shares.

We have never paid cash dividends on our capital stock, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Sales or Other Dispositions of Shares

Gains on sales or other dispositions of our Common Shares by a non-resident of Canada are generally not subject to Canadian income tax, unless the holder realizes the gains in connection with a business carried on in Canada. A gain realized upon the disposition of our Common Shares by a resident of the U.S. that is otherwise subject to Canadian tax may be exempt from Canadian tax under the Convention. Where our Common Shares are disposed of by way of our acquisition of such Common Shares, other than a purchase in the open market in the manner in which our Common Shares would normally be purchased by any member of the public in the open market, the amount paid by us in excess of the paid-up capital of such Common Shares will be treated as a dividend, and will be subject to non-resident withholding tax.

 

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

The following table summarizes our selected consolidated financial data for the periods indicated. The selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The selected consolidated statement of income and balance sheet data for each of the five years indicated below has been derived from our audited financial statements.

 

     Fiscal Year Ended June 30,
     2007    2006    2005    2004    2003
     (in thousands, except per share data)

Statement of Income Data:

              

Revenue

   $ 595,664    $ 409,562    $ 414,828    $ 291,058    $ 177,725
                                  

Net income

   $ 21,660    $ 4,978    $ 20,359    $ 23,298    $ 27,757
                                  

Net income per share, basic

   $ 0.44    $ 0.10    $ 0.41    $ 0.53    $ 0.71
                                  

Net income per share, diluted

   $ 0.43    $ 0.10    $ 0.39    $ 0.49    $ 0.67
                                  

Weighted average number of Common Shares outstanding, basic

     49,393      48,666      49,919      43,744      39,051
                                  

Weighted average number of Common Shares outstanding, diluted

     50,908      49,950      52,092      47,272      41,393
                                  
     As of June 30,
     2007    2006    2005    2004    2003

Balance Sheet Data:

              

Total assets

   $ 1,326,845    $ 678,035    $ 640,936    $ 668,655    $ 238,687

Long-term liabilities

     513,140      57,108      57,781      57,971      6,608

Cash dividends per Common Share

     —        —        —        —        —  

 

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation

In addition to historical information, this Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is subject to the safe harbors created by those sections. Words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “could,” “would,” “might,” “will” and variations of these words or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, performance or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks as well as uncertainties, including those discussed herein and in the notes to our financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2007, certain sections of which are incorporated herein by reference as set forth in Items 7 and 8 of this report. The actual results that we achieve may differ materially from any forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s opinions only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements. You should carefully review Part 1 Item 1A “Risk Factors” and other documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A number of factors may materially affect our business, financial condition, operating results and prospects. These factors include but are not limited to those set forth in Part 1 Item 1A “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report. Any one of these factors may cause our actual results to differ materially from recent results or from our anticipated future results. You should not rely too

 

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heavily on the forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, because these forward-looking statements are relevant only as of the date they were made.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

We are the world’s largest independent vendor of Enterprise Content Management (“ECM”) solutions. ECM is the set of technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, find and retrieve “word” based business content. Content, or unstructured information, includes text documents, email, reports, images and video, and transaction-based data. We offer a wide range of products for managing enterprise business content, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and internal policies, controlling information flows, and helping solve other content-intensive business challenges. Our initial public offering was on the NASDAQ in 1996 and, subsequently, on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1998. We currently employ approximately 2,700 people worldwide.

Our operations fall into one dominant industry segment being ECM which is further divided into three product types: License, Customer support and Services. However, we manage and evaluate our operations primarily upon the basis of the geographic segments of North America, Europe and “Other”. The “Other” segment is a residual segment consisting of operations in regions other than North America and Europe.

FISCAL 2007 compared to FISCAL 2006

Fiscal 2007 Milestones:

Fiscal 2007 was a successful year for us. In October 2006 we acquired a competitor, Hummingbird Ltd (“Hummingbird”).

Other significant milestones of fiscal 2007 were as follows:

 

   

Total revenue increased by 45% on a year over year basis to $595.7 million.

 

   

License revenue increased to $182.5 million equivalent to a 49% increase over fiscal 2006.

 

   

Increase in operating cash flows of $50.1 million over fiscal 2006, from $60.8 million in fiscal 2006 to $110.9 million in fiscal 2007.

 

   

Increase in the overall cash balance by $42.6 million over fiscal 2006, from $107.4 million in fiscal 2006 to $150.0 million in fiscal 2007.

 

   

Long-term bank borrowing of $390.0 million including a non-scheduled prepayment of $30.0 million.

 

   

Announcement, in May 2007, of a share repurchase program to repurchase up to a maximum of 2.5 million Open Text shares over a one year period.

 

   

Market launch, in November 2006, of “Livelink ECM 10” the newest addition to our ECM suite of products.

 

   

Unveiling, in February 2007, of an “integrated product roadmap” and the details of our “next- generation” ECM offering code-named “DMX” which represents a convergence of Open Text and Hummingbird technologies.

 

   

Release of Livelink ECM eDOCS Version 5.2 which is a product that will allow Hummingbird customers to deploy and leverage the capabilities of “Windows Vista” and “Microsoft Office 2007”.

 

   

A significant operational restructuring initiative commenced in the second quarter of fiscal 2007, of both our operations and legacy Hummingbird operations with a view to achieving long-term operational efficiencies and cost savings from economies of scale.

 

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Acquisitions

We have a history of both organic and acquisitive growth and a robust and dynamic acquisition program is an integral part of our corporate strategy. In fiscal 2007 we made the following two acquisitions:

 

   

In October 2006, we completed the acquisition of Hummingbird, a Toronto based, global provider of ECM solutions in an all cash deal for $412.5 million (net of cash acquired). We see significant synergies in this acquisition and believe that this acquisition will enhance our size and global reach and will further solidify our position as a leading provider of ECM solutions. We believe the union of Open Text and Hummingbird will strengthen our ability to reach a wider, more diversified audience, create a strong strategic fit that adds to our “solutions focus”, and will increase the reach of our global partner program

 

   

In March 2007, we acquired Momentum Systems Inc. (“Momentum”) for $4.7 million in cash (net of cash acquired). Momentum, based in Arlington, Virginia, has served the government sector for over 12 years and has had a successful track record of implementing and supporting our Livelink ECM solutions. We believe this acquisition will further enhance our ability to sell to and service the government sector.

Partners

We have developed strong and mutually beneficial relationships with key technology partners, including major software vendors, systems integrators, and storage vendors, to deliver customer-focused solutions. Key alliances of Open Text include Oracle©, Microsoft©, SAP©, Deloitte©, Accenture © and Hitachi©. We rely on close cooperation with partners for sales and product development, as well as for the optimization of opportunities which arise in our competitive environment.

We continue to make significant progress with our global partner program, with emphasis on developing strategic relations and tight integration with partners. Business generated through areas like archiving, records management and compliance continue to be driven through our partners. Our revenue from partners contributed to approximately 30% of our revenues in fiscal 2007 compared to approximately 17% in fiscal 2006.

In fiscal 2007 we announced a worldwide reselling agreement with SAP for Open Text brand archiving and document access products. Also, we announced two new product offerings with Microsoft the first being an office business application built upon “Microsoft Office 2007” and the second being a product particular to the legal industry that combines our legal industry expertise in “life cycle and proactive compliance management” with the collaboration and document management capabilities of “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007”.

Outlook for Fiscal 2008

The consensus of ECM industry analysts is that the ECM market will grow in the 8% to 12% range and we see our license revenue growing in and around the same range. We see e-mail archiving and records management products as being the main “drivers” of the ECM market and we expect that our traditional customer base will continue to build upon existing ECM applications.

We expect to launch our DMX product in the second quarter of fiscal 2008. Our partnership with SAP will continue to be a significant strategic initiative for us in fiscal 2008, enabling us to access new markets. We anticipate new opportunities for growth in the ECM market, particularly around records management and compliance as well as increased demand for SharePoint and SAP integration. We believe that the market will continue to consolidate and that such consolidation will help us on the competitive front.

We also expect to continue to pay down our long-term debt and expect to make a second prepayment of approximately $30.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2008.

 

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Overall, our focus for fiscal 2008 will be to:

 

   

continue growing license revenue;

 

   

improve profitability; and

 

   

expand on business opportunities created by our partner initiatives.

Results of Operations

As a result of our acquisition of Hummingbird, we have included the financial results of Hummingbird in our consolidated financial statements beginning October 2, 2006, the date we acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Hummingbird. The fluctuations in the operating results in the current periods, compared with the same period in the prior fiscal year, are generally due to the synergies generated by this acquisition.

Immediately upon the acquisition of Hummingbird, we restructured both Hummingbird and pre-acquisition Open Text operations into one combined organization. Sales forces were aligned by either a combined vertical or within a given geography. All back office functions such as accounting and information technology were consolidated to manage the combined operations. Our research and development teams quickly prepared integration code to combine products and features between previous Hummingbird and Open Text products. Most former Hummingbird executive management and many next levels of management personnel were terminated and primarily Open Text management assumed all responsibilities for sales, service, research and development, and general and administrative activities. In view of the shared resources, single line management and combined operations, presentation of the results of operations of Open Text and Hummingbird separately is, we believe, not meaningful and therefore not articulated within this discussion and analysis.

The following table presents an overview of our results of operations:

 

(in thousands)

   2007     2006    

% Change

from Fiscal
2006-2007

 

Total revenue

   $ 595,664     $ 409,562     45.4 %

Cost of revenue

     201,552       142,473     41.5 %

Gross profit

     394,112       267,089     47.6 %

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

     24,586       9,199     167.3 %

Special charges (recoveries)

     12,908       26,182     (50.7 )%

Other operating expenses

     305,692       218,757     39.7 %

Income from operations

     50,926       12,951     293.2 %

Gross margin

     66.2 %     65.2 %  

Operating margin

     8.5 %     3.2 %  

Net income

   $ 21,660     $ 4,978     335.1 %

 

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An analysis of our “Results of Operations” follows:

Revenues

Revenue and by Product Type and Geography:

The following tables set forth our revenues by product, revenue as a percentage of the related product revenue and revenue by major geography for each of the periods indicated:

Revenue by product type

 

(In thousands)

   2007    2006   

% Change

from Fiscal
2006-2007

 

License

   $ 182,507    $ 122,520    49.0 %

Customer support

     287,570      183,878    56.4 %

Services

     125,587      103,164    21.7 %
                    

Total

   $ 595,664    $ 409,562    45.4 %
                    

 

(% of total revenue) (Revenue “mix”)

        2007               2006       

License

   30.6 %   29.9 %

Customer support

   48.3 %   44.9 %

Services

   21.1 %   25.2 %
            

Total

   100.0 %   100.0 %
            

Revenue by Geography

 

(In thousands)

   2007    2006

North America

   $ 279,185    $ 197,852

Europe

     286,981      189,260

Other

     29,498      22,450
             

Total

   $ 595,664    $ 409,562
             

 

% of total revenue

        2007               2006       

North America

   46.9 %   48.3 %

Europe

   48.2 %   46.2 %

Other

   4.9 %   5.5 %
            

Total

   100.0 %   100.0 %
            

License Revenue

License revenue consists of fees earned from the licensing of software products to customers.

License revenue increased by approximately $60.0 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006, primarily as the result of growth from our European operations and the accretive impact of Hummingbird. Of the total growth achieved in fiscal 2007, Europe accounted for 59.7% of the increase on account of higher partner involvement, followed by North America, which added 35.6% and the other segment contributed approximately 4.7% of the overall growth in license revenue. Additionally, partner generated license sales contributed to approximately 28% of license revenue compared to only 12% in fiscal 2006.

 

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Customer Support Revenue

Customer support revenue consists of revenue from our customer support and maintenance agreements. These agreements allow our customers to receive technical support, enhancements and upgrades to new versions of our software products when and if available. Customer support revenue is generated from such support and maintenance agreements relating to current year sales of software products and from the renewal of existing maintenance agreements for software licenses sold in prior periods. As our installed base grows, the renewal rate has a larger influence on customer support revenue than the current software revenue growth. Therefore changes in customer support revenue do not necessarily correlate directly to the changes in license revenue in a given period. Typically the term of these support and maintenance agreements is twelve months, with customer renewal options. We have historically experienced a renewal rate over 90% but continue to encounter pricing pressure from our customers during contract negotiation and renewal. New license sales create additional customer support agreements which contribute substantially to the increase in our customer support revenue.

Customer support revenue increased by approximately $103.7 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006, primarily as the result of growth from our North American operations and the accretive impact of Hummingbird. Of the total growth achieved in fiscal 2007, North America accounted for 50.0% of the increase, followed by Europe, which contributed 46.3% and the other segment provided for the remaining growth in customer support revenue.

Service Revenue

Service revenue consists of revenues from consulting contracts and contracts to provide training and integration services.

Service revenue increased by approximately $22.4 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006, primarily as the result of growth from our European operations and the accretive impact of Hummingbird. Of the total growth achieved in fiscal 2007, Europe accounted for 63.7% of the increase, followed by North America, which added 34.7% and the remaining other segment contributed to the rest of the overall growth in service revenue.

Revenue “Mix”

Our overall revenue “mix”, expressed as a percentage of total revenues, is consistent with our expectations. For fiscal 2008 we expect to see the following revenue “mix”

 

(% of total revenue)

      

License

   30% to 35 %

Customer support

   45% to 50 %

Services

   20% to 25 %

Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin by Product Type

The following tables set forth the changes in cost of revenues and gross margin by product type for the periods indicated:

 

(In thousands)

   2007    2006   

% Change

from Fiscal

2006-2007

 

License

   $ 13,652    $ 11,196    21.9 %

Customer Support

     46,177      28,908    59.7 %

Service

     105,517      83,469    26.4 %

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets

     36,206      18,900    91.6 %
                    

Total

   $ 201,552    $ 142,473    41.5 %
                    

 

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Gross Margin

        2007               2006       

License

   92.5 %   90.9 %

Customer Support

   83.9 %   84.3 %

Service

   16.0 %   19.1 %

Cost of license revenue

Cost of license revenue consists primarily of royalties payable to third parties and product media duplication, instruction manuals and packaging expenses.

Cost of license revenue increased by $2.5 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 as a direct correlation to the total increase in license revenues for fiscal 2007 due to, primarily, higher product distribution costs of $2.2 million. Overall gross margin on cost of license revenue has remained stable over fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2006 as our overall cost structure has remained relatively unchanged.

Cost of customer support revenues

Cost of customer support revenues is comprised primarily of technical support personnel and related costs.

Cost of customer support revenues increased by $17.3 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 primarily due to an increase in employee headcount from 255 employees at the end of fiscal 2006 to 463 employees at the end of fiscal 2007 and direct costs associated with increased customer service revenue. Overall gross margin on cost of customer support revenue has remained stable over fiscal 2007 and fiscal 2006 as our overall cost structure has remained relatively unchanged.

Cost of service revenues

Cost of service revenues consists primarily of the costs of providing integration, customization and training with respect to our various software products. The most significant component of these costs is personnel related expenses. The other components include travel costs and third party subcontracting.

Cost of service revenues increased by $22.0 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 primarily due to an increase in employee headcount from 482 employees at the end of fiscal 2006 to 556 employees at the end of fiscal 2007 and direct costs associated with increased service revenue. Gross margins decreased in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 as a result of increased combined entity costs.

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets increased by $17.3 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 due to the nine months’ amortization of technology assets acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition. Technology assets in the amount of $159.2 million were acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition and these are being amortized over a period of 7 years.

 

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Operating Expenses

The following table sets forth total operating expenses by function and as a percentage of total revenue for the periods indicated:

 

(In thousands)

   2007    2006   

% Change

From Fiscal
2006-2007

 

Research and development

   $ 79,063    $ 58,469    35.2 %

Sales and marketing

     150,643      104,225    44.5 %

General and administrative

     62,140      44,960    38.2 %

Depreciation

     13,846      11,103    24.7 %

Amortization of acquired customer intangible assets

     24,586      9,199    167.3 %

Special charges (recoveries)

     12,908      26,182    (50.7 )%
                    

Total

   $ 343,186    $ 254,138    35.0 %
                    

 

(in % of total revenue)

       2007             2006      

Research and development

   13.3 %   14.3 %

Sales and marketing

   25.3 %   25.4 %

General and administrative

   10.4 %   11.0 %

Depreciation

   2.3 %   2.7 %

Amortization of acquired customer intangible assets

   4.1 %   2.2 %

Special charges (recoveries)

   2.2 %   6.4 %

Research and development expenses

Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel expenses, contracted research and development expenses, and facility costs.

Research and development expenses increased by $20.6 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 predominantly due to an increase in headcount of 253 employees. The additional headcount resulted in an increase of direct labour expenses of approximately $11.0 million and an increase in labour related benefits and expenses of approximately $4.3 million. $3.4 million of integration costs and a remaining increase of $1.9 million is the result of miscellaneous increases.

In fiscal 2008 we expect research and development expenses to be in the range of 14% to 16% of total revenue.

Sales and marketing expenses

Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel expenses and costs associated with advertising and trade shows.

Sales and marketing expenses increased by $46.4 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 predominantly due to an increase in headcount of 181 employees. The additional headcount resulted in an increase in direct labour expenses of approximately $12.9 million and an increase in labour related benefits and expenses of approximately $6.2 million. In addition the other major items that contributed to the increase are higher sales commissions of $5.2 million arising on account of a larger combined sales force and increased revenues, increased travel expenses of $2.9 million and an accretion in other sales related direct costs making up the difference.

In fiscal 2008 we expect sales and marketing costs to be in the range of 24% to 26% of total revenue.

 

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General and administrative expenses

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries of administrative personnel, related overhead, facility expenses, audit fees, consulting expenses and separate public company costs.

General and administrative expenses increased by $17.2 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 mainly as a result of an increase in headcount of 94 employees. The additional headcount resulted in an increase in direct labour expenses of approximately $6.3 million and an increase in labour related benefits and expenses of approximately $2.2 million. The remaining increase in general administrative expenses related to miscellaneous operating activities associated with the expanded scale of the business.

In fiscal 2008 we expect general and administrative expenses to be in the range of 9% to 10% of total revenue.

Depreciation expenses

Depreciation expenses increased in fiscal 2007 over fiscal 2006 due to additions in capital assets relating to the Hummingbird acquisition and miscellaneous “normal course” additions to capital assets.

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets increased by $15.4 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 due to the nine months’ amortization of customer assets acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition. Customer assets in the amount of $139.8 million were acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition and these are being amortized over a period of 7 years.

Special charges (recoveries)

The following table sets forth the details of “Special charges”:

 

(In thousands)

   2007     2006  

Fiscal 2007 Restructuring Plan

   $ 6,422     $ —    

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan

     (564 )     21,623  

Fiscal 2004 Restructuring Plan

     202       (306 )

Accretion of acquisition-related facility accrual

     6,151       —    

Impairment of acquired technology intangible assets

     697       1,046  

Impairment of acquired capital assets

     —         3,819  
                

Total

   $ 12,908     $ 26,182  
                

For more details on special charges, see Note 17 “Special Charges (Recoveries)” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

A discussion of the significant items that impacted special charges in fiscal 2007 follows:

Fiscal 2007 Restructuring Plan

In December 2006, in the immediate aftermath of the Hummingbird acquisition, we commenced restructuring activities to streamline the operations of the legacy Open Text activities. This involved primarily work force reductions and consolidation of excess facilities. This is separate, in accounting terms, from the initiative to restructure legacy Hummingbird activities (discussed in the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section). In fiscal 2007 we incurred a total cash outlay of $5.2 million relating to this plan and expect the remaining accrual to be substantially expended in the first half of fiscal 2008. We do not expect to record any significant accretions to the fiscal 2007 plan in fiscal 2008.

 

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Accretion of acquisition-related facility accrual

In June 2007, based upon our review of our estimates of our future sub-lease income, which are embedded in our estimate of accruals for excess facility obligations, we reduced our original estimate for future sub-lease income relating to an excess facility we acquired as part of the IXOS acquisition. The subject facility is a relatively large facility located outside Munich, Germany, (in a town called Grassbrunn), measuring approximately 18,000 square metres. The relatively large size severely impacted our ability to further sub-lease the facility and in combination with a real estate vacancy rate in Grassbrunn of 25% (compared to 7% in the Greater Munich Area) caused us to review the original estimate of the sub-lease income critically.

In accordance with the accounting rules relating to accounting for acquisitions, the original acquisition-related accrual for this facility was reduced by an estimate for future sub-lease income. These rules also require that any accretions to the original estimate, occurring one year after the date of the acquisition, be charged to operating expenses in the period in which such accretions are determined. As the IXOS acquisition occurred in March 2004, we have, accordingly, included an amount of $6.2 million within Special charges on account of the revision of our original estimate of sub-lease income.

In addition to the above mentioned factors the additional “trigger” events that caused us to increase the estimate of accrual and reduce the estimate of sub—lease income were as follows:

 

   

The time remaining to lease the facility:

 

   

The lease for this facility expires on March 31, 2011. The necessary timeframe to complete a sublet transaction, regardless of its size, can be anywhere between twelve to thirty six months (including contract negotiation, construction of leasehold improvements and moving before any sub-let revenue is realized) and consequently the relatively short timeframe remaining between today and March 2011 is adversely affecting our ability to attract sub-tenants.

 

   

During fiscal 2007, we changed our “marketing strategy”, in this regard, to find tenants willing to take any size of space, not just tenants willing to take full floors or the entire facility.

 

   

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 we implemented a “potential” additional change to our sub-tenant marketing strategy in that we would be willing to consider not just parceling out the property to smaller sub-tenants (as indicated above) but also, the possibility of reducing the sub-rental rates further.

Based upon the above factors, and an analysis of the relative probability of various potential sub-lease scenarios that could occur, our best estimate of the potential impact of the reduction in the original estimate of sub-lease income was determined to be $6.2 million. Since we are now outside the one-year allocation period within which one may adjust or amend acquisition-related accruals, the $6.2 million was charged to the operating expenses of fiscal 2007. We will review this estimate on a quarterly basis and either accrete or reduce the accrual as necessary during fiscal 2008 and up to the end of the lease in March 2011.

Impairment of intangible assets

During the year ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, impairment charges of $697,000 and $1.0 million, respectively, were recorded relating to a write-down of certain intellectual property in North America. The intellectual property represents the fair value of acquired technology from the Corechange acquisition which closed in the 2003 fiscal year. The triggering event that gave rise to the impairments was a shift in the marketing and development strategy associated with the intellectual property and our assessment of the acquired technology relative to its product lifecycle. The impairments were measured as the excess of the carrying amount over the discounted projected future net cash flows.

 

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Net Interest expense

Net interest expense increased by $21.8 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006. This increase was predominantly due to the interest expense incurred on the new long-term debt acquired during fiscal 2007 to partially finance the Hummingbird acquisition.

In fiscal 2008 we expect interest expense to be approximately to be in the range of $25 million to $28 million.

Income taxes

We recorded a tax provision of $10.3 million in fiscal 2007 compared to $4.1 million during fiscal 2006. This equates to an effective tax rate of 31.9% in fiscal 2007 versus an effective tax rate of 42.4% in fiscal 2006. The decrease in our effective tax rate in fiscal 2007 versus the preceding fiscal year is in part due to higher taxable income in jurisdictions with a tax rate lower than the Canadian statutory rate and in part due to the use of deferred tax assets which had a valuation allowance recorded against it in the prior year.

Our deferred tax assets totaling $72.3 million are based upon available income tax losses and future income tax deductions. Our ability to use these income tax losses and future income tax deductions is dependent upon us generating income in the tax jurisdictions in which such losses or deductions arose. The recognized deferred tax liability of $121.6 million is primarily made up of four components. The first component relates to the net addition of the deferred tax liability associated with Hummingbird’s identifiable intangible assets of $101.6 million. The second component relates to $12.9 million arising from other acquired identifiable intangible assets. The third component of $1.6 million relates primarily to deferred credits arising from non capital losses and undeducted scientific research and development experimental expenditures acquired at a discount on asset acquisitions, which will be included in income as they are utilized. The fourth component of $1.9 million relates to deferred tax liability arising from investment tax credits. We record a valuation allowance against deferred income tax assets when we believe it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized. Based on the reversal of deferred income tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, the character of the income tax asset and tax planning strategies, we have determined that a valuation allowance of $168.1 million is required in respect of our deferred income tax assets as at June 30, 2007. (A valuation allowance of $127.5 million was required for the deferred income tax assets as at June 30, 2006). This valuation allowance is primarily attributable to valuation allowances set up based on losses incurred in the current and prior years. In order to fully utilize the recognized deferred income tax assets of $72.3 million, we will need to generate aggregate future taxable income in applicable jurisdictions of approximately $223.9 million. Based on our current projection of taxable income for the periods in the jurisdictions in which the deferred income tax assets are deductible, it is more likely than not that we will realize the benefit of the recognized deferred income tax assets as of June 30, 2007.

Quarterly Overview

The following table summarizes selected unaudited quarterly financial data for the past eight fiscal quarters:

 

     Fiscal 2007
     Fourth
Quarter
   Third
Quarter
   Second
Quarter
   First
Quarter
     (in thousands, except per share data)

Total revenues

   $ 175,196    $ 156,052    $ 163,261    $ 101,155

Gross profit

     117,789      101,631      107,776      66,916

Net income

   $ 8,229    $ 3,853    $ 2,277    $ 7,301

Earnings per share:

           

Basic

   $ 0.16    $ 0.08    $ 0.05    $ 0.15

Diluted

   $ 0.16    $ 0.08    $ 0.04    $ 0.15

 

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     Fiscal 2006  
     Fourth
Quarter
   Third
Quarter
   Second
Quarter
   First
Quarter
 
     (in thousands, except per share data)  

Total revenues

   $ 105,235    $ 100,926    $ 110,771    $ 92,630  

Gross profit

     68,317      65,353      74,490      58,929  

Net income (loss)

   $ 7,803    $ 7,322    $ 2,721    $ (12,868 )

Earnings (loss) per share:

           

Basic

   $ 0.16    $ 0.15    $ 0.06    $ (0.27 )

Diluted

   $ 0.16    $ 0.15    $ 0.05    $ (0.27 )

Quarterly revenues and expenses are impacted by a number of external factors including the timing of large transactions, timing of budget approvals of our customers, acquisitions, seasonality of economic activity and to some degree the timing of capital spend by our customers. The strong revenue growth in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 was due to the impact of two sales transaction exceeding $1.0 million, one transaction exceeding $2.0 million and the overall favorable impact of the integration of Hummingbird.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The following table summarizes the changes in our cash and cash equivalents and cash flows over the periods indicated:

 

(in thousands)

  

June 30,

2007

   

June 30,

2006

    Increase/(Decrease)
in Cash
 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 149,979     $ 107,354     $ 42,625  

Net cash provided by (used in):

      

Operating activities

     110,864       60,798       50,066  

Investing activities

     (436,270 )     (54,727 )     (381,543 )

Financing activities

     362,339       18,202       344,137  

Net cash provided by operating activities

Net cash provided by operating activities increased by approximately $50.1 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 due to a higher net income of $16.7 million, the favorable impact of non cash adjustments of approximately $16.9 million and a net increase in operating assets and liabilities of approximately $16.5 million.

Net cash used in investing activities

Net cash used in investing activities increased by approximately $381.5 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006. This increase was primarily due to payments made for the Hummingbird acquisition, in fiscal 2007, in the amount of $365.3 million, purchase of Momentum for $4.1 million, payments for acquisition-related accruals of $32.3 million, offset by reduced spending on capital assets as part of our planned effort to reduce capital expenditures, of $14.0 million and other miscellaneous reductions in investing activities.

In accordance with the accounting rules for setting up acquisition-related accruals, we set up accruals in the amount of $33.5 million relating to an exit plan for workforce reductions of legacy Hummingbird employees and abandonment of legacy Hummingbird facilities. During fiscal 2007 we made cash payments of approximately $23.8 million relating to these accruals. We expect to make the balance of the payments—except those relating the excess facilities—before the end of the first half of fiscal 2008.

 

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Net cash provided by financing activities

Net cash provided by financing increased by approximately $344.1 million in fiscal 2007 compared to fiscal 2006 primarily due to a net increase in long-term debt of $344.0 million, and proceeds from the issuance of shares under our stock option and employee share purchase plans of $7.2 million. The increase was offset by $7.4 million of debt issuance costs.

The increase in long-term debt is on account of a seven year debt facility obtained from a Canadian chartered bank in the amount of $390.0 million against which we incurred $7.4 million of debt issuance costs (discussed in more detail later in this discussion and analysis).

Long-term Debt and Credit Facilities

On October 2, 2006, we entered into a $465.0 million credit agreement (the “credit agreement”) with a Canadian chartered bank (the “bank”) consisting of a $390.0 million term loan facility (the “term loan”) and a $75.0 million committed revolving long-term credit facility (the “revolver”). The term loan was used to partially finance the Hummingbird acquisition and the revolver will be used for general business purposes. The credit agreement is guaranteed by us and certain of our subsidiaries.

Term loan

The term loan has a seven year term and expires on October 2, 2013 and bears interest at a floating rate of LIBOR plus 2.50%. The term loan principal repayments are equal to 0.25% of the original principal amount, due each quarter with the remainder due at the end of the term, less ratable reductions for any prepayments made. In May 2007, we repaid $30.0 million of the principal, which had the effect of reducing the quarterly principal payment to approximately $900,000.

In Fiscal 2008 we expect to make an additional prepayment in the amount of $30.0 million on this term loan. We are in compliance with all loan covenants relating to this facility as of June 30, 2007.

To limit our exposure to the floating rate portion of the interest rate on the term loan, we entered into a three year interest-rate collar that had the economic effect of circumscribing the floating portion of our interest rate obligations associated with $195.0 million of the term loan within an upper limit of 5.34% and a lower limit of 4.79%.

Revolver

The revolver has a five year term and expires on October 2, 2011. Borrowings under this facility bear interest at rates specified in the credit agreement. The revolver replaced a CAD $40.0 million line of credit (the “old line of credit”) that we previously had with the bank. We had no balances outstanding under the old line of credit at the date of termination. The revolver is subject to a “stand-by” fee ranging between 0.30% and 0.50% per annum. There were no borrowings outstanding under the revolver as of June 30, 2007 and we did not borrow any amounts under this facility in fiscal 2007.

Outlook for Fiscal 2008

We will use any excess cash remaining after meeting operational requirements for one or more of the following purposes:

 

   

Repayment of long-term debt

 

   

Re-purchase of our shares

 

   

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We currently own a building in Toronto, Canada (acquired as part of the acquisition of Hummingbird), which we have classified as an asset “held for sale”. Although we cannot determine the eventual selling price or the timing of the sale, we are actively marketing the property and expect to sell the building during fiscal 2008. As of June 30, 2007 the fair value of the building was $5.6 million.

We anticipate that our cash and cash equivalents (including without limitation the net cash provided by operating activities, the net cash used in investing activities and the net cash provided by financing activities), available credit facilities and committed loan facilities will be sufficient to fund our anticipated cash requirements for working capital, contractual commitments and capital expenditures for at least the next twelve months. We do not expect to pay any dividends in fiscal 2008.

Commitments and Contractual Obligations

We have entered into the following contractual obligations with minimum annual payments for the indicated fiscal periods as follows:

 

     Payments due by Fiscal year ended June 30,
     Total    2008    2009 to 2010    2011 to 2012    2013 and beyond

Long-term debt obligations

   $ 544,250    $ 32,862    $ 64,876    $ 74,059    $ 372,453

Operating lease obligations *

     94,929      24,920      43,019      16,092      10,898

Purchase obligations

     5,529      2,660      2,642      227      —  
                                  
   $ 644,708    $ 60,442    $ 110,537    $ 90,378    $ 383,351
                                  

* Net of $6.2 million of non-cancelable sub-lease income we are to receive from properties which we have sub-leased to other parties.

Rental expense of $13.5 million, $11.3 million and $15.5 million was recorded during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

The long-term debt obligations are comprised of interest and principal payments on our $390.0 million term loan agreement and a five year mortgage on our headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. See Note 10 “Long-term Debt and Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities” in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8, in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Litigation

From time to time, we are subject to legal proceedings and claims, either asserted or unasserted, that arise in the ordinary course of business. While the outcome of these proceedings and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, our management does not believe that the outcome of any of these legal matters will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not enter into off-balance sheet financing as a matter of practice except for the use of operating leases for office space, computer equipment, and vehicles. None of the operating leases described in the previous sentence has, or potentially may have, a material current or future effect on our financial condition (including any possible changes in our financial condition), revenue, expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources. In accordance with U.S. GAAP, neither the lease liability nor the underlying asset is carried on the balance sheet, as the terms of the leases do not meet the criteria for capitalization.

 

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based on our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP necessarily requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, we re-evaluate our estimates, including those related to revenues, bad debts, investments, intangible assets, income taxes, contingencies and litigation. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed at the time to be reasonable under the circumstances. Under different assumptions or conditions, the actual results will differ, potentially materially, from those previously estimated. Many of the conditions impacting these assumptions and estimates are outside of our control.

We believe that the accounting policies described below are critical to understanding our business, results of operations and financial condition because they involve significant judgment and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements. An accounting policy is deemed to be critical if it requires a judgment or accounting estimate to be made based on assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain, and if different estimates that could have been used, or if changes in the accounting estimates that are reasonably likely to occur periodically, could materially impact our consolidated financial statements. Management has discussed the development, selection and application of our critical accounting policies with the audit committee of our Board of Directors, and our audit committee has reviewed our disclosure relating to our critical accounting policies in the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Other significant accounting policies, primarily those with lower levels of uncertainty than those discussed below, are also critical to understanding our consolidated financial statements. The Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements contain additional information related to our accounting policies and should be read in conjunction with this discussion.

The following critical accounting policies affect our more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements:

Business combinations

We account for acquisitions of companies in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 141, “Business Combinations” (“SFAS 141”). We allocate the purchase price to tangible assets, intangible assets and liabilities based on estimated fair values at the date of acquisition with the excess of purchase price, if any, being allocated to goodwill.

Impairment of long-lived assets

We account for the impairment and disposition of long-lived assets in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets” (“SFAS 144”). We test long-lived assets or asset groups, such as capital assets and definite lived intangible assets, for recoverability when events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying amount may not be recoverable. Circumstances which could trigger a review include, but are not limited to: significant adverse changes in the business climate or legal factors; current period cash flow or operating losses combined with a history of losses or a forecast of continuing losses associated with the use of the asset; and a current expectation that the asset will more likely than not be sold or disposed of before the end of its estimated useful life.

Recoverability is assessed based on comparing the carrying amount of the asset to the aggregate pre-tax undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposal of the asset or asset group. Impairment is recognized when the carrying amount is not recoverable and exceeds the fair value of the asset or

 

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asset group. The impairment loss, if any, is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds discounted projected future cash flows. We recorded an impairment charge of $697,000 during the year ended June 30, 2007 ($1.0 million, June 30, 2006). (See Note 17 “Special Charges (Recoveries)” under Item 8 to this Annual Report on this form 10-K).

Acquired intangibles

This category consists of acquired technology and contractual relationships associated with various acquisitions, as well as trademarks and patents.

Acquired technology is initially recorded at fair value based on the present value of the estimated net future income-producing capabilities of software products acquired on acquisitions. Acquired technology is amortized over its estimated useful life on a straight-line basis.

Contractual relationships represent relationships that we have with certain customers on contractual or legal rights and are considered separable. We acquired these contractual relationships through business combinations and they were initially recorded at their fair value based on the present value of expected future cash flows. Contractual relationships are amortized on a straight-line basis over their useful lives.

We continually evaluate the remaining useful life of our intangible assets being amortized to determine whether events and circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining period of amortization.

Goodwill

FASB SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets” (“SFAS 142”), requires that goodwill and other intangible assets with indefinite useful lives be tested for impairment annually or earlier if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of these assets may not be recoverable.

In accordance with SFAS 142, we do not amortize goodwill. We performed, in accordance with SFAS 142, our annual impairment analysis of goodwill as of April 1, 2006. The analysis in all years indicated that there was no impairment of goodwill in any of the reporting units. If estimates change, a materially different impairment conclusion could result.

Allowance for doubtful accounts

We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of customers to make payments. We evaluate the credit worthiness of our customers prior to order fulfillment and based on these evaluations, adjust credit limits to the respective customers. In addition to these evaluations, we conduct on-going credit evaluations of our customers’ payment history and current credit worthiness. The allowance is maintained for 100% of all accounts deemed to be uncollectible and, for those receivables not specifically identified as uncollectible, an allowance is maintained for a specific percentage of those receivables based upon the aging of accounts, our historical collection experience and current economic expectations. To date, the actual losses have been within management expectations. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of the accounts receivable balance as of June 30, 2007 and 2006.

Revenue recognition

a) License revenues

We recognize revenue in accordance with Statement of Position (“SOP”) 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition”, issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) in October 1997 as amended by SOP 98-9 issued in December 1998.

 

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We record product revenue from software licenses and products when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the software product has been shipped, there are no significant uncertainties surrounding product acceptance, the fees are fixed and determinable and collection is considered probable. We use the residual method to recognize revenue on delivered elements when a license agreement includes one or more elements to be delivered at a future date if evidence of the fair value of all undelivered elements exists. If an undelivered element for the arrangement exists under the license arrangement, revenue related to the undelivered element is deferred based on vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of the fair value of the undelivered element.

Our multiple-element sales arrangements include arrangements where software licenses and the associated post contract customer support (“PCS”) are sold together. We have established VSOE of the fair value of the undelivered PCS element based on the contracted price for renewal PCS included in the original multiple element sales arrangement, as substantiated by contractual terms and our significant PCS renewal experience, from our existing worldwide base. Our multiple element sales arrangements generally include rights for the customer to renew PCS after the bundled term ends. These rights are irrevocable to the customer’s benefit, are for specified prices and the customer is not subject to any economic or other penalty for failure to renew. Further, the renewal PCS options are for services comparable to the bundled PCS and cover similar terms.

It is our experience that customers generally exercise their renewal PCS option. In the renewal transaction, PCS is sold on a stand-alone basis to the licensees one year or more after the original multiple element sales arrangement. The renewal PCS price is consistent with the renewal price in the original multiple element sales arrangement although an adjustment to reflect consumer price changes is not uncommon.

If VSOE of fair value does not exist for all undelivered elements, all revenue is deferred until sufficient evidence exists or all elements have been delivered.

We assess whether payment terms are customary or extended in accordance with normal practice relative to the market in which the sale is occurring. Our sales arrangements generally include standard payment terms. These terms effectively relate to all customers, products, and arrangements regardless of customer type, product mix or arrangement size. The only time exceptions are made to these standard terms is on certain sales in parts of the world where local practice differs. In these jurisdictions, our customary payment terms are in line with local practice.

b) Service revenues

Service revenues consist of revenues from consulting, implementation, training and integration services. These services are set forth separately in the contractual arrangements such that the total price of the customer arrangement is expected to vary as a result of the inclusion or exclusion of these services. For those contracts where the services are not essential to the functionality of any other element of the transaction, we determine VSOE of fair value for these services based upon normal pricing and discounting practices for these services when sold separately. These consulting and implementation services contracts are primarily time and materials based contracts that are, on average, less than six months in length. Revenue from these services is recognized at the time such services are rendered as the time is incurred by us.

We also enter into contracts that are primarily fixed fee arrangements wherein the services are not essential to the functionality of a software element. In such cases the proportional performance method is applied to recognize revenue.

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c) Customer support revenues

Customer support revenues consist of revenue derived from contracts to provide PCS to license holders. These revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the contract. Advance billings of PCS are not recorded to the extent that the term of the PCS has not commenced or payment has not been received.

Research and development costs

Research and development costs internally incurred in creating computer software to be sold, licensed or otherwise marketed, are expensed as incurred unless they meet the criteria for deferral and amortization, described in FASB SFAS No. 86 “Accounting for the Costs of Corporate Software to be Sold, Released, or Otherwise Marketed” (“SFAS 86”). In accordance with SFAS 86, costs related to research, design and development of products are charged to expenses as incurred and capitalized between the dates that the product is considered to be technologically feasible and is considered to be ready for general release to customers.

In our historical experience, the dates relating to the achievement of technological feasibility and general release of the product have substantially coincided. In addition, no significant costs are incurred subsequent to the establishment of technological feasibility. As a result we do not capitalize any research and development costs relating to internally developed software to be sold, licensed or otherwise marketed.

Income taxes

We account for income taxes in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” (“SFAS 109”). Deferred tax assets and liabilities arise from temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their reported amounts in the consolidated financial statements that will result in taxable or deductible amounts in future years. These temporary differences are measured using enacted tax rates. A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce deferred tax assets to the extent that management considers it is more likely than not that a deferred tax asset will not be realized. In determining the valuation allowance, management considers factors such as the reversal of deferred income tax liabilities, projected taxable income, and the character of income tax assets and tax planning strategies. A change to these factors could impact the estimated valuation allowance and income tax expense.

In addition, we are subject to examinations by taxation authorities of the jurisdictions in which we operate in the normal course of operations. We regularly assess the status of these examinations and the potential for adverse outcomes to determine the adequacy of the provision for income and other taxes.

Restructuring charges

We record restructuring charges relating to contractual lease obligations and other exit costs in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 146, “Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities” (“SFAS 146”). SFAS 146 requires recognition of costs associated with an exit or disposal activity when the liability is incurred and can be measured at fair value.

We record restructuring charges relating to employee termination costs in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 112, “Accounting for Post Employment Benefits” (“SFAS 112”). SFAS 112 applies to post-employment benefits provided to employees under on-going benefit arrangements. In accordance with SFAS 112, we record such charges when the termination benefits are capable of being determined or estimated in advance, from either the provisions of our policy or from past practices, the benefits are attributable to services already rendered and the obligation relates to rights that vest or accumulate.

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income and the net recoverable amount of equipment to be disposed of. At the end of each reporting period, we evaluate the appropriateness of the remaining accrued balances.

Litigation

We are a party, from time to time, in legal proceedings. In these cases, management assesses the likelihood that a loss will result, as well as the amount of such loss and the financial statements provide for our best estimate of such losses in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 5, “Accounting for Contingencies” To the extent that any of these legal proceedings are resolved and the result is that we are required to pay an amount in excess of what has been provided for in the financial statements, we would be required to record, against earnings, such excess at that time. If the resolution resulted in a gain to us, or a loss less than that provided for, such gain is recognized when received or receivable.

Share-based compensation

On July 1, 2005, we adopted the fair value-based method for measurement and cost recognition of employee share-based compensation under the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123 (Revised 2004) “Share-Based Payments” (“SFAS 123R”), using the modified prospective transitional method. Previously, we had been accounting for employee share-based compensation using the intrinsic value method, which generally did not result in any compensation cost being recorded for stock options since the exercise price was equal to the market price of the underlying shares on the date of grant.

Our stock options are now accounted for under SFAS 123R. The fair value of each option granted is estimated on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.

For the year ended June 30, 2007, the weighted-average fair value of options granted, as of the grant date, was $7.22, using the following weighted average assumptions: expected volatility of 46%; risk-free interest rate of 4.7%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 4.8 years. A forfeiture rate of 5%, based on historical employee turnover rates, was used to determine the net amount of compensation expense recognized.

For the year ended June 30, 2006, the weighted-average fair value of options granted, as of the grant date, was $7.68, using the following weighted average assumptions: expected volatility of 52%; risk-free interest rate of 4.6%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 5.2 years. A forfeiture rate of 5%, based on historical employee turnover rates, was used to determine the net amount of compensation expense recognized.

For the year ended June 30, 2005, the weighted-average fair value of options granted, as of the grant date, during the periods was $8.35, using the following weighted-average assumptions: expected volatility of 61%; risk-free interest rate of 3.2%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 4.3 years.

Share-based compensation cost included in the Consolidated Statement of Income for the year ended June 30, 2007 was $5.4 million. Deferred tax assets of $875,000 were recorded, as of June 30, 2007 in relation to the tax effect of certain stock options that are eligible for a tax deduction when exercised. We have not capitalized any share-based compensation costs as part of the cost of an asset.

Share-based compensation cost included in the Consolidated Statement of Income for the year ended June 30, 2006 was approximately $5.2 million. Deferred tax assets of $622,000 were recorded, as of June 30, 2006 in relation to the tax effect of certain stock options that are eligible for a tax deduction when exercised. We have not capitalized any share-based compensation costs as part of the cost of an asset.

We made no modifications to the terms of our outstanding share options in anticipation of the adoption of SFAS 123R. Also, we made no changes in either the quantity or type of instruments used in our share option plans or the terms of our share option plans.

 

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In order to calculate the fair value of share-based payment awards, we use the Black-Scholes model. This model requires the input of subjective assumptions, including stock price volatility, the expected exercise behavior and forfeiture rate. Expected volatilities are based on the historical volatility of our stock. The expected life of options granted is based on historical experience and represents the period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding. The risk-free rate for periods within the contractual life of the option are determined by the US Treasury yields and the Government of Canada benchmark bond yields for U.S. dollar and Canadian dollar options, respectively, in effect at the time of the grant.

The assumptions used in calculating the fair value of share-based payment awards represent our best estimates, but these estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of our judgment. As a result, if factors change or we use different assumptions, our share-based compensation expense could be materially different in the future. We are also required to estimate the forfeiture rate and only recognize the expense for those shares expected to vest. If our actual forfeiture rate is materially different from our estimate, our share-based compensation expense could be significantly different from what we have recorded in the period such determination is made.

New Accounting Standards

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities—Including an Amendment of FASB Statement No. 115” (“SFAS 159”). SFAS 159 permits an entity to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value. Most of the provisions in SFAS 159 are elective; however, the amendment to FASB Statement No. 115, “Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities”, applies to all entities with available-for-sale and trading securities. SFAS 159 is effective for us beginning July 1, 2008. We are currently assessing the potential impact that the adoption of SFAS 159 will have on our financial statements.

In September 2006, the United States Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 108, “Considering the Effects of Prior year Misstatements when Quantifying Current year Misstatements”, (“SAB 108”). SAB 108 requires analysis of misstatements using both an income statement (rollover) approach and a balance sheet (iron curtain) approach in assessing materiality and provides for a one-time cumulative effect transition adjustment. SAB 108 is effective for our fiscal year 2007 annual financial statements. The adoption of SAB 108 did not have any impact on our financial statements.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements”, and (“SFAS 157”), which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 does not require any new fair value measurements, but provides guidance on how to measure fair value by providing a fair value hierarchy used to classify the source of the information. This statement is effective for us beginning July 1, 2008. We are currently assessing the potential impact that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on our financial statements.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans—an Amendment of FASB Statements 87,88,106, and 132(R)” (“SFAS 158”). SFAS 158 requires an employer to recognize the over funded or under funded status of defined benefit plan and post-retirement plan (other than a multi employer plan) as an asset or a liability in its statement of financial position and to recognize changes in that funded status in the year in which the changes occur through comprehensive income. Based upon the funded status of Open Text’s pension plans the adoption of SFAS 158 has had the effect of decreasing pension liabilities by $260,000 and increasing shareholders’ equity by the same amount.

In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48 on Accounting for Uncertain Tax Positions—an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”). Under FIN 48, an entity should presume that a taxing authority will examine a tax position when evaluating its position for recognition

 

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and measurement; therefore, assessment of the probability of the risk of examination is not appropriate. In applying the provisions of FIN 48, there will be distinct recognition and measurement evaluations. FIN 48 will be effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal 2008. We are currently assessing the potential impact that the adoption of FIN 48 will have on our financial statements.

FISCAL 2006 compared to FISCAL 2005

Results of Operations

The following table presents an overview of our selected financial data.

 

(in thousands)

   2006     2005    

% Change

From Fiscal
2005-2006

 

Total revenue

   $ 409,562     $ 414,828       (1.3) %

Cost of revenue

     142,473       142,168       0.2 %

Gross profit

     267,089       272,660       (2.0) %

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

     9,199       8,234       11.7 %

Special charges (recoveries)

     26,182       (1,724)       N/A  

Other operating expenses

     218,757       236,842       (7.6) %

Income from operations

     12,951       29,308       (55.8) %

Gross margin

     65.2 %     65.7 %  

Operating margin

     3.2 %     7.1 %  

Net income

   $ 4,978     $ 20,359       (75.5) %

Our focus in fiscal 2006 was on increasing near-term profitability by streamlining our operations. To achieve this we announced a significant restructuring of our operations in July 2005 which resulted in a charge of $26.2 million. This restructuring primarily included work force reductions and abandonment of excess real estate facilities. Absent the impact of this charge our operational income was $39.1 million in fiscal 2006 which was a substantial improvement over our operational income (absent the impact of a restructuring recovery) in fiscal 2005, which was $27.6 million. In addition, we rationalized our product portfolio and made significant progress with our global partner program, particularly with Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. We received Microsoft’s Global ISV (Independent Software Vendor) of the year award and launched a program with Oracle which will include the joint selling of Oracle and Open Text products.

Revenue by Product Type

The following tables set forth our revenues by product and as a percentage of the related product revenue for the periods indicated:

 

(In thousands)

   2006    2005   

% Change

From Fiscal
2005-2006

 

License

   $ 122,520    $ 136,522    (10.3 )%

Customer support

     183,878      179,178    2.6 %

Services

     103,164      99,128    4.1 %
                    

Total

   $ 409,562    $ 414,828    (1.3 )%
                    

 

(% of total revenue)

        2006               2005       

License

   29.9 %   32.9 %

Customer support

   44.9 %   43.2 %

Services

   25.2 %   23.9 %
            

Total

   100.0 %   100.0 %
            

 

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License revenue

License revenue decreased by approximately $14.0 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. The drop was primarily due to structural re-alignment of certain sales forces around the world, which decreased license revenue by approximately $16.3 million, as we continued to focus on streamlining our operations and to focus on future profitability. This decrease was offset by improved results in North America, where license revenue increased by approximately $5.6 million compared with fiscal 2005. We believe the increased license revenue in North America was the result of a greater demand in North America for our ECM and SAP solutions. The remaining decrease in license revenue is attributable to a negative foreign exchange impact of $3.3 million.

Customer support revenue

Customer support revenue increased by approximately $4.7 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. All geographic regions contributed to the increase in customer support revenue from fiscal 2005 to fiscal 2006.

Service revenue

Service revenue remained relatively stable in fiscal 2006 increasing slightly by $4.0 million compared to fiscal 2005. Service revenue was strong in North America; however it was offset by a weakening in Europe when compared to fiscal 2005.

Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin by Product Type

The following tables set forth the changes in cost of revenues and gross margin by product type for the periods indicated:

 

(In thousands)

   2006    2005    % Change
From Fiscal
2005-2006
 

License

   $ 11,196    $ 11,540    (3.0 )%

Customer Support

     28,908      33,086    (12.6 )%

Service

     83,469      81,367    2.6 %

Amortization of acquired technology acquired intangible

     18,900      16,175    16.8 %
                    

Total

   $ 142,473    $ 142,168    0.2 %
                    

 

Gross Margin

       2006             2005      

License

   90.9 %   91.5 %

Customer Support

   84.3 %   81.5 %

Service

   19.1 %   17.9 %

Cost of license revenue

Cost of license revenues decreased in fiscal 2006 as our license revenues decreased, but the gross margin on licenses has remained stable over fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2005 due to the fact that our overall cost structure has remained relatively unchanged.

Cost of customer support revenues

Cost of customer support revenues decreased by $4.2 million in fiscal 2006 over fiscal 2005 due to operational efficiencies achieved as the result of our global restructuring efforts.

 

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Cost of service revenues

Cost of service revenues increased by $2.1 million in fiscal 2006 versus fiscal 2005 due to higher direct marketing costs offset by reduced professional services and training costs. Cost of service revenues as a percentage of service revenues remained stable at 80.9 % in fiscal 2006 compared to 82.1% in fiscal 2005.

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets increased by $2.7 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. The increase is due to the full year impact of the amortization of intangibles relating to our fiscal 2005 acquisitions.

Operating Expenses

The following table sets forth total operating expenses by function and as a percentage of total revenue for the periods indicated:

 

(In thousands)

   2006    2005     % Change
From Fiscal
2005-2006
 

Research and development

   $ 58,469    $ 65,139     (10.2 )%

Sales and marketing

     104,225      114,553     (9.0 )%

General and administrative

     44,960      46,110     (2.5 )%

Depreciation

     11,103      11,040     0.6 %

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

     9,199      8,234     11.7 %

Special charges (recoveries)

     26,182      (1,724 )   N/A  
                     

Total

   $ 254,138    $ 243,352     4.4 %
                     

 

(in % of total revenue)

        2006               2005       

Research and development

   14.3 %   15.7 %

Sales and marketing

   25.4 %   27.6 %

General and administrative

   11.0 %   11.1 %

Depreciation

   2.7 %   2.7 %

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

   2.2 %   2.0 %

Special charges (recoveries)

   6.4 %   (0.4 )%

Research and development expenses

Research and development expenses decreased by $6.7 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 primarily due to a favorable reduction of labour expenses of $4.4 million owing to a reduction of headcount in fiscal 2006, a reduction in overhead expenses of $1.9 million and recoverable input tax credits of $1.0 million offset by share-based payment expenses of $1.3 million. The remaining decrease was the result of savings from miscellaneous expenses.

Sales and marketing expenses

Sales and marketing expenses declined by $10.3 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. This decline relates primarily to a $7.4 million reduction of labour costs attributable to a reduction of headcount in fiscal 2006, a reduction of $3.0 million in marketing expenses, a reduction of $2.1 million in overhead allocations offset by an increase of $2.0 million of share-based payment expenses and the rest due to miscellaneous increases in costs.

 

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General and administrative expenses

General and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales have remained stable over both fiscal 2006 and fiscal 2005. These expenses increased marginally in absolute dollar terms as a result of a decrease in consulting and compliance related costs offset partially by an increase due to stock compensation expenses.

Depreciation expenses

Depreciation expenses increased marginally in fiscal 2006 over fiscal 2005 due to additions in capital assets relating primarily to the addition of the Waterloo building and computer equipment.

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

The $1.0 million increase in amortization in fiscal 2006 over fiscal 2005 is due to the full year impact of the amortization of intangibles relating to our fiscal 2005 acquisitions.

Special charges (recoveries)

The following table sets forth the details of “Special charges”:

 

(In thousands)

       2006             2005      

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan

   $ 21,623     $ —    

Fiscal 2004 Restructuring Plan

     (306 )     (1,724 )

Impairment of acquired technology intangible assets

     1,046       —    

Impairment of acquired capital assets

     3,819       —    
                

Total

   $ 26,182     $ (1,724 )
                

For more details on special charges, see Note 17 “Special Charges (Recoveries)” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

A discussion of the significant items that impacted special charges in fiscal 2006 is as follows:

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan

In the first quarter of fiscal 2006, we commenced the implementation of a restructuring plan to streamline operations and consolidate excess facilities. In fiscal 2006 we incurred a cash outlay of $15.5 million relating to this plan.

Impairment of capital assets

We recorded $3.8 million of capital asset write downs in fiscal 2006 relating primarily to write downs of leasehold improvements located in premises that were vacated on account of the fiscal 2006 restructuring plan.

Income taxes

We recorded a tax provision of $4.1 million in fiscal 2006 compared to $7.0 million during fiscal 2005 and $7.3 million in fiscal 2004. This equates to an effective tax rate of 42.4% in fiscal 2006 versus an effective tax rate of 25.2% and 22.8% in fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2004, respectively. The increase in our effective tax rate in fiscal 2006 versus the two preceding fiscal years is due to the fact that the corresponding tax benefit had not been realized on losses that resulted from our fiscal 2006 restructuring charge.

 

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Our deferred tax assets totaling $65.9 million are based upon available income tax losses and future income tax deductions. Our ability to use these income tax losses and future income tax deductions is dependent upon us generating income in the tax jurisdictions in which such losses or deductions arose. The recognized deferred tax liability of $31.7 million is primarily made up of three components. The first component relates to $23.0 million arising from the amortization of timing differences relating to acquired intangible assets and future income inclusions. The second component of $4.1 million relates primarily to deferred credits arising from non capital losses and undeducted scientific research and development experimental expenditures acquired at a discount on asset acquisitions, which will be included in taxable income as they are utilized. The third component of $1.4 million relates to deferred tax liability arising from investment tax credits. We record a valuation allowance against deferred income tax assets when we believe it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred income tax assets will not be realized. Based on the reversal of deferred income tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, the character of the income tax asset and tax planning strategies, we have determined that a valuation allowance of $127.5 million is required in respect to our deferred income tax assets as at June 30, 2006. (A valuation allowance of $127.6 million was required for the deferred income tax assets as at June 30, 2005). This valuation allowance is primarily attributable to valuation allowances set up based on losses incurred in the year in certain foreign jurisdictions. In order to fully utilize the recognized deferred income tax assets of $65.9 million, we will need to generate aggregate future taxable income in applicable jurisdictions of approximately $188.0 million. Based on our current projection of taxable income for the periods in the jurisdictions in which the deferred income tax assets are deductible, it is more likely than not that we will realize the benefit of the recognized deferred income tax assets as of June 30, 2006.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The following table summarizes the changes in our cash and cash equivalents and cash flows over the periods indicated:

 

(in thousands)

   June 30,
2006
    June 30,
2005
    Change
in %
 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 107,354     $ 79,898     34.4 %

Net cash provided by (used in):

      

Operating activities

     60,798       57,264     6.2 %

Investing activities

     (54,727 )     (77,383 )   (29.3 )%

Financing activities

     18,202       (58,920 )   (130.9 )%

Net cash provided by operating activities

Net cash provided by operating activities increased by approximately $3.5 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005 as a result of an increase in non cash adjustments of approximately $11.0 million and an increase in operating assets and liabilities of approximately $7.9 million. The increase in net cash provided by operating activities was offset by a decrease in net income of approximately $15.4 million.

Net cash used in investing activities

Net cash used in investing activities decreased by approximately $22.7 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. The overall decrease in investing expenditures was primarily due to the fact that we did not make any business acquisitions in fiscal 2006 (which represented approximately $31.5 million in spending in fiscal 2005) and our acquisition-related costs were lower by $5.7 million. In addition, we also spent $9.1 million less in fiscal 2006 than fiscal 2005 purchasing IXOS and Gauss shares. These savings in investment were offset by our increased capital spending of $1.4 million, $2.1 million on prior period acquisitions and an investment of $20.2 million in shares of Hummingbird.

 

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Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

Net cash provided by financing increased by approximately $77.1 million in fiscal 2006 compared to fiscal 2005. This increase was primarily due to the fact that we did not repurchase any of our Common Shares in fiscal 2006, which represented $63.8 million in spending in fiscal 2005 and as a result of the mortgage financing we secured on our Waterloo building, which represented approximately $12.9 million in fiscal 2006.

In fiscal 2006 we secured a demand operating facility of CDN $40.0 million with a Canadian chartered bank. Borrowings under this facility bear interest at varying rates depending upon the nature of the borrowing. We have pledged certain of our assets as collateral for this demand operating facility. There are no stand-by fees for this facility. As of June 30, 2006, there were no borrowings outstanding under this facility.

We anticipate that our cash and cash equivalents, available credit facilities and committed loan facilities will be sufficient to fund our anticipated cash requirements for working capital, contractual commitments and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months.

Commitments and Contractual Obligations

We have entered into the following contractual obligations with minimum annual payments for the indicated fiscal periods as follows:

 

     Payments due by Fiscal year ended June 30,
     Total    2007    2008 to 2009    2010-2011    2012 and beyond

Long-term debt obligations

   $ 16,322    $ 1,089    $ 2,178    $ 13,055    $ —  

Operating lease obligations *

     93,663      19,185      35,280      27,467      11,731

Purchase obligations

     4,584      2,370      1,776      438      —  
                                  
   $ 114,569    $ 22,644    $ 39,234    $ 40,960    $ 11,731
                                  

* Net of $6.2 million of non-cancelable sub-lease income we are to receive from properties which we have sub-leased to other parties.

Rental expense of $11.3 million, $15.5 million and $14.3 million was recorded during the Fiscal years ended June 30, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

 

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

We are primarily exposed to market risks associated with fluctuations in interest rates on our term loan and foreign currency exchange rates.

Interest rate risk

Our exposure to interest rate fluctuations relates primarily to our term loan, as we had no borrowings outstanding under our line of credit at June 30, 2007. As of June 30, 2007 we had an outstanding balance of $357.1 million on this loan. The term loan bears a floating interest rate of LIBOR plus 2.5%. As of June 30, 2007, an adverse change in LIBOR of 300 basis points (3.0%) would have the effect of increasing our annual interest payment on the term loan by approximately $10.7 million assuming the loan balance as of June 30, 2007 is outstanding for the entire period.

We manage our interest rate exposure, relating to $195.0 million of the above mentioned term loan, with an interest rate collar that partially hedges the fluctuation in LIBOR. The collar has a notional value of $195.0 million, a cap rate of 5.34% and a floor rate of 4.79%. This has the effect of circumscribing our maximum floating interest rate risk within the range of 5.34% to 4.79%. The collar expires in December 2009.

 

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Foreign currency risk

A substantial portion of our cash and cash equivalents are held in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, on account of our global operations. As of June 30, 2007, this balance represented approximately 72% of our total cash and cash equivalents. A 10% adverse change in foreign exchange rates versus the U.S. dollar would have decreased our reported cash and cash equivalents by approximately 7%.

Our global operations expose us to foreign currency fluctuations. Revenues and related expenses generated from our international subsidiaries are generally denominated in the functional currencies of the local countries. Our primary currencies include Euros, Canadian Dollars, Swiss Francs and British Pounds. The Consolidated Statements of Income of our global operations are translated into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rates in each applicable period. To the extent the U.S. dollar strengthens against foreign currencies, the foreign currency conversion of these foreign currency denominated transactions into U.S. dollars results in reduced revenues, operating expenses and net income for our international operations. Similarly, our revenues, operating expenses and net income will increase for our international operations, if the U.S. dollar weakens against foreign currencies. We cannot predict the effect foreign exchange fluctuations will have on our results going forward. However, if there is an adverse change in foreign exchange rates versus the U.S. dollar, it could have a material effect on our results of operations.

 

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

   Page Number

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

   53

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

   54

Consolidated Balance Sheets at June 30, 2007 and 2006

   55

Consolidated Statements of Income for the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006, and 2005

   56

Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006, and 2005

   57

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006, and 2005

   58

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

   59

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders

Open Text Corporation:

We have audited Open Text Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2007, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Open Text Corporation’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included under Part II, Item 9A of this Form 10-K. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In our opinion, Open Text Corporation maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2007, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

Open Text Corporation acquired Hummingbird Ltd. during the year ended June 30, 2007, and management excluded from its assessment of the effectiveness of Open Text Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2007, Hummingbird Ltd.’s internal control over financial reporting. Assets of Hummingbird Ltd. represents approximately 29% of total assets included in the consolidated financial statements of Open Text Corporation as of June 30, 2007. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting of Open Text Corporation also excluded an evaluation of the internal control over financial reporting of Hummingbird Ltd.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States, the consolidated balance sheets of Open Text Corporation as of June 30, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 30, 2007, and our report dated September 11, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

/s/    KPMG LLP, Licensed Public Accountants

Toronto, Canada

September 11, 2007

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Shareholders

Open Text Corporation

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Open Text Corporation (and subsidiaries) as of June 30, 2007 and 2006, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 30, 2007. These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Open Text Corporation as of June 30, 2007 and 2006, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 30, 2007, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Open Text Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2007, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated September 11, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

/s/    KPMG LLP, Licensed Public Accountants

Toronto, Canada

September 11, 2007

 

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OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands of U.S. Dollars, except share data)

 

     June 30,  
     2007     2006  
ASSETS     

Current assets:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 149,979     $ 107,354  

Accounts receivable trade, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $2,089 as of June 30, 2007 and $2,736 as of June 30, 2006 (note 8)

     128,781       75,016  

Income taxes recoverable (note 16)

     31,060       10,917  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     10,368       7,879  

Deferred tax assets (note 16)

     30,248       28,724  
                

Total current assets

     350,436       229,890  

Investments in marketable securities (note 3)

     —         21,025  

Capital assets (note 4)

     43,614       41,262  

Goodwill (note 5)

     528,312       235,523  

Acquired intangible assets (note 6)

     343,324       102,326  

Deferred tax assets (note 16)

     42,078       37,185  

Other assets (note 7)

     9,524       2,326  

Investment tax recoverable (note 16)

     9,557       8,498  
                
   $ 1,326,845     $ 678,035  
                
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY     

Current liabilities:

    

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities (note 9)

   $ 100,211     $ 62,535  

Current portion of long-term debt (note 10)

     4,048       405  

Deferred revenues

     143,097       74,687  

Income taxes payable (note 16)

     33,705       6,942  

Deferred tax liabilities (note 16)

     1,601       12,183  
                

Total current liabilities

     282,662       156,752  

Long-term liabilities:

    

Accrued liabilities (note 9)

     22,516       21,121  

Long-term debt (note 10)

     366,765       12,963  

Deferred revenues

     3,840       3,534  

Deferred tax liabilities (note 16)

     120,019       19,490  
                

Total long-term liabilities

     513,140       57,108  

Minority interest

     6,975       5,804  

Shareholders’ equity:

    

Share capital (note 11)

    

50,180,118 and 48,935,042 Common Shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2007 and June 30, 2006, respectively; Authorized Common Shares: unlimited

     426,188       414,475  

Additional paid-in capital

     35,311       28,367  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     68,034       42,654  

Accumulated deficit

     (5,465 )     (27,125 )
                

Total shareholders’ equity

     524,068       458,371  
                
   $ 1,326,845     $ 678,035  
                

Commitments and contingencies (note 13)

    

Related party transactions (note 20)

    

Subsequent events (note 21)

    

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME

(In thousands of U.S. Dollars, except share and per share data)

 

     Year ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2005  

Revenues:

      

License

   $ 182,507     $ 122,520     $ 136,522  

Customer support

     287,570       183,878       179,178  

Service

     125,587       103,164       99,128  
                        

Total revenues

     595,664       409,562       414,828  
                        

Cost of revenues:

      

License

     13,652       11,196       11,540  

Customer support

     46,177       28,908       33,086  

Service

     105,517       83,469       81,367  

Amortization of acquired technology intangible assets

     36,206       18,900       16,175  
                        

Total cost of revenues

     201,552       142,473       142,168  
                        
     394,112       267,089       272,660  
                        

Operating expenses:

      

Research and development

     79,063       58,469       65,139  

Sales and marketing

     150,643       104,225       114,553  

General and administrative

     62,140       44,960       46,110  

Depreciation

     13,846       11,103       11,040  

Amortization of acquired intangible assets

     24,586       9,199       8,234  

Special charges (recoveries) (note 17)

     12,908       26,182       (1,724 )
                        

Total operating expenses

     343,186       254,138       243,352  
                        

Income from operations

     50,926       12,951       29,308  
                        

Other income (expense) (note 18)

     1,742       (4,788 )     (3,116 )

Interest income (expense), net

     (20,282 )     1,487       1,377  
                        

Income before income taxes

     32,386       9,650       27,569  

Provision for income taxes (note 16)

     10,334       4,093       6,958  
                        

Net income before minority interest

     22,052       5,557       20,611  

Minority interest

     392       579       252  
                        

Net income for the year

   $ 21,660     $ 4,978     $ 20,359  
                        

Net income per share—basic (note 19)

   $ 0.44     $ 0.10     $ 0.41  
                        

Net income per share—diluted (note 19)

   $ 0.43     $ 0.10     $ 0.39  
                        

Weighted average number of Common Shares outstanding—basic

     49,392,845       48,666,139       49,918,541  
                        

Weighted average number of Common Shares outstanding—diluted

     50,907,897       49,949,593       52,091,860  
                        

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(In thousands of U.S. dollars)

 

    Comprehensive
Income
    Common Shares     Warrants     Commitment
to Issue
Shares
    Additional
Paid in
Capital
  Accumulated
Deficit
    Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
Income
    Total  
      Shares     Amount     Number     Amount            

Balance as of June 30, 2004

  —       51,055     $ 427,015     2,415     22,705     —       $ —     $ (18,529 )   $ 1,814     $ 433,005  

Issuance of Common Shares

                   

Under employee stock option plans

  —       343       2,049     —       —       —         —       —         —         2,049  

Under employee stock purchase plans

  —       260       4,350     —       —       —         —       —         —         4,350  

Under IXOS warrant exercised

  —       38       1,137     (38 )   (364 )   —         —       —         —         773  

Reclass warrants to additional paid in capital on expiration

  —       —         —       (2,377 )   (22,341 )   —         22,341     —         —         —    

Domea eGovernment earn out

  —       —         —       —       —       813       —       —         —         813  

Repurchase and cancellation of shares

  —       (3,559 )     (29,902 )   —       —       —         —       (33,933 )     —         (63,835 )

Income tax benefit related to stock options exercised

  —       —         1,931     —       —       —         —       —         —         1,931  

Comprehensive income:

                   

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  16,845     —         —       —       —       —         —       —         16,845       16,845  

Minimum pension liability, net of tax

  (535 )   —         —       —       —       —         —       —         (535 )     (535 )

Net income for the year

  20,359     —         —       —       —       —         —       20,359       —         20,359  
                                                                   

Total comprehensive income

  36,669                    

Balance as of June 30, 2005

  —       48,137       406,580     —       —       813       22,341     (32,103 )     18,124       415,755  

Issuance of Common Shares

                   

Under employee stock option plans

  —       470       3,663     —       —       —         5,161     —         —         8,824  

Under employee stock purchase plans

  —       281       3,419     —       —       —         —       —         —         3,419  

Acquisition of DOMEA eGovernment

  —       47       813     —       —       (813 )     —       —         —         —    

Income tax benefit related to stock options exercised

  —       —         —       —       —       —         865     —         —         865  

Comprehensive income:

                   

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  24,622     —         —       —       —       —         —       —         24,622       24,622  

Minimum pension liability, net of tax

  (47 )   —         —       —       —       —         —       —         (47 )     (47 )

Unrealized holding losses on available-for-sale securities, net of tax

  (45 )                   (45 )     (45 )

Net income for the year

  4,978     —         —       —       —       —         —       4,978       —         4,978  
                                                                   

Total comprehensive income

  29,508                    

Balance as of June 30, 2006

    48,935       414,475     —       —       —         28,367     (27,125 )     42,654       458,371  

Issuance of Common Shares

                   

Under employee stock option plans

  —       1,207       11,092     —       —       —         5,375     —         —         16,467  

Under employee stock purchase plans

  —       38       621     —       —       —         —       —         —         621  

Stock compensation of Hummingbird

  —       —         —       —       —       —         286     —         —         286  

Income tax effect related to stock options

  —       —         —       —       —       —         1,283     —         —         1,283  

Comprehensive income:

                   

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  25,075     —         —       —       —       —         —       —         25,075       25,075  

Unrealized holding losses on available-for-sale securities, net of tax

  45                     45       45  

Minimum pension liability

  582     —         —       —       —       —         —       —         582       582  

Adoption of SFAS 158 (note 2)

  (322 )   —         —       —       —       —         —       —         (322 )     (322 )

Net income for the year

  21,660     —         —       —       —       —         —       21,660       —         21,660  
                                                                   

Total comprehensive income

  47,040                    

Balance as of June 30, 2007

    50,180     $ 426,188     —       —       —       $ 35,311   $ (5,465 )   $ 68,034     $ 524,068  
                                                                   

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands of U.S. Dollars)

 

     Year ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2005  

Cash flows from operating activities:

      

Net income for the year

   $ 21,660     $ 4,978     $ 20,359  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

      

Depreciation and amortization

     74,638       39,202       35,449  

Share-based compensation expense

     5,376       5,196       —    

Undistributed earnings related to minority interest

     392       579       252  

Amortization of debt issuance costs

     805       —         —    

Unrealized (gain) loss on financial instruments

     (380 )     —         —    

Deferred taxes

     (19,097 )     (4,314 )     (1,168 )

Impairment of capital assets

     —         3,819       —    

Impairment of intangible assets

     697       1,046       —    

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

      

Accounts receivable

     11,089       9,406       6,452  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     1,425       (65 )     (1,327 )

Income taxes

     (9,598 )     (3,818 )     (3,902 )

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

     6,195       (3,204 )     (4,489 )

Deferred revenue

     13,746       5,228       7,224  

Other assets

     3,916       2,745       (1,586 )
                        

Net cash provided by operating activities

     110,864       60,798       57,264  

Cash flows from investing activities:

      

Acquisition of capital assets

     (5,260 )     (19,278 )     (17,909 )

Purchase of Optura, net of cash acquired

     —         —         (3,347 )

Purchase of Vista, net of cash acquired

     —         —         (23,690 )

Purchase of Artesia, net of cash acquired

     —         —         (4,475 )

Purchase of IXOS, net of cash acquired

     (1,427 )     (5,126 )     (13,779 )

Purchase of Hummingbird, net of cash acquired

     (384,761 )     —         —    

Purchase of Momentum, net of cash acquired

     (4,076 )     —         —    

Additional purchase consideration for prior period acquisitions

     (856 )     (3,284 )     (1,669 )

Investments in marketable securities

     (829 )     (20,241 )     —    

Acquisition related costs

     (39,061 )     (6,798 )     (12,514 )
                        

Net cash used in investment activities

     (436,270 )     (54,727 )     (77,383 )

Cash flow from financing activities:

      

Payment of obligations under capital leases

     —         —         (68 )

Excess tax benefits on share-based compensation expense

     1,285       865       —    

Repurchase of Common Shares

     —         —         (63,835 )

Proceeds from issuance of Common Shares

     11,734       4,569       6,399  

Proceeds from exercise of warrants

     —         —         773  

Proceeds from long-term debt

     390,000       12,928       —    

Repayment of short-term bank loan

     —         —         (2,189 )

Repayment of long-term debt

     (33,247 )     (160 )     —    

Debt issuance costs

     (7,433 )     —         —    
                        

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     362,339       18,202       (58,920 )

Foreign exchange gain on cash held in foreign currencies

     5,692       3,183       1,950  

Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents during the year

     42,625       27,456       (77,089 )

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of the year

     107,354       79,898       156,987  
                        

Cash and cash equivalents at end of the year

   $ 149,979     $ 107,354     $ 79,898  
                        

Supplementary cash flow disclosures (note 14)

      

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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OPEN TEXT CORPORATION

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Tabular amounts in thousands, except per share data)

NOTE 1—NATURE OF OPERATIONS

Open Text Corporation (the “Company” or “Open Text”) develops, markets, sells, and supports Enterprise Content Management (“ECM”) solutions. The Company’s principal product is called Livelink®. The Company offers its solutions both as end-user stand alone products and as fully integrated modules. Open Text markets and licenses its products and services primarily in North America and Europe.

NOTE 2—SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of presentation

These consolidated financial statements are expressed in U.S. dollars and are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”).

Basis of consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Open Text Corporation and its subsidiaries, all of which are wholly-owned with the exception of IXOS Software AG (“IXOS”), which as of June 30, 2007 and June 30, 2006, was 96.02% and 95.52% owned, respectively. All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated. The Company has recorded a minority interest on its balance sheet in respect of IXOS to reflect the non-controlling interest in IXOS. The information furnished includes the financial results of Hummingbird Ltd. (“Hummingbird”), with effect from October 2, 2006, and Momentum Systems Inc. (“Momentum”), with effect from March 2, 2007 (see Note 15—“Acquisitions” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements).

Use of estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions, which are evaluated on an ongoing basis, that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that it believes are reasonable at that time, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from those estimates. In particular, significant estimates, judgments and assumptions include those related to revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, testing goodwill for impairment, the valuation of acquired intangible assets, long-lived assets, the recognition of contingencies, facility and restructuring accruals, acquisition accruals, asset retirement obligations, realization of investment tax credits, and the valuation allowance relating to the Company’s deferred tax assets.

Reclassifications

Certain prior period comparative figures have been adjusted to conform to current period presentation including the reclassification of $6.9 million to income taxes payable from income taxes receivable, for the year ended June 30, 2006. In addition, a reclassification of $549,000 was recorded from prepaid expenses and current assets to income tax recoverable, and $8.5 million was reclassified from income tax recoverable to investment tax recoverable, for the year ended June 30, 2006.

For the year ended June 30, 2006, Cost of customer support revenues and Cost of service revenues have been increased by approximately $730,000 and $555,000, respectively, with corresponding decreases of

 

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approximately $715,000, $194,000, and $376,000 in Research and development expenses, Sales and marketing expenses, and General and administrative expenses, respectively, from previously reported amounts. These reclassifications related to a change in the method of allocating operating expenses within the Company.

Service revenues increased by approximately $5.5 million for the year ended June 30, 2006, offset by a decrease in Customer support revenues of approximately $5.5 million from previously reported amounts. Cost of service revenues increased by approximately $3.3 million for the year ended June 30, 2006, offset by a decrease in Cost of customer support revenue of approximately $3.3 million from previously reported amounts. These changes correspond to an internal reclassification pertaining to the Company’s Enterprise Support Program (“ESP program”). The ESP program is a customized “on-site” support program that provides support services that suit the specific requirements of the Company’s customers.

There was no change to income from operations or net income (loss) per share in any of the periods presented as a result of these reclassifications.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents include investments that have terms to maturity of three months or less at the time of acquisition. Cash equivalents are recorded at cost and typically consist of term deposits, commercial paper, U.S. dollar denominated Canadian federal government securities or short-term interest bearing investment-grade securities and demand accounts of a major Canadian chartered bank.

Capital assets

Capital assets are stated at cost and are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the related assets. Gains and losses on asset disposals are taken into income in the year of disposition. The following represents the estimated useful lives of capital assets:

 

Furniture and fixtures

   5 to 10 years

Office equipment

   5 years

Computer hardware

   3 to 7 years

Computer software

   3 years

Leasehold improvements

   Over the term of the lease

Building

   40 years

Business combinations

The Company accounts for acquisitions of companies in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 141, “Business Combinations” (“SFAS 141”). The Company allocates the purchase price to tangible assets, intangible assets and liabilities based on estimated fair values at the date of acquisition with the excess of purchase price, if any, being allocated to goodwill.

Impairment of long-lived assets

The Company accounts for the impairment and disposition of long-lived assets in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets” (“SFAS 144”). The Company tests long-lived assets or asset groups, such as capital assets and definite lived intangible assets, for recoverability when events or changes in circumstances indicate that their carrying amount may not be recoverable. Circumstances which could trigger a review include, but are not limited to: significant adverse changes in the business climate or legal factors; current period cash flow or operating losses combined with a history of losses

 

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or a forecast of continuing losses associated with the use of the asset; and a current expectation that the asset will more likely than not be sold or disposed of before the end of its estimated useful life.

Recoverability is assessed based on comparing the carrying amount of the asset to the aggregate pre-tax undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposal of the asset or asset group. Impairment is recognized when the carrying amount is not recoverable and exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group. The impairment loss, if any, is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds discounted projected future cash flows. The Company recorded an impairment charge for technology assets of $697,000 during the year ended June 30, 2007 and $1.0 million during the year ended June 30, 2006 (see Note 17 “Special Charges (Recoveries)” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more details).

Acquired intangibles

This category consists of acquired technology and contractual relationships associated with various acquisitions, as well as trademarks and patents.

Acquired technology is initially recorded at fair value based on the present value of the estimated net future income-producing capabilities of software products acquired on acquisitions. Acquired technology is amortized over its estimated useful life on a straight-line basis.

Contractual relationships represent relationships that the Company has with certain customers on contractual or legal rights and are considered separable. These contractual relationships were acquired by the Company through business combinations and were initially recorded at their fair value based on the present value of expected future cash flows. Contractual relationships are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life.

The Company continually evaluates the remaining estimated useful life of its intangible assets being amortized to determine whether events and circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining period of amortization.

Goodwill

FASB SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets” (“SFAS 142”), requires that goodwill and other intangible assets with indefinite useful lives be tested for impairment annually or earlier if events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of these assets may not be recoverable.

In accordance with SFAS 142, the Company does not amortize goodwill. The Company performed, in accordance with SFAS 142, its annual impairment analysis of goodwill as of April 1, 2007. The analysis indicated that there was no impairment of goodwill in any of the reporting units. If estimates change, a materially different impairment conclusion could result.

Long-lived assets held for sale

Long-lived assets are classified as held for sale when certain criteria are met, which include: management’s commitment to a plan to sell the assets; the assets are available for immediate sale in their present condition; an active program to locate buyers and other actions to sell the assets have been initiated; the sale of the assets is probable and their transfer is expected to qualify for recognition as a completed sale within one year; the assets are being actively marketed at reasonable prices in relation to their fair value; and it is unlikely that significant changes will be made to the plan to sell the assets or that the plan will be withdrawn.

The Company measures long-lived assets held for sale at the lower of carrying amount or fair value less cost to sell. These assets are not depreciated.

 

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As of June 30, 2007 the Company owned one long-lived asset which has been classified as held for sale (see Note 4 “Capital Assets” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.)

Allowance for doubtful accounts

The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of customers to make payments. The Company evaluates the credit worthiness of its customers prior to order fulfillment and based on these evaluations, adjusts credit limits to the respective customers. In addition to these evaluations, the Company conducts on-going credit evaluations of its customers’ payment history and current credit worthiness. The allowance is maintained for 100% of all accounts deemed to be uncollectible and, for those receivables not specifically identified as uncollectible, an allowance is maintained for a specific percentage of those receivables based upon the aging of accounts, the Company’s historical collection experience and current economic expectations. To date, the actual losses have been within management expectations. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of the accounts receivable balance as of June 30, 2007 and 2006.

Asset retirement obligations

The Company accounts for asset retirement obligations in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” (“SFAS 143”), which applies to certain obligations associated with the retirement of tangible long-lived assets. SFAS 143 requires that a liability be initially recognized for the estimated fair value of the obligation when it is incurred. The associated asset retirement cost is capitalized as part of the carrying amount of the long-lived asset and depreciated over the remaining life of the underlying asset and the associated liability is accreted to the estimated fair value of the obligation at the settlement date through periodic accretion charges recorded within general and administrative expenses. When the obligation is settled, any difference between the final cost and the recorded amount is recognized as income or loss on settlement.

Revenue recognition

a) License revenues

The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with Statement of Position (“SOP”) 97-2, “Software Revenue Recognition”, issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) in October 1997 as amended by SOP 98-9 issued in December 1998.

The Company records product revenue from software licenses and products when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, the software product has been shipped, there are no significant uncertainties surrounding product acceptance, the fees are fixed and determinable and collection is considered probable. The Company uses the residual method to recognize revenue on delivered elements when a license agreement includes one or more elements to be delivered at a future date if evidence of the fair value of all undelivered elements exists. If an undelivered element for the arrangement exists under the license arrangement, revenue related to the undelivered element is deferred based on vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of the fair value of the undelivered element.

The Company’s multiple-element sales arrangements include arrangements where software licenses and the associated post contract customer support (“PCS”) are sold together. The Company has established VSOE of the fair value of the undelivered PCS element based on the contracted price for renewal PCS included in the original multiple element sales arrangement, as substantiated by contractual terms and the Company’s significant PCS renewal experience, from its existing worldwide base. The Company’s multiple element sales arrangements generally include rights for the customer to renew PCS after the bundled term ends. These rights are irrevocable to the customer’s benefit, are for specified prices and the customer is not subject to any economic or other penalty for failure to renew. Further, the renewal PCS options are for services comparable to the bundled PCS and cover similar terms.

 

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It is the Company’s experience that customers generally exercise their renewal PCS option. In the renewal transaction, PCS is sold on a stand-alone basis to the licensees one year or more after the original multiple element sales arrangement. The renewal PCS price is consistent with the renewal price in the original multiple element sales arrangement although an adjustment to reflect consumer price changes is not uncommon.

If VSOE of fair value does not exist for all undelivered elements, all revenue is deferred until sufficient evidence exists or all elements have been delivered.

The Company assesses whether payment terms are customary or extended in accordance with normal practice relative to the market in which the sale is occurring. The Company’s sales arrangements generally include standard payment terms. These terms effectively relate to all customers, products, and arrangements regardless of customer type, product mix or arrangement size. The only time exceptions are made to these standard terms is on certain sales in parts of the world where local practice differs. In these jurisdictions, the Company’s customary payment terms are in line with local practice.

b) Service revenues

Service revenues consist of revenues from consulting, implementation, training and integration services. These services are set forth separately in the contractual arrangements such that the total price of the customer arrangement is expected to vary as a result of the inclusion or exclusion of these services. For those contracts where the services are not essential to the functionality of any other element of the transaction, the Company determines VSOE of fair value for these services based upon normal pricing and discounting practices for these services when sold separately. These consulting and implementation services contracts are primarily time and materials based contracts that are, on average, less than six months in length. Revenue from these services is recognized at the time such services are rendered as the time is incurred by the Company.

The Company also enters into contracts that are primarily fixed fee arrangements wherein the services are not essential to the functionality of a software element. In such cases the proportional performance method is applied to recognize revenue.

Revenues from training and integration services are recognized in the period in which these services are performed.

c) Customer support revenues

Customer support revenues consist of revenue derived from contracts to provide PCS to license holders. These revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the contract. Advance billings of PCS are not recorded to the extent that the term of the PCS has not commenced and payment has not been received.

Deferred revenue

Deferred revenue primarily relates to support agreements which have been paid for by customers prior to the performance of those services. Generally, the services will be provided in the next twelve months.

Research and development costs

Research and development costs internally incurred in creating computer software to be sold, licensed or otherwise marketed, are expensed as incurred unless they meet the criteria for deferral and amortization, described in FASB SFAS No. 86 “Accounting for the Costs of Corporate Software to be Sold, Released, or Otherwise Marketed” (“SFAS 86”). In accordance with SFAS 86, costs related to research, design and development of products are charged to expenses as incurred and capitalized between the dates that the product is considered to be technologically feasible and is considered to be ready for general release to customers.

 

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In the Company’s historical experience, the dates relating to the achievement of technological feasibility and general release of the product have substantially coincided. In addition, no significant costs are incurred subsequent to the establishment of technological feasibility. As a result, the Company does not capitalize any research and development costs relating to internally developed software to be sold, licensed or otherwise marketed.

Income taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” (“SFAS 109”). Deferred tax assets and liabilities arise from temporary differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their reported amounts in the consolidated financial statements that will result in taxable or deductible amounts in future years. These temporary differences are measured using enacted tax rates. A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce deferred tax assets to the extent that management considers it is more likely than not that a deferred tax asset will not be realized. In determining the valuation allowance, management considers factors such as the reversal of deferred income tax liabilities, projected taxable income, and the character of income tax assets and tax planning strategies. A change to these factors could impact the estimated valuation allowance and income tax expense.

In addition, the Company is subject to examinations by taxation authorities of the jurisdictions in which the Company operates in the normal course of operations. The Company regularly assesses the status of these examinations and the potential for adverse outcomes to determine the adequacy of the provision for income and other taxes.

Fair value of financial instruments

Carrying amounts of certain financial instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable (trade and accrued liabilities) approximate their fair value due to the relatively short period of time between origination of the instruments and their expected realization.

The fair value of the Company’s long-term debt approximates its carrying value.

Financial instruments and hedge accounting

The Company follows the provisions of FASB SFAS No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities” as amended (“SFAS 133”). SFAS 133 requires that all derivative instruments be recorded on the balance sheet at fair value. Changes in the fair value of the derivatives are recorded each period in current earnings or other comprehensive income, depending upon whether the derivative is part of a hedge transaction and meets specific hedge accounting criteria.

Foreign currency translation

The consolidated financial statements of Open Text are presented in U.S. dollars. In general, the functional currency of the Company’s subsidiaries is the local currency. For such subsidiaries assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S dollars at the exchange rates in effect at balance sheet dates and revenue and expenses are translated at the average exchange rates prevailing during the month of the transaction. The effect of foreign currency translation adjustments not affecting net income are included in Shareholders’ equity under the “Cumulative translation adjustment” account as a component of “Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)”. Transactional foreign currency gains (losses) are included in the Consolidated Statements of Income under the line item “Other income (expense)”. For details see Note 18 “Other Income (expense)” in the Notes to these Consolidated Financial Statements. The unrealized translation gains and losses on the Company’s net investment in these subsidiaries, including long-term intercompany advances are accumulated under the “Cumulative translation adjustment” account as a component of “Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)”.

 

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Restructuring charges

The Company records restructuring charges relating to contractual lease obligations and other exit costs in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 146, “Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities” (“SFAS 146”). SFAS 146 requires recognition of costs associated with an exit or disposal activity when the liability is incurred and can be measured at fair value.

The Company records restructuring charges relating to employee termination costs in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 112, “Accounting for Post Employment Benefits” (“SFAS 112”). SFAS 112 applies to post-employment benefits provided to employees under on going benefit arrangements. In accordance with SFAS 112, the Company records such charges when the termination benefits are capable of being determined or estimated in advance, from either the provisions of the Company’s policy or from past practices, the benefits are attributable to services already rendered and the obligation relates to rights that vest or accumulate.

The recognition of restructuring charges requires management to make certain judgments regarding the nature, timing and amount associated with the planned restructuring activities, including estimating sub-lease income and the net recoverable amount of equipment to be disposed of. At the end of each reporting period, the Company evaluates the appropriateness of the remaining accrued balances.

Litigation

The Company is currently involved in various claims and legal proceedings. Quarterly, the Company reviews the status of each significant matter and assesses its potential financial exposure. If the potential loss from any claim or legal proceeding is considered probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated, the Company accrues a liability for the estimated loss.

Net income per share

Basic net income per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding including contingently issuable shares where the contingency has been resolved. Diluted net income per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares and stock equivalents outstanding using the treasury stock method during the year (see Note 19 “Net Income Per Share” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more details.)

Share-based payment

On July 1, 2005, the Company adopted the fair value-based method for measurement and cost recognition of employee share-based compensation arrangements under the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. (“SFAS”) 123 (Revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS 123R”), using the modified prospective transitional method. Previously, the Company had elected to account for employee share-based compensation using the intrinsic value method based upon Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees” (“APB 25”) and related interpretations. The intrinsic value method generally did not result in any compensation cost being recorded for employee stock options since the exercise price was equal to the market price of the underlying shares on the date of grant.

Under the modified prospective transitional method, share-based compensation is recognized for awards granted, modified, repurchased or cancelled subsequent to the adoption of SFAS 123R. In addition, share-based compensation is recognized, subsequent to the adoption of SFAS 123R, for the remaining portion of the vesting period (if any) for outstanding awards granted prior to the date of adoption. Prior periods have not been adjusted and the Company continues to provide pro forma disclosure as if it had accounted for employee share-based payments in all periods presented under the fair value provisions of SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-based Compensation”, which is presented below.

 

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The Company measures share-based compensation costs on the grant date, based on the calculated fair value of the award. The Company has elected to treat awards with graded vesting as a single award when estimating fair value. Compensation cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the employee requisite service period, which in the Company’s circumstances is the stated vesting period of the award, provided that total compensation cost recognized at least equals the pro rata value of the award that has vested. Compensation cost is initially based on the estimated number of options for which the requisite service is expected to be rendered. This estimate is adjusted in the period once actual forfeitures are known.

Had the Company adopted the fair value-based method for accounting for share-based compensation in all prior periods presented, the pro-forma impact on net income and net income per share would be as follows:

 

     Year ended
June 30, 2005

Net income for the period:

  

As reported

   $ 20,359

Share-based compensation cost not recognized in net income

     6,035
      

Pro forma

   $ 14,324
      

Net income per share—basic

  

As reported

   $ 0.41

Pro forma

   $ 0.29

Net income per share—diluted

  

As reported

   $ 0.39

Pro forma

   $ 0.27

Refer to Note 11 “Share Capital, Option Plans and Share-Based Payments” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details of stock options and share-based compensation costs recorded during the year ended June 30, 2007.

Recently issued accounting pronouncements

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities—Including an Amendment of FASB Statement No. 115” (“SFAS 159”). SFAS 159 permits an entity to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value. Most of the provisions in SFAS 159 are elective; however, the amendment to FASB Statement No. 115, “Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities”, applies to all entities with available-for-sale and trading securities. SFAS 159 is effective for the Company beginning July 1, 2008. The Company is currently assessing the potential impact that the adoption of SFAS 159 will have on its financial statements.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans—an Amendment of FASB Statements 87,88,106, and 132(R)” (“SFAS 158”). SFAS 158 requires an employer to recognize the over funded or under funded status of defined benefit plan and post-retirement plan (other than a multi employer plan) as an asset or a liability in its statement of financial position and to recognize changes in that funded status in the year in which the changes occur through comprehensive income. Based upon the funded status of Open Text’s pension plans the adoption of SFAS 158 has had the effect of decreasing pension liabilities by $260,000 and increasing shareholders’ equity by the same amount.

In September 2006, the United States Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 108, “Considering the Effects of Prior year Misstatements when Quantifying Current year Misstatements”, (“SAB 108”). SAB 108 requires analysis of misstatements using both an income statement (rollover) approach and a balance sheet (iron curtain) approach in assessing materiality and provides for a one-time cumulative effect transition adjustment. SAB 108 is effective for the Company’s fiscal year 2007 annual financial statements. The adoption of SAB 108 did not have any impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

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In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements”, and (“SFAS 157”), which defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles, and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS 157 does not require any new fair value measurements, but provides guidance on how to measure fair value by providing a fair value hierarchy used to classify the source of the information. This statement is effective for the Company beginning July 1, 2008. The Company is currently assessing the potential impact that the adoption of SFAS 157 will have on its financial statements.

In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48 on Accounting for Uncertain Tax Positions—an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”). Under FIN 48, an entity should presume that a taxing authority will examine a tax position when evaluating its position for recognition and measurement; therefore, assessment of the probability of the risk of examination is not appropriate. In applying the provisions of FIN 48, there will be distinct recognition and measurement evaluations. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates it is more likely than not, based solely on the technical merits, that the position will be sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step is to measure the appropriate amount of the benefit to recognize. The amount of benefit to recognize will be measured as the maximum amount which is more likely than not to be realized. The tax position should be derecognized when it is no longer more likely than not of being sustained. On subsequent recognition and measurement the maximum amount which is more likely than not to be recognized at each reporting date will represent management’s best estimate, given the information available at the reporting date, even though the outcome of the tax position is not absolute or final. Subsequent recognition, derecognition, and measurement should be based on new information. A liability for interest or penalties or both will be recognized as deemed to be incurred based on the provisions of the tax law, that is, the period for which the taxing authority will begin assessing the interest or penalties or both. The amount of interest expense recognized will be based on the difference between the amount recognized in the financial statements and the benefit recognized in the tax return. On transition, the change in net assets due to applying the provisions of the final interpretation will be considered as a change in accounting principle with the cumulative effect of the change treated as an offsetting adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of transition. FIN 48 will be effective for the Company as of July 1, 2007. The Company is currently assessing the potential impact that the adoption of FIN 48 will have on its financial statements.

NOTE 3—INVESTMENTS

On October 2, 2006, the Company acquired all of the remaining issued and outstanding shares of Hummingbird. In view of this, the investment in the equity of Hummingbird was included as part of the cost of the acquisition of Hummingbird. For details relating to this acquisition see Note 15 “Acquisitions” in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

NOTE 4—CAPITAL ASSETS

 

     As of June 30, 2007
     Cost   

Accumulated

Depreciation

   Net

Furniture and fixtures

   $ 10,417    $ 8,137    $ 2,280

Office equipment

     8,642      7,579      1,063

Computer hardware

     72,997      64,252      8,745

Computer software

     22,232      17,368      4,864

Leasehold improvements

     13,135      8,962      4,173

Land and Buildings *

     23,497      1,008      22,489
                    
   $ 150,920    $ 107,306    $ 43,614
                    

 

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     As of June 30, 2006
     Cost    Accumulated
Depreciation
   Net

Furniture and fixtures

   $ 8,605    $ 6,360    $ 2,245

Office equipment

     8,281      6,992      1,289

Computer hardware

     66,714      54,995      11,719

Computer software

     17,023      11,737      5,286

Leasehold improvements

     12,374      8,064      4,310

Building

     16,726      313      16,413
                    
   $ 129,723    $ 88,461    $ 41,262
                    

* Included in this balance is an asset held for sale with a fair value of approximately $5.6 million as of June 30, 2007 (June 30, 2006—nil). This asset is being held for sale as a result of a decision taken by the Company’s management to sell a building acquired as part of the Hummingbird acquisition. The Company expects to sell the building by way of a commercial sale and, at this point, is unable to predict the timing of its disposal. The building is being held for sale within the Company’s North America reporting segment.

NOTE 5—GOODWILL

Goodwill is recorded when the consideration paid for an acquisition of a business exceeds the fair value of identifiable net tangible and intangible assets. The following table summarizes the changes in goodwill since June 30, 2005:

 

Balance, June 30, 2005

   $  243,091  

Adjustments relating to prior acquisitions

     (17,470 )

Adjustments on account of foreign exchange

     9,902  
        

Balance, June 30, 2006

     235,523  

Acquisition of Momentum

     3,340  

Acquisition of Hummingbird

     272,433  

Adjustments relating to prior acquisitions

     4,395  

Adjustments on account of foreign exchange

     12,621  
        

Balance, June 30, 2007

   $ 528,312  
        

Adjustments relating to prior acquisitions primarily relate to the adjustments to goodwill based upon the review and evaluation of the tax attributes of acquisition-related operating loss carry forwards and deductions originally assessed at the various dates of acquisition and increases to goodwill relating to IXOS and Gauss Interprise AG (“Gauss”) share purchases and step accounting adjustments.

 

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NOTE 6—ACQUIRED INTANGIBLE ASSETS

 

    

Technology

Assets

   

Customer

Assets

    Total  

Net book value, June 30, 2005

   $ 76,108     $ 51,873     $ 127,981  

Activity during fiscal 2006:

      

Amortization expense

     (18,900 )     (9,199 )     (28,099 )

Impairment of intangible assets

     (1,046 )     —         (1,046 )

Foreign exchange impact

     3,000       2,598       5,598  

Other

     (3,988 )     1,880       (2,108 )
                        

Net book value, June 30, 2006

     55,174       47,152       102,326  

Activity during fiscal 2007:

      

Acquisition of Hummingbird

     159,200       139,800       299,000  

Amortization expense

     (36,206 )     (24,586 )     (60,792 )

Impairment of intangible assets

     (697 )     —         (697 )

Foreign exchange impact

     2,228       2,047       4,275  

Other

     (483 )     (305 )     (788 )
                        

Net book value, June 30, 2007

   $ 179,216     $ 164,108     $ 343,324  
                        

The range of amortization periods for intangible assets is from 4-10 years.

The following table shows the estimated future amortization expense for each of the next five years, assuming no further adjustments to acquired intangible assets are made:

 

    

Fiscal

years ending

June 30,

2008

   $ 69,829

2009

     64,251

2010

     51,899

2011

     49,380

2012

     47,123
      

Total

   $ 282,482
      

The Company recorded an impairment charge of $697,000 relating to a write down of acquired technology assets in North America (June 30, 2006 – $1.0 million). Refer to Note 17 “Special Charges (Recoveries)” in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for details of this impairment.

NOTE 7—OTHER ASSETS

 

     As of June 30,
     2007    2006

Restricted cash

   $ 88    $ 218

Debt issuance costs

     7,199      —  

Deposits

     2,237      1,681

Loan receivable

     —        228

Long-term prepaid expenses

     —        199
             
   $ 9,524    $ 2,326
             

The restricted cash relates to cash on hand that has been restricted in accordance with facility lease agreements. Deposits relate to security deposits provided to landlords in accordance with facility lease

 

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agreements. Debt issuance costs relate primarily to costs incurred for the purpose of obtaining long-term debt used to partially finance the Hummingbird acquisition and are being amortized over the life of the long-term debt. For details relating to the long-term debt, see Note 10 “Long-term Debt and Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

NOTE 8—ALLOWANCE FOR DOUBTFUL ACCOUNTS

 

     Consolidated    

Hummingbird

(as of date of

acquisition)

   

Net of

Hummingbird

 

Balance of allowance for doubtful accounts (“AfDA”) as of June 30, 2004

   $ 3,628     $ —       $ 3,628  

Bad debt expense for the year

     1,814       —         1,814  

Write-off/adjustments

     (2,317 )     —         (2,317 )
                        

Balance of allowance for doubtful accounts as of June 30, 2005

     3,125       —         3,125  

Bad debt expense for the year

     1,485       —         1,485  

Write-off/adjustments

     (1,874 )     —         (1,874 )
                        

Balance of allowance for doubtful accounts as of June 30, 2006

     2,736       —         2,736  

Bad debt expense for the period

     2,379       —         2,379  

AfDA relating to Hummingbird accounts receivable at date of acquisition

     17,592       17,592       —    

Write-off /adjustments

     (15,072 )     (12,046 )     (3,026 )
                        

Balance of allowance for doubtful accounts as of June 30, 2007

   $ 7,635     $ 5,546     $ 2,089  
                        

The Company has disclosed the AfDA assumed as part of the acquisition of Hummingbird in its presentation of AfDA, as the Company believes that such presentation provides additional information about the on-going changes in the consolidated AfDA balance. This presentation has no impact on the net balance of accounts receivable included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets included in the consolidated financial statements.

Included in accounts receivable are unbilled receivables in the amount of $3.4 million and $4.3 million as of June 30, 2007 and June 30, 2006, respectively.

NOTE 9—ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED LIABILITIES

Current liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities are comprised of the following:

 

    

As of June 30,

2007

  

As of June 30,

2006

Accounts payable—trade

   $ 8,140    $ 6,077

Accrued salaries and commissions

     29,437      15,020

Accrued liabilities

     44,770      26,827

Amounts payable in respect of restructuring (note 17)

     2,636      6,148

Amounts payable in respect of acquisitions and acquisition related accruals

     15,228      8,463
             
   $ 100,211    $ 62,535
             

 

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Long-term accrued liabilities

 

    

As of June 30,

2007

  

As of June 30,

2006

Pension liabilities

   $ 322    $ 582

Amounts payable in respect of restructuring (note 17)

     1,382      1,851

Amounts payable in respect of acquisitions and acquisition related accruals

     15,025      14,224

Other accrued liabilities

     534      568

Asset retirement obligations

     5,253      3,896
             
   $ 22,516    $ 21,121
             

Pension liabilities

The Company acquired a controlling interest in IXOS in March 2004. IXOS has pension commitments to employees as well as to former members of its board of directors. The actuarial cost method used in determining the net periodic pension cost, with respect to the IXOS employees, is the projected unit credit method. The liabilities and annual income or expense of the Company’s pension plan are determined using methodologies that involve various actuarial assumptions, the most significant of which are the discount rate and the long-term rate of return on assets. The Company’s policy is to deposit amounts with an insurance company to cover the actuarial present value of the expected retirement benefits. The fair value of plan assets as of June 30, 2007 was $2.9 million (June 30, 2006 – $2.6 million). The fair value of the pension obligation as of June 30, 2007 was $2.9 million (June 30, 2006 – $3.0 million). In accordance with SFAS 158 the Company decreased pension liabilities by $260,000 and increased shareholders’ equity by the same amount. For details relating to this increase see Note 2 “Significant Accounting Policies” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Asset retirement obligations

The Company is required to return certain of its leased facilities to their original state at the conclusion of the lease. The Company has accounted for such obligations in accordance with FASB SFAS No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” (“SFAS 143”). At June 30, 2007, the present value of this obligation was $5.3 million, (June 30, 2006 – $3.9 million), with an undiscounted value of $7.5 million, (June 30, 2006 – $4.8 million). These leases were primarily assumed in connection with the IXOS and Hummingbird acquisitions.

Excess facility obligations and acquisition related accruals

The Company has accrued for the cost of excess facilities in connection with a number of its acquisitions, including its fiscal 2007 Hummingbird acquisition. These accruals include the Company’s best estimate in respect of future sub-lease income and costs incurred to achieve sub-tenancy. These liabilities have been recorded using present value discounting techniques and will be discharged over the term of the respective leases. The difference between the present value and actual cash paid for the excess facility will be charged to income over the terms of the leases ranging between one year to 17 years.

 

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The following table summarizes the activity with respect to the Company’s acquisition accruals during the year ended June 30, 2007.

 

    

Balance

June 30,

2006

  

Initial

Accruals

  

Usage/

Foreign

Exchange/

Other

Adjustments

   

Subsequent

Adjustments

to Goodwill

   

Balance

June 30,

2007

Hummingbird

            

Employee termination costs

   $ —      $ 23,619    $ (21,432 )   $ 5,658     $ 7,845

Excess facilities

     —        2,408      (1,556 )     1,856       2,708

Transaction-related costs

     —        7,429      (6,907 )     (522 )     —  
                                    
     —        33,456      (29,895 )     6,992       10,553

IXOS

            

Employee termination costs

     22      —        (22 )     —         —  

Excess facilities

     17,401      —        * 1,414       (251 )     18,564

Transaction-related costs

     616      —        (486 )     (130 )     —  
                                    
     18,039      —        906       (381 )     18,564

Gauss

            

Transaction-related costs

     34      —        (6 )     (28 )     —  
                                    
     34      —        (6 )     (28 )     —  

Eloquent

            

Transaction-related costs

     243      —        —         —         243
                                    
     243      —        —         —         243

Centrinity

            

Excess facilities

     3,329      —        (1,384 )     (1,107 )     838

Transaction-related costs

     221      —        (148 )     (73 )     —  
                                    
     3,550      —        (1,532 )     (1,180 )     838

Artesia

            

Excess facilities

     761      —        (400 )     (306 )     55

Transaction-related costs

     12      —        (12 )     —         —  
                                    
     773      —        (412 )     (306 )     55

Vista

            

Transaction-related costs

     6      —        —         (6 )     —  
                                    
     6      —        —         (6 )     —  

Optura

            

Excess facilities

     30      —        (30 )     —         —  

Transaction-related costs

     12      —        —         (12 )     —  
                                    
     42      —        (30 )     (12 )     —  
                                    

Totals

            

Employee termination costs

     22      23,619      (21,454 )     5,658       7,845

Excess facilities

     21,521      2,408      (1,956 )     192       22,165

Transaction-related costs

     1,144      7,429      (7,559 )     (771 )     243
                                    
   $ 22,687    $ 33,456    $ (30,969 )   $ 5,079     $ 30,253
                                    

* Included in this amount is $6.2 million relating to the increase in an acquisition-related accrual for excess facilities resulting from the revision of an estimate of sub-lease income. The increase in accruals was recorded by way of a charge to “Special charges” in the Consolidated Statements of Income. For details relating to this charge see Note 17 “Special Charges (Recoveries)” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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The following table summarizes the activity with respect to the Company’s acquisition accruals during the year ended June 30, 2006.

 

    

Balance

June 30,

2005

  

Initial

Accruals

  

Usage/
Foreign

Exchange/
Other

Adjustments

   

Subsequent

Adjustments

to Goodwill

   

Balance

June 30,

2006

IXOS

            

Employee termination costs

   $ 338    $  —      $ (252 )   $ (64 )   $ 22

Excess facilities

     17,274      —        337       (210 )     17,401

Transaction-related costs

     2,167      —        (2,571 )     1,020       616
                                    
     19,779      —        (2,486 )     746       18,039

Gauss

            

Excess facilities

     260      —        (189 )     (71 )     —  

Transaction-related costs

     298      —        (838 )     574       34
                                    
     558      —        (1,027 )     503       34

Eloquent

            

Transaction-related costs

     487      —        6       (250 )     243
                                    
     487      —        6       (250 )     243

Centrinity

            

Excess facilities

     3,928      —        274       (873 )     3,329

Transaction-related costs

     651      —        (234 )     (196 )     221
                                    
     4,579      —        40       (1,069 )     3,550

Open Image

            

Transaction-related costs

     135      —        3       (138 )     —  
                                    
     135      —        3       (138 )     —  

Artesia

            

Employee termination costs

     50      —        (48 )     (2 )     —  

Excess facilities

     821      —        (161 )     101       761

Transaction-related costs

     79      —        (46 )     (21 )     12
                                    
     950      —        (255 )     78       773

Vista

            

Transaction-related costs

     121      —        (13 )     (102 )     6
                                    
     121      —        (13 )     (102 )     6

Optura

            

Excess facilities

     172      —        (91 )     (51 )     30

Transaction-related costs

     240      —        (78 )     (150 )     12
                                    
     412      —        (169 )     (201 )     42
                                    

Totals

            

Employee termination costs

     388      —        (300 )     (66 )     22

Excess facilities

     22,455      —        170       (1,104 )     21,521

Transaction-related costs

     4,178      —        (3,771 )     737       1,144
                                    
   $ 27,021    $  —      $ (3,901 )   $ (433 )   $ 22,687
                                    

The adjustments to goodwill relating to employee termination costs and excess facilities are accounted for in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force 95-3, “Recognition of Liabilities in Connection With a Purchase Business Combination” (“EITF 95-3”). The adjustments to goodwill relating to transaction costs are accounted for in accordance with SFAS 141.

 

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NOTE 10—LONG-TERM DEBT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES

Long-term Debt

Long-term debt is comprised of the following:

 

    

As of June 30,

2007

  

As of June 30,

2006

Long-term debt

     

Term loan

   $ 357,151    $ —  

Mortgage

     13,662      13,368
             
     370,813      13,368
               

Less:

     

Current portion of long-term debt

     

Term loan

     3,599      —  

Mortgage

     449      405
             
     4,048      405
               
   $ 366,765    $ 12,963
 

Term loan and Revolver

On October 2, 2006, the Company entered into a $465.0 million credit agreement (the “credit agreement”) with a Canadian chartered bank (the “bank”) consisting of a $390.0 million term loan facility (the “term loan”) and a $75.0 million committed revolving long-term credit facility (the “revolver”). The term loan was used to partially finance the Hummingbird acquisition and the revolver will be used for general business purposes. The credit agreement is guaranteed by the Company and certain of its subsidiaries.

Term loan

The term loan has a seven year term and expires on October 2, 2013 and bears interest at a floating rate of LIBOR plus 2.50%. The term loan principal repayments are equal to 0.25% of the original principal amount, due each quarter with the remainder due at the end of the term, less ratable reductions for any prepayments made. In May 2007, the Company repaid $30.0 million of the principal, which had the effect of reducing the quarterly principal payment to approximately $900,000.

As of June 30, 2007, the carrying value of the term loan was $357.2 million.

Revolver

The revolver has a five year term and expires on October 2, 2011. Borrowings under this facility bear interest at rates specified in the credit agreement. The revolver replaced a CAD $40.0 million line of credit (the “old line of credit”) that the Company previously had with the bank. The Company was required to terminate the old line of credit prior to executing its current credit agreement. As of the date of termination, there were no borrowings outstanding on the CAD $40.0 million line of credit, nor were there any termination penalties. The revolver is subject to a “stand-by” fee ranging between 0.30% and 0.50% per annum depending on the consolidated leverage ratio of the Company. There are no borrowings outstanding under the revolver as of June 30, 2007.

Mortgage

The mortgage consists of a five year mortgage agreement entered into during December 2005 with the bank. The principal amount of the mortgage is CAD $15.0 million. The mortgage: (i) has a fixed term of five years,

 

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(ii) matures on January 1, 2011, and (iii) is secured by a lien on the Company’s headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. Interest is to be paid monthly at a fixed rate of 5.25% per annum. Principal and interest are payable in monthly installments of CAD $101,000 with a final lump sum principal payment of CAD $12.6 million due on maturity.

As of June 30, 2007, the carrying values of the building and mortgage were $16.9 million and $13.7 million, respectively.

Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities

In October 2006, Open Text entered into a three year interest-rate collar that had the economic effect of circumscribing the floating portion of the interest rate obligations associated with $195.0 million of the term loan within an upper limit of 5.34% and a lower limit of 4.79%. This was pursuant to a requirement in the credit agreement that required the Company to maintain, from thirty days following the date on which the term loan was entered into through the third anniversary or such earlier date on which the term loan is paid, interest rate hedging arrangements with counterparties in respect of 50% of the aggregate actual and projected principal amount of the term loan.

SFAS No. 133 “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities” (“SFAS 133”) requires that changes in a derivative instrument’s fair value be recognized in current earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met and that an entity must formally document, designate and assess the effectiveness of transactions that qualify for hedge accounting.

SFAS 133 requires that written options must meet certain criteria in order for hedge accounting to apply. The Company determined that these criteria were not met and hedge accounting could not be applied for the year ended June 30, 2007. The fair market value of the collar, which represents the cash the Company would receive or pay to settle the collar, was a receivable of approximately $380,000 as of June 30, 2007, and has been included within “Prepaid expenses and other current assets” on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. For the year ended June 30, 2007, interest expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income has been reduced by $380,000, representing the change in the fair value of the collar. The Company records payments or receipts on the collar as adjustments to interest expense. The collar has a remaining term to maturity of 2.5 years.

The Company will continue to monitor changes in interest rates periodically and will assess whether hedge accounting could potentially be applied in future periods.

NOTE 11—SHARE CAPITAL, OPTION PLANS AND SHARE BASED PAYMENTS

Share Capital

The authorized share capital of the Company includes an unlimited number of Common Shares and an unlimited number of first preference shares. No preference shares have been issued.

On May 19, 2006, the Company commenced a share repurchase program (hereinafter referred to as the “May 2006 Repurchase Program”) that provided for the repurchase of up to a maximum of 2,444,104 Common Shares. The May 2006 Repurchase Program was superseded by a new repurchase program initiated on May 2, 2007.

On May 2, 2007, the Company issued a press release announcing the filing of a Notice of Intention with the Ontario Securities Commission to make a normal course issuer bid to repurchase up to a maximum of 2,494,053 of Common Shares of the Company, which represents an amount up to but not exceeding 5% of the Company’s issued and outstanding Common Shares as of April 30, 2007. The repurchase of the Common Shares of the Company under the normal course issuer bid will take place through the facilities of the NASDAQ. The normal course issuer bid will terminate on May 6, 2008.

During the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 the Company did not repurchase any of its Common Shares.

 

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Option Plans

A summary of the Company’s various Stock Option Plans is set forth below. All numbers shown in the chart below have been adjusted to account for the two-for-one stock split that occurred on October 22, 2003.

 

    1995
“Restated”
Flexible Stock
Incentive Plan
   

1995
Supplementary
Stock

Option Plan (1)

    1995
Directors
Stock Option
Plan (1)
   

1998

Stock Option
Plan

    Centrinity
Stock
Option
Plan
    Gauss
Stock
Option
Plan
    IXOS
Stock
Option
Plan
    2004
Stock
Option
Plan
    Vista
Stock
Option
Plan
    Artesia
Stock
Option
Plan
    Hummingbird
Option
Plan
 

Date of inception

  Jun-95     Oct-95     Oct-95     Jun-98     Jan-03     Jan-04     Mar-04     Oct-04     Sep-04     Sep-04     Oct-06  

Eligibility

  Employees,

officers,


directors, and


consultants

 

 


 


 

  Former

employees


and


directors


of Odesta

 

 


 


 


 

  Eligible
non-

employee
directors


(1)

 
 

 
 


 

  Eligible

employees


and directors,


as determined


by the Board


of Directors

 

 


 


 


 


 

  Eligible

employees,


consultants


and directors,


as determined


by the Board


of Directors

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Eligible

employees as


determined by


the Board of


Directors

 

 


 


 


 

  Eligible

employees as


determined by


the Board of


Directors

 

 


 


 


 

  Eligible

employees, as


determined by


the Board of


Directors

 

 


 


 


 

  Former

employees, and


consultants of


Quest Software


Inc.

 

 


 


 


 

  Eligible

employees, and


consultants of


Artesia


Technologies


Inc.

 

 


 


 


 


 

  Eligible

employees, and


consultants of


Hummingbird


Inc.

 

 


 


 


 

Options granted to date

  12,778,750     715,000     1,048,000     7,842,290     414,968     51,000     210,000     2,000,500     43,500     20,000     355,675  

Options cancelled to date

  (3,899,787 )   (192,750 )   (286,000 )   (2,530,510 )   (13,500 )   (10,000 )   (143,000 )   (211,750 )   (17,000 )   (10,000 )   (293,190 )

Options exercised to date

  (8,849,563 )   (522,250 )   (599,500 )   (2,906,674 )   (231,732 )   —       —       (21,500 )   (3,250 )   —       —    
                                                                 

Options outstanding

  29,400     —       162,500     2,405,106     169,736     41,000     67,000     1,767,250     23,250     10,000     62,485  

Termination grace periods

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason

 

 


 


 


 

  1 year due

to death;


90 days
for


any other


reason

 

 


 
 


 


 

  Immediately
“for

cause”; 3
months for


any other
reason

 
 

 
 


 
 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due to


death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due to


death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due to


death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due


to death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due


to death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due


to death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due


to death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Immediately

“for cause”;


90 days for


any other


reason; 180


days due


to death

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

Vesting schedule

  Over a 4 or 5

year period;


options


exercisable


up to 10


years from


grant date

 

 


 


 


 


 


 

  Vest over

a 2 year


period;


options


exercisable


up to 10


years from


grant date

 

 


 


 


 


 


 


 

  Vest as of
the date of

the annual
meeting of


shareholders
following


the grant of


the options

 
 

 
 


 
 


 


 

  Determined

by the


Company. If


not specified


it is 25% per


year

 

 


 


 


 


 

  Over a 4 year

period, unless


otherwise


specified

 

 


 


 

  Over a 4 year

period, unless


otherwise


specified

 

 


 


 

  Over a 4 year

period, unless


otherwise


specified

 

 


 


 

  Determined by

the Company.


If not


specified it is


25% per


year

 

 


 


 


 


 

  Determined by

the Company.


If not


specified it is


25% per


year

 

 


 


 


 


 

  Determined

by the


Company. If


not specified


it is 25% per


year

 

 


 


 


 


 

  Determined

by the


Company. If


not specified


it is 25% per


year

 

 


 


 


 


 

Exercise price range (average)

  $4.88 –$5.94

($5.24)

 

 

  n/a     $7.41 – $7.41

($7.41)

 

 

  $6.09 – $24.77

($11.93)

 

 

  $12.09 – $13.50

($12.25)

 

 

  $26.24 – $26.24

($26.24)

 

 

  $26.24 – $26.24

($26.24)

 

 

  $14.02 – $23.36

($16.86)

 

 

  $17.99 – $17.99

($17.99)

 

 

  $17.99 –$17.99

($17.99)

 

 

  $18.36 –$27.75

($22.35)

 

 

Expiration dates

  12/15/2007 to
1/27/2008
 
 
  n/a     3/5/2008 to
3/5/2008
 
 
  10/1/2008 to

2/3/2016

 

 

  11/1/2012 to

1/28/2013

 

 

  1/27/2014 to

1/27/2014

 

 

  1/27/2014 to

1/27/2014

 

 

  12/9/2011 to

5/4/2014

 

 

  9/30/2010 to

9/3/2013

 

 

  9/30/2010 to

9/3/2013

 

 

  10/2/2013 to

10/2/2013

 

 


(1) Representing the Board of Directors of the Company or, if established and duly authorized to act, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

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A summary of option activity from June 30, 2004 is set forth below:

 

     Options Outstanding
     Number of
shares
    Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

Options outstanding as of June 30, 2004

   5,148,981     $ 10.77

Granted during Fiscal 2005

   965,500       16.67

Cancelled

   (240,919 )     14.81

Exercised

   (343,288 )     5.71
        

Options outstanding as of June 30, 2005

   5,530,274       11.93

Granted during Fiscal 2006

   629,500       15.40

Cancelled

   (355,322 )     18.81

Exercised

   (470,436 )     7.75
        

Options outstanding as of June 30, 2006

   5,334,016       12.25

Granted during Fiscal 2007

   1,172,675       19.38

Cancelled

   (562,358 )     17.62

Exercised

   (1,206,606 )     9.19
        

Options outstanding as of June 30, 2007

   4,737,727     $ 14.15
        

As of June 30, 2007, there were exercisable options outstanding to purchase 3,065,367 (June 30, 2006 – 3,782,649) Common Shares with a weighted average exercise price of $12.23 (June 30, 2006 – $10.69).

The following table summarizes information regarding stock options outstanding at June 30, 2007:

 

     Options Outstanding    Options Exercisable

Range of
Exercise
            Prices            

  

Number of options
Outstanding
as of June 30,

2007

   Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (years)
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Number of options
Exercisable
as of June 30,
2007
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

$  4.88 – $  6.72

   104,024    1.11    $ 6.26    104,024    $ 6.26

    6.88 –   10.75

   1,188,112    2.28      8.14    1,188,112      8.14

  11.09 –   13.50

   479,336    3.87      11.72    479,336      11.72

  14.02 –   14.10

   550,000    5.11      14.06    350,000      14.09

  14.56 –   15.66

   520,020    4.55      14.93    252,770      15.01

  15.71 –   17.01

   870,500    5.33      16.91    260,250      16.73

  17.04 –   19.85

   648,827    6.36      18.45    281,125      17.77

  20.00 –   27.75

   376,908    6.92      23.73    149,750      23.52
                            

$  4.88 – $27.75

   4,737,727    4.47    $ 14.15    3,065,367    $ 12.23
                            

Share-Based Payments

Summary of Outstanding Stock Options

As of June 30, 2007 options to purchase an aggregate of 4,737,727 Common Shares are outstanding under all of the Company’s stock option plans. In addition, 1,299,470 stock options are available for issuance under the 1998 Stock Option Plan and the 2004 Stock Option Plan. The Company’s stock options generally vest over four to five years and expire ten years from the date of the grant. The exercise price of the options the Company grants is set at an amount that is not less than the closing price of the Company’s Common Shares on the trading day for the NASDAQ immediately preceding the applicable grant date.

 

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A summary of option activity under the Company’s stock option plans for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 is as follows:

 

     Options    

Weighted-
Average Exercise

Price

  

Weighted-
Average
Remaining

Contractual Term

  

Aggregate Intrinsic Value

($’000s)

Outstanding at July 1, 2006

   5,334,016     $ 12.26      

Granted

   1,172,675       19.38      

Exercised

   (1,206,606 )     9.19      

Forfeited or expired

   (562,358 )     17.62      
              

Outstanding at June 30, 2007

   4,737,727     $ 14.15    4.47    $ 38,621
                        

Exercisable at June 30, 2007

   3,065,367     $ 12.23    3.66    $ 30,700
                        
     Number of
Options
    Weighted-
Average Exercise
Price
   Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual Term
   Aggregate Intrinsic Value
($’000s)

Outstanding at July 1, 2005

   5,530,274     $ 11.93      

Granted

   629,500       15.40      

Exercised

   (470,436 )     7.75      

Forfeited or expired

   (355,322 )     18.81      
              

Outstanding at June 30, 2006

   5,334,016     $ 12.26    4.70    $ 11,681
                        

Exercisable at June 30, 2006

   3,782,649     $ 10.69    3.91    $ 14,185
                        

The Company estimates the fair value of stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, consistent with the provisions of SFAS 123 (Revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (“SFAS 123R”) and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107. The Black-Scholes option-pricing model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of traded options that have no vesting restrictions and are fully transferable, while the options issued by the Company are subject to both vesting and restrictions on transfer. In addition, option-pricing models require input of subjective assumptions including the estimated life of the option and the expected volatility of the underlying stock over the estimated life of the option. The Company uses historical volatility as a basis for projecting the expected volatility of the underlying stock and estimates the expected life of its stock options based upon historical data.

The Company believes that the valuation technique and the approach utilized to develop the underlying assumptions are appropriate in calculating the fair value of the Company’s stock option grants. Estimates of fair value are not intended, however, to predict actual future events or the value ultimately realized by employees who receive equity awards.

For the year ended June 30, 2007, the weighted-average fair value of options granted, as of the grant date, was $7.22, using the following weighted average assumptions: expected volatility of 46%; risk-free interest rate of 4.7%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 4.8 years. A forfeiture rate of 5%, based on historical employee turnover rates, was used to determine the net amount of compensation expense recognized.

In connection with the acquisition of Hummingbird, the Company issued a net number of 98,578 stock options to the former employees of Hummingbird in replacement of their fully vested Hummingbird stock options (“replacement options”). These replacement options were valued using the following weighted average assumptions: expected volatility of 47%; risk-free interest rate of 4.3%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 4.5 years, resulting in an approximate fair value of $7.30 per replacement option. Approximately $286,000 has been allocated to the cost of the Hummingbird acquisition, and the remainder will be amortized to share-based compensation cost over a vesting period of 4 years.

 

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For the year ended June 30, 2006, the weighted-average fair value of options granted, as of the grant date, was $7.68, using the following weighted average assumptions: expected volatility of 52%; risk-free interest rate of 4.6%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 5.2 years. A forfeiture rate of 5%, based on historical employee turnover rates, was used to determine the net amount of compensation expense recognized.

For the year ended June 30, 2005, the weighted-average fair value of options granted, as of the grant date, during the periods was $8.35, using the following weighted-average assumptions: expected volatility of 61%; risk-free interest rate of 3.2%; expected dividend yield of 0%; and expected life of 4.3 years.

In each of the above periods, no cash was used by the Company to settle equity instruments granted under share-based compensation arrangements.

The fair value of awards granted prior to July 1, 2005 is not adjusted to be consistent with the provision of SFAS 123R from the amounts previously disclosed, on a pro forma basis, in the audited Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Company’s Form 10-Ks or in the notes to the unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in the Company’s Form 10-Qs, except that the unvested portion at the date of adoption is adjusted to reflect the Company’s estimate of forfeitures. As of June 30, 2007, the total compensation cost related to unvested stock awards not yet recognized in the consolidated statement of income was $11.5 million, which will be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2 years. As of June 30, 2006, the total compensation cost related to unvested stock awards not yet recognized in the consolidated statement of income was $9.2 million, which will be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2 years.

Share-based compensation cost included in the Consolidated Statement of Income for the year ended June 30, 2007 was $5.4 million. Deferred tax assets of $875,000 were recorded, as of June 30, 2007 in relation to the tax effect of certain stock options that are eligible for a tax deduction when exercised. The Company has not capitalized any share-based compensation costs as part of the cost of an asset.

Share-based compensation cost included in the Consolidated Statement of Income for the year ended June 30, 2006 was approximately $5.2 million. Deferred tax assets of $622,000 were recorded, as of June 30, 2006 in relation to the tax effect of certain stock options that are eligible for a tax deduction when exercised. The Company has not capitalized any share-based compensation costs as part of the cost of an asset.

For the year ended June 30, 2007, cash in the amount of $11.1 million was received as the result of the exercise of options granted under share-based payment arrangements. The tax benefit realized by the Company, during the year ended June 30, 2007 from the exercise of options eligible for a tax deduction was $1.3 million, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital.

For the year ended June 30, 2006, cash in the amount of $3.7 million was received as the result of the exercise of options granted under share-based payment arrangements. The tax benefit realized by the Company, during the year ended June 30, 2006 from the exercise of options eligible for a tax deduction was $865,000, which was recorded as additional paid-in capital.

Employee Share Purchase Plan (“ESPP”)

During the year ended June 30, 2007, 38,470 Common Shares were issued under the ESPP for cash collected from employees totaling $621,000. In addition, cash in the amount of $129,000 was received from employees that will be used to purchase Common Shares in future periods.

During the year ended June 30, 2006, 281,093 Common Shares were issued under the ESPP for cash collected from employees totaling $3.4 million. In addition, cash in the amount of $660,000 was received from employees that was used to purchase Common Shares in future periods.

 

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During the year ended June 30, 2005, 260,000 Common Shares were issued under the ESPP for cash collected from employees totaling $4.4 million.

NOTE 12—SEGMENT INFORMATION

SFAS No. 131, “Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information” establishes standards for the reporting, by public business enterprises, of information about operating segments, products and services, geographic areas, and major customers. The method of determining what information to report is based on the way that management organizes the operating segments within the Company for making operational decisions and assessments of financial performance.

The Company’s operations fall into one dominant industry segment, being enterprise content management software. The Company manages its operations, and accordingly determines its operating segments, on a geographic basis. The Company has two reportable segments: North America and Europe. The Company evaluates operating segment performance based on revenues and direct operating expenses of the segment, based on the location of the respective customers. The accounting policies of the operating segments are the same as those described in the summary of accounting policies. No segments have been aggregated.

Included in the following operating results are allocations of certain operating costs that are incurred in one reporting segment but which relate to all reporting segments. The allocations of these common operating costs are consistent with the manner in which they are allocated for the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) of the Company’s analysis. For the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006 and 2005, the “Other” category consists of geographic regions other than North America and Europe. Revenues from transactions that both emanate and conclude within operating segments are not considered for the purpose of this disclosure since such transactions are not reviewed by the CODM.

Goodwill and other acquired intangible assets have been assigned to segment assets based on the relative benefit that the reporting units are expected to receive from the assets, or the location of the acquired business operations to which they relate.

During the three months ended December 31, 2006, the Company changed the manner in which it measures segment income (loss) from “adjusted operating margin” to “contribution margin” since it believes that, in the aftermath of its Hummingbird acquisition, contribution margin is more reflective of the operating performance of the reportable segments. There is no impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements as a result of this change.

Contribution margin does not include amortization of intangible assets, depreciation, provision for (recovery of) special charges, other income (expense), interest income (expense), minority interest, and the provision for (recovery of) income taxes.

 

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Information about reportable segments is as follows:

 

     North America    Europe    Other    Total

Year ended June 30, 2007

           

Revenue from external customers

   $ 279,185    $ 286,981    $ 29,498    $ 595,664

Operating costs

     212,052      218,293      26,847      457,192
                           

Contribution margin

   $ 67,133    $ 68,688    $ 2,651    $ 138,472
                           

Year ended June 30, 2006

           

Revenue from external customers

   $ 197,852    $ 189,260    $ 22,450    $ 409,562

Operating costs

     145,415      165,457      20,355      331,227
                           

Contribution margin

   $ 52,437    $ 23,803    $ 2,095    $ 78,335
                           

Year ended June 30, 2005

           

Revenue from external customers

   $ 173,767    $ 215,401    $ 25,660    $ 414,828

Operating costs

     146,477      184,354      20,964      351,795
                           

Contribution margin

   $ 27,290    $ 31,047    $ 4,696    $ 63,033
                           

A reconciliation of the totals reported for the operating segments to the applicable line items in the Financial Statements for the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006 and 2005 is as follows:

 

     Year ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2005  

Total contribution margin from operating segments above

   $ 138,472     $ 78,335     $ 63,033  

Amortization and depreciation

     74,638       39,202       35,449  

Special charges (recoveries)

     12,908       26,182       (1,724 )
                        

Total operating income

     50,926       12,951       29,308  

Interest, other income, taxes and minority interest

     (29,266 )     (7,973 )     (8,949 )
                        

Net income

   $ 21,660     $ 4,978     $ 20,359  
                        

 

     As of June 30,
2007
   As of June 30,
2006

Segment assets:

     

North America

   $ 751,904    $ 284,544

Europe

     517,865      333,890

Other

     57,076      38,576
             

Total segment assets

   $ 1,326,845    $ 657,010
             

A reconciliation of the totals reported for the operating segments to the applicable line items in the Financial Statements as of June 30, 2007 and June 30, 2006 is as follows:

 

    

As of June 30,

2007

  

As of June 30,

2006

Segment assets

   $ 1,326,845    $ 657,010

Investments in marketable securities

     —        21,025
             

Total assets

   $ 1,326,845    $ 678,035
             

 

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The following table sets forth the distribution of revenues determined by location of customer and identifiable assets, by significant geographic area for the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006 and 2005:

 

     Year Ended June 30,
     2007    2006    2005

Total revenues:

        

Canada

   $ 41,630    $ 31,111    $ 20,279

United States

     237,555      166,741      153,488

United Kingdom

     70,475      37,528      50,103

Germany

     95,661      71,494      79,086

Rest of Europe

     120,845      80,238      86,212

Other

     29,498      22,450      25,660
                    

Total revenues

   $ 595,664    $ 409,562    $ 414,828
                    

 

    

As of June 30,

2007

  

As of June 30,

2006

Segment assets:

     

Canada

   $ 214,381    $ 104,592

United States

     537,523      179,952

United Kingdom

     102,503      53,501

Germany

     199,312      178,966

Rest of Europe

     216,050      101,423

Other

     57,076      38,576
             

Total segment assets

   $ 1,326,845    $ 657,010
             

The Company’s goodwill has been allocated as follows to the Company’s operating segments:

 

    

As of June 30,

2007

  

As of June 30,

2006

North America

   $ 350,358    $ 89,499

Europe

     147,557      124,827

Other

     30,397      21,197
             
   $ 528,312    $ 235,523
             

NOTE 13—COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

The Company has entered into the following contractual obligations with minimum annual payments for the indicated fiscal periods as follows:

 

     Payments due by Fiscal year ended June 30,
     Total    2008    2009 to 2010    2011 to 2012    2013 and beyond

Long-term debt obligations

   $ 544,250    $ 32,862    $ 64,876    $ 74,059    $ 372,453

Operating lease obligations *

     94,929      24,920      43,019      16,092      10,898

Purchase obligations

     5,529      2,660      2,642      227      —  
                                  
   $ 644,708    $ 60,442    $ 110,537    $ 90,378    $ 383,351
                                  

* Net of $6.2 million of non-cancelable sub-lease income to be received by the Company from properties which the Company has sub-leased to other parties.

 

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Rental expense of $13.5 million, $11.3 million and $15.5 million was recorded during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2007, 2006 and 2005, respectively.

The long-term debt obligations are comprised of interest and principal payments on the Company’s $390.0 million term loan agreement and a five year mortgage on the Company’s headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. For the purpose of calculating the interest on the $390.0 million term loan, LIBOR has been assumed at 5.36%, which is the three-month LIBOR rate as of June 29, 2007. For details relating to the term loan and the mortgage see Note 10 “Long-term Debt and Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The Company does not enter into off-balance sheet financing arrangements as a matter of practice except for the use of operating leases for office space, computer equipment and vehicles. In accordance with U.S. GAAP, neither the lease liability nor the underlying asset is carried on the balance sheet, as the terms of the leases do not meet the criteria for capitalization.

Domination agreements

IXOS domination agreements

On December 1, 2004, the Company announced that it had entered into a domination and profit transfer agreement (the “IXOS DA”) with IXOS. The IXOS DA came into force in August 2005 when it was registered in the commercial register at the local court in Munich. Under the terms of the IXOS DA, Open Text acquired authority to issue directives to the management of IXOS. Also within the terms of the IXOS DA, Open Text offered to purchase the remaining Common Shares of IXOS for a cash purchase price of Euro 9.38 per share (“Purchase Price”) which was the weighted average fair value of the IXOS Common Shares as of December 1, 2004. Additionally, Open Text has guaranteed a payment by IXOS to the minority shareholders of IXOS of an annual compensation of Euro 0.42 per share (“Annual Compensation”).

The IXOS DA was registered on August 23, 2005. In the quarter ended September 30, 2005, the Company commenced accruing the amount payable to minority shareholders of IXOS on account of Annual Compensation. This amount has been accounted for as a “guaranteed dividend”, payable to the minority shareholders, and is recorded as a charge to minority interest in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

Based on the number of minority IXOS shareholders as of June 30, 2007, the estimated amount of Annual Compensation is approximately $492,000 for the year ended June 30, 2007. Additionally, an amount of approximately $397,000 was paid, against previously accrued amounts, to the IXOS minority shareholders on account of Annual Compensation for the year ended June 30, 2006. Because the Company is unable to predict, with reasonable accuracy, the number of IXOS minority shareholders in future periods, the Company is unable to predict the amount of Annual Compensation that will be payable in future years.

Certain IXOS shareholders have filed for a procedure granted under German law at the district court of Munich, Germany, asking the court to review the proposed amount of the Annual Compensation and the Purchase Price (the “IXOS Appraisal Procedures”) for the amounts offered under the IXOS DA. It cannot be predicted at this stage, whether the court will increase the Annual Compensation and/or the Purchase Price in the IXOS Appraisal Procedures. The purchase offer made under the IXOS DA will expire at the end of the IXOS Appraisal Procedures.

These disputes are a normal and probable part of the process of acquiring minority shares in Germany. The costs associated with the above mentioned shareholder objections to the proposed fair value of the Annual Compensation and the Purchase Price are direct incremental costs associated with the ongoing step acquisitions of shares held by the minority shareholders and have been deferred within Goodwill pending the outcome of the objections. The Company is unable to predict the future costs associated with these activities that will be payable in future periods.

 

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Gauss domination agreements

On October 27, 2006, the “Squeeze Out” agreement with the Gauss minority shareholders was registered in the Commercial Register in the Local Court of Hamburg. Certain shareholders have filed a special procedure in the German courts to reassess the value of the purchase price and annual compensation. The procedure is still pending and the Company is not able to determine the likely date by which such procedure will be completed.

As of December 31, 2006, the Company acquired the remaining minority interest in Gauss for approximately $856,000. The Company now owns 100% of all issued and outstanding common shares of Gauss.

Guarantees and indemnifications

The Company has entered into license agreements with customers that include limited intellectual property indemnification clauses. Generally, the Company agrees to indemnify its customers against legal claims that the Company’s software products infringe certain third party intellectual property rights. In the event of such a claim, the Company is generally obligated to defend its customers against the claim and either settle the claim at the Company’s expense or pay damages that its customers are legally required to pay to the third-party claimant. These intellectual property infringement indemnification clauses generally are subject to limits based upon the amount of the license sale. Additionally, the Company’s current end-user license agreement contains a limited software warranty. The Company has not made any indemnification payments in relation to these indemnification clauses.

In connection with certain facility leases, the Company has guaranteed payments on behalf of its subsidiaries either by providing a security deposit with the landlord or through unsecured bank guarantees obtained from local banks.

The Company has not recorded a liability for guarantees, indemnities or warranties described above in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets since the maximum amount of potential future payments under such guarantees, indemnities and warranties is not determinable.

Litigation

The Company is subject from time to time to legal proceedings and claims, either asserted or unasserted, that arise in the ordinary course of business. While the outcome of these proceedings and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, the Company’s management does not believe that the outcome of any of these legal matters will have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

NOTE 14—SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES

 

     Year Ended June 30,
     2007    2006    2005

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

        

Cash paid during the year for interest

   $ 23,480    $ 397    $ 248

Cash received during the year for interest

     3,512      1,884      1,625

Cash paid during the year for income taxes

     25,450      2,953      6,658

During the year ended June 30, 2007, the Company acquired capital assets in the amount of $ 319,000 which were not paid for at the end of the fiscal year (June 30, 2006 – $1.9 million, June 30, 2005 – $3.8 million).

 

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NOTE 15—ACQUISITIONS

Fiscal 2007

Momentum

In March 2007, Open Text acquired all issued and outstanding shares of Momentum, a privately held company that specializes in providing ECM solutions to U.S. government agencies. Open Text expects that the acquisition of Momentum will enhance its ability to provide services to the U.S. government market. In accordance with SFAS 141, this acquisition is accounted for as a business combination.

Established in 1993 and based in Arlington, Virginia, Momentum has been serving the government sector for more than 12 years by providing technical expertise to automate business processes. Momentum has experience using Open Text’s Livelink ECM software to develop integrated systems for its clients.

The results of operations of Momentum have been consolidated with those of Open Text beginning March 2, 2007.

Consideration for this acquisition consisted of $4.7 million in cash, of which $4.4 million was paid at closing, and $300,000 was paid into escrow for a period of one year, as provided for in the share purchase agreement. The Company additionally incurred approximately $368,000 in costs directly related to this acquisition. In addition, the Company paid an amount of $600,000 into escrow on account of a payment due to the former owner of Momentum in connection with his employment with the Company for a period of one year ending on March 1, 2008. This amount has been included as part of “Prepaid expenses and other current assets” in the consolidated financial statements and is being charged to operations over the 12 months commencing March 2, 2007.

Preliminary Purchase Price Allocation

Under business combination accounting the total purchase price was allocated to Momentum’s net assets, based on their estimated fair values as of March 2, 2007, as set forth below. The excess of the purchase price over the net assets was recorded as goodwill. The allocation of the purchase price was based on a preliminary valuation, conducted by the Company’s management, and its estimates and assumptions are subject to change upon finalization, which is expected to occur prior to March 1, 2008.

The preliminary purchase price allocation set forth below represents management’s best estimate of the allocation of the purchase price and the fair value of net assets acquired.

 

Current assets (net of cash acquired of $620)

   $ 1,454  

Long-term assets

     157  

Goodwill *

     3,340  
        

Total assets acquired

     4,951  

Liabilities assumed

     (506 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 4,445  
        

* Includes the fair value of intangible assets acquired as part of this acquisition. The Company is currently in the process of determining the fair value of such intangible assets and upon the final determination of such fair value the Company will allocate a portion of the purchase price to acquired intangible assets, resulting in a corresponding reduction to recorded goodwill.

The portion of the purchase price allocated to goodwill has been assigned to the Company’s North America segment and is deductible for tax purposes.

 

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Hummingbird

In October 2006, Open Text acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Hummingbird, an enterprise software solutions company that specializes in the development of decision enabling web-based environments. Open Text expects that the combination of the two companies will strengthen its ability to offer an expanded portfolio of solutions aimed at a wide range of vertical markets. In accordance with SFAS 141, this acquisition is accounted for as a business combination.

Hummingbird’s software offerings fall into two principal product families: (i) Hummingbird Enterprise, and (ii) Hummingbird Connectivity. Hummingbird Enterprise is an integrated ECM suite comprised of solutions for a) document and content management, b) records management, c) knowledge management, d) collaboration, e) data integration, and f) business intelligence. Hummingbird Connectivity includes software applications for accessing “mission critical” back office applications and legacy data.

The results of operations of Hummingbird have been consolidated with those of Open Text beginning October 2, 2006.

Consideration for this acquisition, net of cash acquired, consisted of $412.5 million in cash including approximately $21.0 million associated with the open market purchases of Hummingbird shares acquired in June 2006 and $6.9 million of direct acquisition related costs.

Purchase Price Allocation

Under business combination accounting the total purchase price was allocated to Hummingbird’s net tangible and identifiable intangible assets, based on their estimated fair values as of October 2, 2006, as set forth below. The excess of the purchase price over the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets was recorded as goodwill. The allocation of the purchase price is based on a preliminary valuation, conducted by the Company’s management, and its estimates and assumptions are subject to change upon finalization, which is expected to occur in the first quarter of fiscal 2008.

The preliminary purchase price allocation set forth below represents management’s best estimate of the allocation of the purchase price and the fair value of net assets acquired.

 

Current assets (net of cash acquired of $88,287)

   $ 69,704  

Long-term assets

     12,977  

Customer assets

     139,800  

Technology assets

     159,200  

Goodwill

     272,433  
        

Total assets acquired

     654,114  

Deferred tax liabilities

     (92,816 )

Liabilities assumed

     (148,807 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 412,491  
        

The useful lives of both the customer and technology assets have been estimated to be seven years each.

The portion of the purchase price allocated to goodwill was assigned in the ratio of 94%, 4% and 2% to the Company’s North America, Europe and Other segments, respectively. No amount of the goodwill is expected to be deductible for tax purposes.

As part of the purchase price allocation, the Company recognized liabilities in connection with this acquisition of approximately $40.4 million relating primarily to employee termination charges, costs relating to abandonment of excess Hummingbird facilities and accruals for direct acquisition related costs. This was the

 

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result of management approved and initiated plans to restructure the operations of Hummingbird, commencing at the time of acquisition, to eliminate duplicative activities and to reduce costs. The Company will continue to evaluate and identify any material duplicative Hummingbird activities and areas where costs may be reduced during the remainder of the purchase price allocation period and include these in the determination of the fair value of this acquisition. The liability relating to abandonment of excess facilities is expected to be paid over the terms of the various leases, the last of which expires in March 2011. The liabilities related to employee termination costs are expected to be substantially paid on or before the quarter ended December 31, 2007. For further details relating to the type and amounts of these liabilities see Note 9 “Accounts payable and accrued liabilities” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Unaudited Proforma Results

The unaudited proforma information relating to Hummingbird included hereunder does not include the financial impacts of the restructuring initiatives relating to former Hummingbird activities as these have been capitalized as part of the preliminary purchase allocation but includes the amortization charges from acquired intangible assets and adjustments to interest expense on account of long-debt obtained to partially finance this acquisition. See Note 10 “Long-term Debt and Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Non-recurring charges of $14.9 million and $4.8 million for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 respectively are included in these unaudited proforma information. These charges relate primarily to one-time business combination and compensation costs incurred by Hummingbird prior to its acquisition by Open Text. The unaudited proforma information is presented for informational purposes only and is not indicative of the results of operations that would have been achieved if the acquisition of Hummingbird had taken place at the beginning of each of the periods presented.

 

(in thousands, except per share data)

   Year ended
June 30, 2007
    Year ended
June 30, 2006
 
   (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  

Total revenues

   $ 654,964     $ 668,048  

Net loss

   $ (23,721 )   $ (18,953 )

Basic net loss per share

   $ (0.48 )   $ (0.39 )

Diluted net loss per share

   $ (0.48 )   $ (0.39 )

IXOS

As of June 30, 2007, the Company owned 96.02% (June 30, 2006 – 95.52%) of the outstanding shares of IXOS. The Company increased its ownership of the shares of IXOS by way of open market purchases during the year ended June 30, 2007. Total consideration paid for the purchase of shares of IXOS during the year ended June 30, 2007 was approximately $1.4 million. The minority interest in IXOS has been adjusted to reflect the proportionate reduction in minority interest ownership in IXOS as a result of such open market purchases.

GAUSS

As of June 30, 2007, the Company owned 100.0% (June 30, 2006 – 95.0%) of the outstanding shares of Gauss. The Company increased its ownership of the shares of Gauss during the year ended June 30, 2007 by way of a judicial settlement reached with the minority shareholders of Gauss. For details of this settlement see Note 13 “Commitments and Contingencies” to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Fiscal 2005

Optura

On February 11, 2005, Open Text entered into an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Optura Inc. (“Optura”). In accordance with SFAS 141 this acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination. Optura offers products and integration services that optimize business processes so that

 

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companies can collaborate across separate organizational functions, dissimilar systems and business partners. Optura products and services will enable Open Text customers, who use a SAP-based Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) system, to improve the efficiencies of their document-based ERP processes. The results of operations of Optura have been consolidated with those of Open Text beginning February 12, 2005.

Consideration for this acquisition consisted of $3.7 million in cash, of which $2.7 million was paid at closing and $1.0 million was paid into escrow, as provided for in the share purchase agreement. During Fiscal 2006, $864,000 was paid in cash, with the remainder paid in Fiscal 2007.

The purchase price allocation set forth below represents management’s best estimate of the allocation of the purchase price and the fair value of net assets acquired.

 

Current assets, including cash acquired of $315

   $ 1,537  

Long-term assets

     114  

Customer assets

     700  

Technology assets

     1,300  

Goodwill

     2,104  
        

Total assets acquired

     5,755  

Total liabilities assumed

     (2,093 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 3,662  
        

The customer assets of $700,000 have been assigned a useful life of five years. The technology assets of $1.3 million have been assigned a useful life of five years.

The portion of the purchase price allocated to goodwill was assigned to the Company’s North America reportable segment. No amount of the goodwill is expected to be deductible for tax purposes.

As part of the purchase price allocation, the Company originally recognized liabilities in connection with this acquisition of $444,000. The liabilities related to severance charges, transaction costs, and costs relating to excess facilities. The purchase price was subsequently adjusted to reduce , on a net basis, acquisition related liabilities by $130,000 due to the refinement of management’s original estimates. All liabilities related to transaction-related charges and excess facilities have been fully paid as of June 30, 2007.

Artesia

On August 19, 2004, Open Text entered into an agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Artesia Technologies, Inc. (“Artesia”). In accordance with SFAS 141 this acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination. Artesia designs and distributes Digital Asset Management software. It has a customer base of over 120 companies and provides these customers and their marketing and distribution partners the ability to easily access and collaborate around a centrally managed collection of digital media elements. The results of operations of Artesia have been consolidated with those of Open Text beginning September 1, 2004.

This acquisition expands Open Text’s media integration and management capabilities as part of its Enterprise Content Management (“ECM”) suite, and provides a platform from which Open Text can address the content management needs of media and marketing professionals worldwide.

Consideration for this acquisition consisted of $5.2 million in cash, of which $3.2 million was paid at closing and $2.0 million was paid into escrow, and released during Fiscal 2006.

 

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The purchase price allocation set forth below represents management’s best estimate of the allocation of the purchase price and the fair value of net assets acquired.

 

Current assets, including cash acquired of $773

   $ 2,165  

Long-term assets

     3,936  

Customer assets

     1,646  

Technology assets

     3,204  

Goodwill

     —    
        

Total assets acquired

     10,951  

Total liabilities assumed

     (5,703 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 5,248  
        

The customer assets of $1.6 million have been assigned a useful life of five years. The technology assets of $3.2 million have been assigned useful lives of three to five years.

As part of the purchase price allocation, the Company originally recognized liabilities in connection with this acquisition of $1.7 million. The liabilities related to severance charges, transaction costs, and costs relating to facilities. The purchase price was subsequently adjusted to reduce, on a net basis, acquisition-related liabilities by $547,000 due to the refinement of management’s estimates. Liabilities related to severance charges and transaction costs were fully paid as of June 30, 2006 and June 30, 2007, respectively. Liabilities related to excess facilities will be paid over the term of the lease which expires in May 2010.

Vista

On August 31, 2004, Open Text entered into an agreement to acquire the Vista Plus (“Vista”) suite of products and related assets from Quest Software Inc. (“Quest”). In accordance with SFAS 141 this acquisition has been accounted for as a business combination. As part of this transaction certain Quest employees that developed, sold and supported Vista have been employed by Open Text. The revenues and costs related to the Vista product suite have been consolidated with those of Open Text beginning September 16, 2004.

Vista is a technology that captures and stores business critical information from ERP applications. This acquisition expands Open Text’s integration and report management capabilities as part of its ECM suite, and provides a platform from which Open Text can address report content found in ERP applications, and business intelligence software.

Consideration for this acquisition consisted of $23.7 million in cash, of which $21.7 million was paid at closing and $2.0 million was held in escrow and released on November 30, 2005, as provided for in the purchase agreement.

The purchase price allocation set forth below represents management’s best estimate of the allocation of the purchase price and the fair value of net assets acquired.

 

Current assets

   $ 264  

Long-term assets

     63  

Customer assets

     10,900  

Technology assets

     8,430  

Goodwill

     9,555  
        

Total assets acquired

     29,212  

Total liabilities assumed

     (5,522 )
        

Net assets acquired

   $ 23,690  
        

 

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The customer assets of $10.9 million and the technology assets of $8.4 million have been assigned useful lives of five years.

The portion of the purchase price allocated to goodwill was assigned to the Company’s North America reportable segment. The goodwill is expected to be deductible for tax purposes.

As part of the purchase price allocation, the Company originally recognized transaction costs in connection with this acquisition of $480,000. The purchase price was subsequently adjusted to reduce acquisition-related liabilities by $108,000 due to the refinement of management’s estimates. These costs have been full paid as of June 30, 2007.

NOTE 16—INCOME TAXES

The Company operates in several tax jurisdictions. Its income is subject to varying rates of tax and losses incurred in one jurisdiction cannot be used to offset income taxes payable in another.

The income before income taxes consisted of the following:

 

     Year Ended June 30,
     2007    2006     2005

Domestic income

   $ 8,550    $ 15,206     $ 20,255

Foreign income (loss)

     23,836      (5,556 )     7,314
                     

Income before income taxes

   $ 32,386    $ 9,650     $ 27,569
                     

A reconciliation of the combined Canadian federal and provincial income tax rate with the Company’s effective income tax rate is as follows:

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2005  

Expected statutory rate

     36.12 %     36.12 %     36.10 %

Expected provision for income taxes

   $ 11,698     $ 3,486     $ 9,952  

Effect of permanent differences

     7,890       2,314       534  

Effect of foreign tax rate differences

     (2,297 )     (569 )     (3,456 )

Benefit of losses

     (1,121 )     (3,018 )     (3,977 )

Change in valuation allowance

     (3,650 )     4,892       5,132  

Difference in tax filings from provision

     (1,462 )     (2,792 )     (2,522 )

Other items

     (724 )     (220 )     1,295  
                        
   $ 10,334     $ 4,093     $ 6,958  
                        

The subsequent recognition of a benefit related to the realization of tax loss carry forwards or deductible temporary differences acquired in a business combination where a valuation allowance had been established for these assets at the date of acquisition are applied to reduce goodwill and are not included in income. During Fiscal 2007, the recognition of $4.8 million (June 30, 2006 – $19.3 million) in pre-acquisition tax benefits of acquired companies was recorded as an adjustment (reduction) to goodwill.

As at June 30, 2007, a valuation allowance of $135.8 million (June 30, 2006 – $94.3 million) has been recorded on acquired deferred tax assets in business combinations where the Company had concluded that it is more likely than not that all or a portion of the acquired tax benefits would not be realized in the future. Subsequent recognition of these tax benefits will be applied as a reduction in goodwill.

 

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The provision for income taxes consisted of the following:

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2007     2006     2005  

Domestic:

      

Current income taxes

   $ —       $ —       $ —    

Deferred income taxes

     3,410       2,730       2,173  
                        
     3,410       2,730       2,173  
                        

Foreign:

      

Current income taxes

     29,431       8,407       8,126  

Deferred income taxes

     (22,507 )     (7,044 )     (3,341 )
                        
     6,924       1,363       4,785  
                        

Provision for income taxes

   $ 10,334     $ 4,093     $ 6,958  
                        

The Company has approximately $9.7 million of domestic non-capital loss carryforwards which expire between 2010 and 2027 and $10.0 million of domestic capital loss carryforwards that have no expiry date. In addition, the Company has $402.9 million of foreign non-capital loss carry forwards of which $304.8 million have no expiry date. $28.4 million of these are U.S. losses that are restricted and can only be used against the profits of a previously acquired company in accordance with a statutory formula. The remainder of the foreign losses expire between 2008 and 2025. In addition, investment tax credits of $9.6 million will expire between 2014 and 2017.

The primary temporary differences which gave rise to net deferred tax assets at June 30, 2007 and 2006 are:

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2007     2006  

Deferred tax assets

    

Non-capital loss carryforwards

   $ 160,512     $ 140,740  

Capital loss carryforwards

     1,804       2,204  

Undeducted scientific research and development expenses

     19,166       9,033  

Depreciation and amortization

     13,664       8,826  

Restructuring costs and other reserves

     33,114       23,764  

Other

     12,143       8,832  
                

Total deferred tax asset

     240,403       193,399  

Valuation allowance

     (168,077 )     (127,490 )
                

Net deferred tax asset

     72,326       65,909  
                

Deferred tax liabilities

    

Scientific research and development tax credits

     1,893       1,359  

Deferred credits

     1,601       4,151  

Acquired intangibles

     114,454       23,009  

Other

     3,672       3,154  
                

Deferred tax liabilities

     121,620       31,673  
                
   $ (49,294 )   $ 34,236  
                

Comprised of:

    

Current assets

   $ 30,248     $ 28,724  

Long-term assets

     42,078       37,185  

Current liabilities

     (1,601 )     (12,183 )

Long-term liabilities

     (120,019 )     (19,490 )
                
   $ (49,294 )   $ 34,236  
                

 

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The Company believes that sufficient uncertainty exists regarding the realization of certain deferred tax assets that a valuation allowance is required. The Company continues to evaluate its taxable position quarterly and considers factors by taxing jurisdiction, such as estimated taxable income, the history of losses for tax purposes and the growth of the Company, among others.

NOTE 17—SPECIAL CHARGES (RECOVERIES)

Fiscal 2007 Restructuring Plan

In December 2006, the Board approved, and the Company commenced implementing, restructuring activities to streamline its operations and consolidate its excess facilities (“Fiscal 2007 restructuring plan”). Total costs to be incurred in conjunction with the plan are expected to be approximately $7.0 million, of which $6.4 million has been recorded within Special charges for the year ended June 30, 2007. The charge consisted primarily of costs associated with workforce reduction and abandonment of excess facilities, and are expected to be paid by December 31, 2008, and August 31, 2010, respectively. However on a quarterly basis, the Company will conduct an evaluation of these balances and revise its assumptions and estimates, as appropriate.

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending liability is shown below:

 

Fiscal 2007 Restructuring Plan

   Work force
reduction
    Facility
costs
    Other     Total  

Balance as of June 30, 2006

   $ —       $ —       $ —       $ —    

Accruals

     5,766       189       467       6,422  

Cash payments

     (4,621 )     (112 )     (467 )     (5,200 )

Foreign exchange and other adjustments

     84       (32 )     —         52  
                                

Balance as of June 30, 2007

   $ 1,229     $ 45     $ —       $ 1,274  
                                

The following table outlines restructuring charges incurred under the Fiscal 2007 restructuring plan, by segment, for the year ended June 30, 2007.

 

Fiscal 2007 Restructuring Plan—by Segment

   Work force
reduction
   Facility
costs
   Other    Total

North America

   $ 2,007    $ —      $ 282    $ 2,289

Europe

     3,759      189      173      4,121

Other

     —        —        12      12
                           

Total charge by segment for the year ended June 30, 2007

   $ 5,766    $ 189    $ 467    $ 6,422
                           

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan

In the three months ended September 30, 2005, the Board approved, and the Company began to implement restructuring activities to streamline its operations and consolidate its excess facilities (“Fiscal 2006 restructuring plan”). These charges relate to work force reductions, abandonment of excess facilities and other miscellaneous direct costs. On a quarterly basis, the Company conducts an evaluation of these balances and revises its assumptions and estimates, as appropriate. In the year ended June 30, 2007, the Company recorded recoveries from special charges of $564,000. The provision related to workforce reduction is expected to be paid by September 30, 2007, and the provisions relating to the abandonment of excess facilities, such as contract settlements and lease costs, are expected to be paid by January 2014.

 

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A reconciliation of the beginning and ending liability for the Fiscal 2006 restructuring plan is shown below for the years ended June 30, 2007 and 2006.

 

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan

  

Work force

reduction

    Facility costs     Other     Total  

Balance as of June 30, 2006

   $ 2,685     $ 4,135     $ 9     $ 6,829  

Accruals (recoveries)

     (654 )     (6 )     96       (564 )

Cash payments

     (1,879 )     (2,973 )     (105 )     (4,957 )

Foreign exchange and other adjustments

     (18 )     190       —         172  
                                

Balance as of June 30, 2007

   $ 134     $ 1,346     $ —       $ 1,480  
                                

 

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan

   Work force
reduction
    Facility costs     Other     Total  

Balance as of June 30, 2005

   $ —       $ —       $ —       $ —    

Accruals

     13,982       6,708       933       21,623  

Cash payments

     (11,788 )     (2,770 )     (924 )     (15,482 )

Foreign exchange and other adjustments

     491       197       —         688  
                                

Balance as of June 30, 2006

   $ 2,685     $ 4,135     $ 9     $ 6,829  
                                

The following table outlines restructuring charges incurred under the Fiscal 2006 restructuring plan, by segment, for the year ended June 30, 2007:

 

Fiscal 2006 Restructuring Plan—by Segment

   Work force
reduction
    Facility costs     Other     Total  

North America

   $ (190 )   $ (49 )   $ 19     $ (220 )

Europe

     (456 )     43       82       (331 )

Other

     (8 )     —         (5 )     (13 )
                                

Total charge (recoveries) by segment for the year ended June 30, 2007

   $ (654 )   $ (6 )   $ 96     $ (564 )
                                

Fiscal 2004 Restructuring Plan

In the three months ended March 31, 2004, the Company recorded a restructuring charge of approximately $10 million relating primarily to its North America segment. (“Fiscal 2004 restructuring plan”) The charge consisted primarily of costs associated with a workforce reduction, excess facilities associated with the integration of the IXOS acquisition, write downs of capital assets and legal costs related to the termination of facilities. All actions relating to employer workforce reductions were completed, and the related costs expended as of March 31, 2006. On a quarterly basis the Company conducts an evaluation of these balances and revises its assumptions and estimates, as appropriate. The provision for facility costs is expected to be substantially paid by 2011.

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending liability for the Fiscal 2004 restructuring plan is shown below for the years ended June 30, 2007, 2006 and 2005.

 

Fiscal 2004 Restructuring Plan

   Facility costs  

Balance as of June 30, 2006

   $ 1,170  

Accruals

     202  

Cash payments

     (521 )

Foreign exchange and other adjustments

     413  
        

Balance as of June 30, 2007

   $ 1,264  
        

 

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Fiscal 2004 Restructuring Plan

   Work force
reduction
    Facility costs     Total  

Balance as of June 30, 2005

   $ 167     $ 1,878     $ 2,045  

Revisions to prior accruals

     (167 )     (139 )     (306 )

Cash payments

     —         (659 )     (659 )

Foreign exchange and other adjustments

     —         90       90  
                        

Balance as of June 30, 2006

   $ —       $ 1,170     $ 1,170  
                        

 

Fiscal 2004 Restructuring Plan

   Work force
reduction
    Facility costs     Other     Total  

Balance as of June 30, 2004

   $ 3,290     $ 2,538     $ 90     $ 5,918  

Revisions to prior accruals

     (1,423 )     (301 )     —         (1,724 )

Cash payments

     (1,700 )     (359 )     (90 )     (2,149 )

Foreign exchange and other adjustments

     —         —         —         —    
                                

Balance as of June 30, 2005

   $ 167     $ 1,878       —       $ 2,045  
                                

Accretion of excess facility obligations relating to the IXOS acquisition

In June 2007, based upon the Company’s periodic review of the estimates of the future sub-lease income, which is embedded in the estimate of accruals for excess facility obligations, the company reduced the original estimate for future sub-lease income relating to an excess facility acquired as part of the IXOS acquisition. The IXOS acquisition was consummated in March 2004.

In accordance with EITF 95-3, the original acquisition-related accrual for this facility was reduced by an estimate for future sub-lease income. EITF 95-3 also requires that any accretions to the original estimate, occurring one year after the date of the acquisition, be included in the determination of net income for the period in which such accretions are determined. Accordingly, the Company has included an amount of $6.2 million within Special charges on account of the revision of the original estimate of sub-lease income.

Impairment of intangible assets

During the year ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, impairment charges of $697,000 and $1.0 million, respectively, were recorded relating to a write-down of certain intellectual property in North America. The intellectual property represents the fair value of acquired technology from the Corechange acquisition which closed in the 2003 fiscal year. The triggering event that gave rise to the impairments was a shift in the marketing and development strategy associated with the intellectual property and the Company’s assessment of the acquired technology relative to its product lifecycle. The impairments were measured as the excess of the carrying amount over the discounted projected future net cash flows. In addition, in Fiscal 2006 the Company changed its estimate of the remaining useful life of the intellectual property from four to two years. The change in estimate was accounted for on a prospective basis. As of June 30, 2007, the carrying value of the intellectual property is nil.

Impairment of capital assets

There were no impairment charges recorded against capital assets during the year ended June 30, 2007.

During the year ended June 30, 2006, impairment charges of $3.8 million were recorded against capital assets that were written down to fair value, including various leasehold improvements at vacated premises and redundant office equipment. Fair value was determined based on the Company’s estimates of disposal proceeds, net of anticipated costs to sell.

 

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NOTE 18—OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)

Included in other income (expense) for the year ended June 30, 2007 are primarily foreign exchange gains of $1.1 million.

Included in other income (expense) for the year ended June 30, 2006 are primarily foreign exchange losses of $4.8 million.

Included in other income (expense) for the year ended June 30, 2005 are primarily foreign exchange losses of $1.8 million and an amount of $754,000 relating to interest charges and legal costs incurred on the settlement of the action brought against the Company by the Harold L. Tilbury and Yolanda O. Tilbury, Trustees of the Harold L. Tilbury Jr. and Yolanda O. Tilbury Family Trust.

NOTE 19—NET INCOME PER SHARE

Basic earnings per share are computed by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share are computed by dividing net income by the shares used in the calculation of basic net income per share plus the dilutive effect of common share equivalents, such as stock options, using the treasury stock method. Common share equivalents are excluded from the computation of diluted net income per share if their effect is anti-dilutive.

 

     Year Ended June 30,
     2007    2006    2005

Basic earnings per share

        

Net income

   $ 21,660    $ 4,978    $ 20,359
                    

Basic earnings per share

   $ 0.44    $ 0.10    $ 0.41
                    

Diluted earnings per share

        

Net income

   $ 21,660    $ 4,978    $ 20,359
                    

Diluted earnings per share

   $ 0.43    $ 0.10    $ 0.39
                    

Weighted average number of shares outstanding

        

Basic

     49,393      48,666      49,919

Effect of dilutive securities

     1,515      1,284      2,173
                    

Diluted

     50,908      49,950      52,092
                    

Excluded as anti-dilutive *

     1,423      1,947      622
                    

* Represents options to purchase Common Shares excluded from the calculation of diluted net income per share because the exercise price of the stock options was greater than or equal to the average price of the Common Shares during the fiscal year.

NOTE 20—RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

During Fiscal 2007, Mr. Stephen Sadler, a director, received approximately $420,000 (Fiscal 2006 – $37,000, Fiscal 2005 – $316,000) in consulting fees for assistance with acquisition-related business activities. Mr. Sadler abstained from voting on all transactions from which he would potentially derive consulting fees.

 

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NOTE 21—SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

On September 10, 2007 the Company’s Board of Directors approved the implementation of a Long-Term Incentive Plan called the “Open Text Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan” (“LTIP”). The LTIP takes effect for the Company’s Fiscal 2008, starting on July 1, 2007. The LTIP is a rolling three year program whereby the Company will make a series of annual grants, each of which covers a three year performance period, to its executive officers, upon the executive officer meeting pre-determined performance targets. Awards may range from 100% to 150% of target, based on the executive officer’s accomplishments over the three year period. The maximum amount that an executive officer may receive with regard to any single performance criterion is 1.5 times the target award for that criterion. The Company expects to pay awards under the LTIP in cash.

 

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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None

 

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

(A) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

As of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our management, with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rule 13a-15 (e) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, and that material information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

(B) Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f), to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of our financial reporting and the preparation of our financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures of are being made only in accordance with the authorizations of our management and our directors; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.

Our management assessed our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2007, the end of our fiscal year. In making our assessment, our management used the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our assessment, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of June 30, 2007.

Our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, do not expect that our disclosure controls or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all error or all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met. The design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Further, because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error. Controls can also be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls is based in part on certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions.

 

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Any evaluation of prospective control effectiveness, with respect to future periods, are subject to risks. Over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or deterioration in the degree of compliance with policies or procedures.

Management has concluded that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective as of the end of the most recent fiscal year. Our assessment of and conclusion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting did not include the internal controls of the operations acquired from Hummingbird Ltd. on October 2, 2006, which are included in our fiscal 2007 consolidated financial statements and which, in the aggregate, consisted of approximately 29% of total assets, as of June 30, 2007 .

(C) Attestation Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

On June 20, 2007, the SEC adopted rules to require the expression of a single opinion directly on the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting (“ICFR”) by the auditor in its attestation report on ICFR. Therefore, the SEC no longer requires the auditor to separately express an opinion concerning management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the company’s ICFR.

On July 25, 2007, the SEC approved PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 5 (“AS 5”), which replaces Auditing Standard No. 2 (“AS 2”) as guidance for conducting an audit of ICFR. The standard must be used for all audits of internal controls performed in conjunction with financial statement audits with fiscal years ending on November 15, 2007 or later. Early adoption is permitted and encouraged for companies filing annual reports after the effective date of amended SEC rules relating to ICFR. KPMG has issued an AS 5 form of report which includes only a report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.

(D) Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting

As a result of the evaluation completed by management, in which our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer participated, management has concluded that there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during our fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2007 that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 9B. Other Information

On September 10, 2007 our Board of Directors approved the implementation of a Long-Term Incentive Plan called the “Open Text Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan” (“LTIP”). The LTIP takes effect for our Fiscal 2008 Year, starting on July 1, 2007. The LTIP is a rolling three year program whereby we will make a series of annual grants, each of which covers a three year performance period, to our executive officers, upon the executive officer meeting pre-determined performance targets. Awards may range from 100% to 150% of target, based on the executive officer’s accomplishments over the three year period. The maximum amount that an executive officer may receive with regard to any single performance criterion is 1.5 times the target award for that criterion. We expect to pay awards under the LTIP in cash.

 

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PART III

 

Item 10. Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant

The following table sets forth certain information as to our directors and executive officers as of September 1, 2007.

 

Name

   Age   

Position with Company

  

Principal Occupation

P. Thomas Jenkins

Ontario, Canada

   47    Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer    Executive and Chief Strategy Officer

John Shackleton

Illinois, USA

   60    President and Chief Executive Officer    President and Chief Executive Officer

Randy Fowlie (2)(3)

Ontario, Canada

   47    Director    Private Consultant

Brian Jackman (2)(3)

Illinois, USA

   66    Director    President, the Jackman Group, Inc.

Ken Olisa (1)(3)

London, UK

   55    Director    Chairman, Restoration Partners

Stephen J. Sadler

Ontario, Canada

   56    Director    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Enghouse Systems Limited

Michael Slaunwhite (2)

Ontario, Canada

   46    Director    Executive Chairman, Halogen Software Inc.

Gail Hamilton (1)

Texas, USA

   57    Director    Former Executive Vice President, Symantec

Paul McFeeters

Ontario, Canada

   53    Chief Financial Officer    Chief Financial Officer

Bill Forquer

Ohio, USA

   49    Executive Vice President, Marketing and President, Defined Markets    Executive Vice President, Marketing and President, Defined Markets

Kirk Roberts

Ontario, Canada

   46    Corporate Executive Vice President and President, Livelink Enterprise Content Management Division    Corporate Executive Vice President and President, Livelink Enterprise Content Management Division

John Wilkerson

Illinois, USA

   51    Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services    Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services

(1) Member of the Compensation Committee.
(2) Member of the Audit Committee.
(3) Member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.

P. Thomas Jenkins has served as a director of the Company since December 1994 and as Executive Chairman of the Company since June 30, 2005. Mr. Jenkins was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of the Company in August 2005. From 1997 until July 2005, Mr. Jenkins served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Jenkins is currently a member of the board of BMC Software, Inc. From December 1994 to July 1997, Mr. Jenkins held progressive executive positions within the Company. From December 1989 until June 1994, he held several executive positions with DALSA Inc., an electronic imaging manufacturer. Mr. Jenkins

 

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received an M.B.A. in technology management from York University, a M.A. Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a B. Eng. Mgt. in technology and commerce from McMaster University.

John Shackleton has served as a director of the Company since January 1999 and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since July 2005. From November 1998 to July 2005, Mr. Shackleton served as President of the Company. From July 1996 to 1998, Mr. Shackleton served as President of the Platinum Solution division for Platinum Technology Inc. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Professional Services for the Central U.S. and South America at Sybase, Inc., as Vice President of Worldwide Consulting at View Star Corp., a document management imaging company, and he directed several consulting practices for Oracle Systems Corp.

Randy Fowlie has served as a director of the Company since March 1998. Mr. Fowlie has been a private consultant since July 2006. From January 2005 until July 14, 2006, Mr. Fowlie held the position of Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media of Leitch Business Unit (of Harris Broadcast Communications Division), a public software and hardware company, which acquired Inscriber Technology Corporation in January 2005. From June 1999 to January 2005, Mr. Fowlie held the position of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Inscriber Technology Corporation, a computer software company, and from February 1998 to June 1999, Mr. Fowlie was the Chief Financial Officer thereof. Prior thereto, Mr. Fowlie was a partner with KPMG Chartered Accountants where he worked from 1984. Mr. Fowlie received a B.B.A. (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier University and he is a Chartered Accountant.

Brian J. Jackman has served as a director of the Company since December 2002. Mr. Jackman is the President of the Jackman Group, Inc., a private consulting firm he founded in 2005. Mr. Jackman also serves as a director of PCTEL, Inc. and Keithley Instruments. From 1982 until his retirement in September 2001, Mr. Jackman held various positions with Tellabs, Inc., a U.S. based manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, most recently as Executive Vice-President, President, Global Systems and Technologies and as a member of the board of directors of the company. Mr. Jackman received a B.A. from Gannon University and an M.B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University.

Ken Olisa has served as a director of the Company since January 1998. Mr. Olisa is the Founder and Chairman of Restoration Partners, a boutique technology merchant bank, which was launched in 2006. Prior thereto Mr. Olisa was Chairman & CEO of Interregnum Plc., a publicly traded UK technology merchant bank, which he founded in 1992. After working for IBM from 1974 to 1981, Mr. Olisa held various positions with Wang Laboratories Inc. between 1981 and 1992, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe, Africa and Middle East. Mr. Olisa is a director of Reuters Group Plc and of several other private information technology companies in the UK. Mr. Olisa is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; a Freeman of the City of London; a Director of the Reuters Foundation; Chairman of Thames Reach, a charity working to shelter and resettle the homeless in London; and a Governor of the Peabody Trust. Mr. Olisa holds an MA from Cambridge University in Natural, Social, Political and Management Science.

Stephen J. Sadler has served as a director of the Company since September 1997. From April 2000 to present, Mr. Sadler has served as the Chairman and CEO of Enghouse Systems Limited, a software engineering company that develops geographic information systems as well as interactive voice response systems. Mr. Sadler was previously the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of GEAC from 1987 to 1990, was President and Chief Executive Officer of GEAC from 1990 to 1996, was Vice Chairman thereof from 1996 to 1998, and was a Senior Advisor to GEAC on acquisitions until May 1999. Prior to Mr. Sadler’s involvement with GEAC, he held executive positions with Phillips Electronics Limited and Loblaws Companies Limited. Mr. Sadler is Chairman of Helix Investments (Canada) Inc., a position he has held since early 1998. Mr. Sadler is also currently a director of Enghouse Systems Limited, and Belzberg Technologies Ltd. Mr. Sadler holds a B.A. Sc. (Honours) in industrial engineering and an M.B.A. (Dean’s List) and he is a Chartered Accountant.

 

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Michael Slaunwhite has served as a director of the Company since March 1998. Mr. Slaunwhite is presently Executive Chairman of Halogen Software Inc. Mr. Slaunwhite had served as CEO and Chairman of Halogen Software Inc., a leading provider of employee performance management software, from 2000 to August 2006, and as President and Chairman from 1995 to 2000. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Slaunwhite was an independent consultant to a number of companies assisting them with strategic and financing plans. Mr. Slaunwhite was Chief Financial Officer of Corel Corporation from 1988 to 1993. Mr. Slaunwhite holds B.A. Commerce (Honours) from Carleton University.

Gail Hamilton most recently led a team of over 2,000 employees worldwide at Symantec and had P&L responsibility for the global services and support business. Previously Ms. Hamilton led all of Symantec’s consumer and enterprise product development, marketing and support. During her five years at Symantec, Ms. Hamilton helped steer the company through an aggressive acquisition strategy. In 2003, Information Security Magazine recognized Ms. Hamilton as one of the ‘20 Women Luminaries’ shaping the security industry. Ms. Hamilton has over 20 years experience growing leading technology and services businesses in the enterprise market. She has extensive management experience at Compaq and HP, as well as Microtec Research. She is a member of the board of directors of Ixia (a provider of IP network testing solutions), Washington Group International (an engineering and construction services company) and Surgient (a supplier of virtualization technology). Ms. Hamilton received both a BSEE from the University of Colorado and an MSEE from Stanford University.

Paul McFeeters was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company on June 1, 2006. Mr. McFeeters has more than 20 years of business experience, including previous employment as Chief Financial Officer of Platform Computing Inc. (a grid computing software vendor), Kintana, Inc. (a privately-held IT governance software provider), as well as President and CEO positions at both MD Private Trust and Municipal Financial Corporation. He holds a Certified Management Accountant designation and attained a B.B.A (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA from York University, Canada.

Bill Forquer was appointed Executive Vice President, Marketing and President, Defined Markets in July 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Forquer was Executive Vice President, ECM Business Development. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Executive Vice President, Marketing. Mr. Forquer has also held the position of Senior Vice President, Business Development of the Company. Mr. Forquer has been involved with knowledge management systems his entire career. He has been with Open Text since June 1998, when the Company acquired Information Dimensions, Inc. (IDI) where Mr. Forquer was President. Mr. Forquer began his career in 1981 at Battelle Laboratories developing the software that subsequently was spun-out as IDI. Mr. Forquer has a B.S. in Mathematics Education and a M.S. in Computer and Information Science, both from The Ohio State University.

Kirk Roberts was appointed Corporate Executive Vice President and President, Livelink Enterprise Content Management Division in July 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Roberts was Executive Vice President, Product Solutions and Marketing. From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Roberts served as Executive Vice President, Services for the Company. Mr. Roberts has been in the online services and software industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining the Company in 1996 Mr. Roberts founded NirvCentre, one of Canada’s first online service providers, where he served as the senior executive for ten years. In 1996, as a result of a strategic acquisition, Mr. Roberts joined Open Text, and designed and launched the Livelink Online Service—a global Livelink application hosting service for large corporations.

John Wilkerson was appointed Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services in August 2006. Mr. Wilkerson has over 25 years of experience working in the hi-technology industry. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Wilkerson served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Business Development, Technical Services and Customer Support at Bocada Corporation. From 2002 to 2003, Mr. Wilkerson served as Vice President of United States Services for Microsoft Corporation, where Mr. Wilkerson was responsible for the operating plan and execution of Microsoft Consulting services and Premier Support services for the U.S. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Wilkerson served as Vice President and President of Global Alliances at Electronic Data Systems Corporation. Mr. Wilkerson has also had other executive and management positions at Oracle Corporation and

 

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IBM Corporation. Currently Mr. Wilkerson is a director on the Advisory Board for Bocada Corporation and Tide Line Capital, both privately held, venture-backed companies. Mr. Wilkerson has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Seattle Pacific University, as well as a number of other post-graduate degrees in marketing, management, and technical studies at several universities across the United States.

Audit Committee

The Audit Committee currently consists of three directors Messrs Fowlie, Jackman, and Slaunwhite, with Mr. Fowlie serving as Chairman, all of whom have been determined by the Board of Directors to be independent as that term is defined in NASDAQ Rule 4200(a)(15) and in Rule 10A-3 promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act, and within the meaning of our director independence standards and those of any exchange, quotation system or market upon which our securities are traded.

The Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Fowlie qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” as such term is defined in SEC Regulation S-K, Item 401(h) and NASD Rule 4350.

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to all of our directors, officers and employees, including the principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer and controller, or persons performing similar functions. The Code of Business Conduct and Ethics incorporates our guidelines designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships, and compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. The Code also incorporates our expectations of our employees that enable us to provide fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other public commissions.

The full text of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics is published on our web site at www.opentext.com under the Company/Investors section. We intend to disclose future amendments to certain provisions of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, or waivers of such provisions that apply or are granted to directors and executive officers, on this web site within four business days following the date of such amendment or waiver.

 

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ITEM 11.    EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

COMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT

Our Compensation Committee has reviewed and discussed with management the following Compensation Discussion and Analysis. Based on this review and discussion, our Compensation Committee has recommended to the Board that the following Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2007.

This report is provided by the following independent directors, who comprise our Compensation Committee:

Ken Olisa and Gail Hamilton

COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

Overview of Compensation Program

The Compensation Committee of Open Text’s board of directors (or the Compensation Committee) is responsible for making recommendations to Open Text’s board of directors (or the Board) with respect to the compensation of our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and our three most highly compensated executives, other than our principal executive officer and principal financial officer (collectively, the Named Executive Officers). Our Compensation Committee ensures that total compensation paid to our Named Executive Officers is fair and reasonable and consistent with our compensation philosophy. The Named Executive Officers who are the subject of this Compensation Discussion and Analysis are:

 

   

John Shackleton—President and Chief Executive Officer;

 

   

P. Thomas Jenkins—Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer;

 

   

Paul McFeeters—Chief Financial Officer

 

   

Kirk Roberts—Executive Vice President and President Livelink Enterprise Content Management Division

 

   

John Wilkerson—Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services

Compensation Oversight Process

Our Compensation Committee has responsibility for the oversight of executive compensation and recommends compensation planning to the Board for final approval.

We often seek the advice of outside compensation consultants to provide assistance and guidance on compensation issues. Consultants are screened and chosen by our Compensation Committee in discussion with our management. The consultants provide our Compensation Committee with relevant information pertaining to market compensation levels, alternative compensation plan designs, market trends and best practices. The consultants assist our Compensation Committee with respect to determining the appropriate benchmarks for each Named Executive Officer’s compensation. The consulting firm that we relied upon in performing these functions during Fiscal 2007 was Towers Perrin of Toronto, Canada.

Our Compensation Committee considers the impact of tax and accounting treatment for the different types of compensation programs it approves and ensures that compensation programs comply with tax, regulatory and accounting requirements in both the United States and in Canada, as well as with all applicable securities laws in the United States and in Canada.

 

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Our Compensation Committee met five times during Fiscal 2007. Management assists in the coordination and preparation of the meeting agenda and materials for each meeting, which are reviewed and approved by the Chairman of our Compensation Committee. Following the approval of the Chairman of our Compensation Committee, meeting materials are generally mailed to Compensation Committee members for review approximately one week in advance of each meeting.

Role of Executive Officers in the Compensation Process

Our Compensation Committee recommends all compensation decisions with respect to our executive officers to the Board for the Board’s final approval. While our Compensation Committee alone makes all recommendations with respect to Mr. Shackleton’s and Mr. Jenkins’ compensation, our Compensation Committee does consider the recommendations of Mr. Shackleton when making compensation decisions regarding all other Named Executive Officers. Our Board conducts the initial discussions and makes the initial decisions with respect to the compensation of Mr. Shackleton and Mr. Jenkins in a special session from which management is absent. Then our Board communicates its decisions and provides further discussion in an executive session in which management is allowed to attend. Management works with the outside compensation consultants by providing internal information as necessary to facilitate comparisons of our compensation programs to those programs of our peers and competitors.

Compensation Philosophy

We believe that compensation plays an important role in achieving short and long-term business objectives that ultimately drives business success in alignment with long-term shareholder goals.

Our compensation philosophy is based on three fundamental principles:

 

   

Strong link to business strategyshort and long-term goals should be reflected in our overall compensation program;

 

   

Performance sensitivecompensation should be linked to operating and market performance of our organization and fluctuate with performance; and

 

   

Market relevantour compensation program should provide market competitive pay in terms of value and structure in order to retain existing employees who are performing according to their objectives and to attract new recruits of the highest calibre.

Our reward package is based primarily on results achieved by the company as a whole. Three of the five Named Executive Officers (Tom Jenkins, John Shackleton and Kirk Roberts) have a minority element of their reward package determined by their fulfillment of personal strategic goals. Some of these personal strategic goals are:

 

   

Leadership ability;

 

   

The ability to stay at the forefront of technological innovation;

 

   

The ability to effectively implement mergers and acquisitions;

 

   

Demonstrated commitment to our organization;

 

   

Success in attracting and retaining customers;

 

   

The quality and effectiveness of the corporate governance policies and procedures that are in place; and

 

   

The effectiveness of organizational structure of Open Text including without limitation the ability to recruit and retain motivated employees throughout the organization.

 

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Compensation Objectives

The objectives of our compensation program are:

 

   

To attract and retain highly qualified executive officers with a history of proven success;

 

   

To align the interests of executive officers with our interests and with the execution of our business strategy;

 

   

To evaluate executive performance on the basis of key financial measurements which we believe closely correlate to long-term shareholder value such as world-wide revenue, world-wide adjusted net income and world-wide expenses; and

 

   

To tie compensation directly to those measurements and rewards based on achieving and overachieving predetermined objectives.

Attracting and Retaining Highly Qualified Executive Officers

We seek to attract and retain high performing executives by offering:

 

   

Competitive compensation; and

 

   

An appropriate mix and level of short-term and long-term financial incentives.

Competitive Compensation

Aggregate compensation for each Named Executive Officer is designed to be competitive. We research and refer to the compensation practices of similarly situated companies in determining our compensation policy. In addition, we participate in numerous studies throughout the year pertaining to our market and our industry.

Our Compensation Committee reviews data related to compensation levels and programs of other companies prior to making its decisions. Each year, the consultant hired by our Compensation Committee performs an assessment of the compensation of our executives. The consultant uses a benchmarking process that compares all material elements of our compensation programs with those of other companies that have similar characteristics. The purpose of this process is to:

 

   

Understand the competitiveness of current pay levels for each executive position relative to companies with similar revenues and business characteristics;

 

   

Identify and understand any gaps that may exist between actual compensation levels and market compensation levels; and

 

   

Serve as a basis for developing salary adjustments and short-term and long-term incentive awards for our Compensation Committee’s approval.

In determining the compensation for the Named Executive Officers, we look at available compensation information with respect to companies which:

 

   

Are similar in size to Open Text;

 

   

Are located in North America; and

 

   

Have a global presence in the technology industry.

In this research, we work with the consultant to perform a benchmark analysis with respect to all material elements of compensation.

 

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Short-Term and Long-Term Financial Incentives

To motivate our executives to achieve our short-term corporate goals, we allow all of our Named Executive Officers to participate in our variable short-term incentive plan. The primary component of our variable short-term incentive plan is the award of cash incentive payments.

Our practice in the past has been to provide long-term incentive compensation to our Named Executive Officers in the form of a periodic grant of stock options. This grant of options is in addition to the grant of options made upon the hiring of the Named Executive Officer. The granting of stock options pursuant to our existing stock option plan is the sole long-term incentive that we employ. On September 10, 2007, our Board approved the implementation of a new long-term incentive compensation plan (or the New Long-Term Incentive Plan). The New Long-Term Incentive Plan came into effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008 (or Fiscal 2008). Our goal in designing the New Long-Term Incentive Plan is to provide our executives with an opportunity to make an investment in Open Text and to have a stake in our future. The New Long-Term Incentive Plan endeavors to encourage and reward superior performance by tying an increase in the Named Executive Officer’s compensation with improvements in our performance and with an increase in the value of our shareholders’ investment.

Further information regarding the determination and the mechanics of our short-term and long-term incentives may be found in the following section which discusses the alignment of the Named Executive Officer’s interests with our interests.

Aligning the Interests of the Named Executive Officers with the Interests of Open Text

We believe that transparent, objective and easily verified corporate goals, combined with individual performance goals with respect to some of our Named Executive Officers, play an important role in creating and maintaining an effective compensation strategy. Our objective is to facilitate an increase in shareholder value through the achievement of these corporate goals by the Named Executive Officers working in conjunction with all of our valued employees.

We use a combination of fixed and variable compensation to motivate our executives to achieve our corporate goals. For Fiscal 2007, the two basic components of our executive officer compensation program were:

 

   

Fixed salary and benefits; and

 

   

Variable short-term incentives.

Salary and benefits represent the majority of total cash-based compensation and variable short-term incentive payments represent the rest. During Fiscal 2007, we did not have a long-term incentive plan in place. However, our Board approved our New Long-Term Incentive Plan on September 10, 2007, and the New Long-Term Incentive Plan will be in effect during Fiscal 2008.

A significant component of cash-based compensation is at risk and tied to quantitative performance targets. Compensation that is at risk means compensation that may or may not be paid to the respective officer depending on whether the executive officer is able to meet or exceed his or her applicable performance targets. Approximately thirty percent to fifty percent of the cash-based compensation of our Named Executive Officers is at risk and tied to quantitative performance targets. The chart below provides the approximate composition of the total cash-based compensation provided to each Named Executive Officer:

 

Named Executive Officer

  

Fixed Salary and Benefits

Percentage (“Not At Risk”)

 

Variable Short-Term Incentive

Percentage (“At Risk”)

Tom Jenkins

   50%   50%

John Shackleton

   50%   50%

Kirk Roberts

   60%   40%

John Wilkerson

   55%   45%

Paul McFeeters

   70%   30%

 

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Our Compensation Committee will adjust the percentage of the Named Executive Officer’s compensation that is at risk depending on the Named Executive Officer’s responsibilities and objectives.

Fixed Salary and Benefits

Fixed salary and benefits include:

 

   

Base salary;

 

   

Perquisites; and

 

   

Other benefits.

Base Salary

Base salary for our Named Executive Officers, other than for Mr. Jenkins and for Mr. Shackleton, is reviewed annually by the Named Executive Officers’ reporting manager and by Mr. Shackleton, and then by the Compensation Committee and the Board of Directors. Base salary for Mr. Jenkins and for Mr. Shackleton is reviewed annually by our Compensation Committee and by our Board. The base salary review for each executive officer takes into consideration factors such as current competitive market conditions and the particular skills such as leadership ability and management effectiveness, experience, responsibility and proven or expected performance of the particular individual. Information with regard to competitive market conditions is gained by our Compensation Committee through the assistance of our management and of the external compensation consultants.

The performance of each of the Named Executive Officers, other than Mr. Shackleton and Mr. Jenkins is assessed by Mr. Shackleton, in his capacity as the direct supervisor of the three other Named Executive Officers. Our Board assesses the performance of each of Mr. Shackleton and Mr. Jenkins. Our Board conducts the initial discussions and makes the initial decisions with respect to the performance of each of Mr. Shackleton and Mr. Jenkins in a special session from which management is absent. Then our Board communicates its decisions and provides further discussion in an executive session in which management is allowed to attend. Each Named Executive Officer also performs a self-assessment.

Perquisites

Named Executive Officers receive a minimal amount of non-cash compensation in the form of executive perquisites. Our executive officers are entitled to few benefits that are not otherwise available to all of our employees. Each Named Executive Officer receives a base allowance per year for primarily the purposes of:

 

   

Participating in an annual executive medical physical examination;

 

   

Maintaining membership in a health club; and

 

   

Purchasing financial advice and related services.

For descriptions of other perquisites that we provide, please see the “All Other Compensation” column to our Summary Compensation table below.

Other Benefits

We provide various employee benefit programs such as, but not limited to:

 

   

Medical health insurance;

 

   

Dental insurance;

 

   

Life insurance;

 

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Tuition reimbursement programs; and

 

   

Retirement savings plans.

These benefit programs are generally available to all of our employees, including our Named Executive Officers.

Variable Short-Term Incentives

The amount of the variable short-term incentive payable to each Named Executive Officer is based on the ability of each Named Executive Officer to meet pre-established qualitative and quantitative corporate objectives approved by our Board, such as annual revenue and adjusted net income targets. In addition, there may be incentives offered based upon the performance of the Named Executive Officer’s division or area of responsibility. An example of such an incentive is world-wide divisional expenses. World-wide divisional expenses are the direct costs of production, operating expenses and overhead expenses for a particular division of our operations. World-wide divisional expenses are an objective used to measure the performance of Mr. McFeeters, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Wilkerson. We compare actual world-wide divisional expenses against the budget for these expenses which we set at the beginning of the fiscal year so that we may calculate a portion of these Named Executive Officers’ short-term incentive income.

No Named Executive Officer, other than Mr. McFeeters, has any cash incentive payments tied to qualitative objectives. With respect Mr. McFeeters, 10% of his target variable compensation is based on our Audit Committee’s assessment of his performance.

One measure which we use to determine the amount of the cash incentive we award to each Named Executive Officer is adjusted net income. Adjusted net income is a financial measure that excludes certain non-operational charges that have no effect on our operating decisions. Adjusted net income is an important variable that helps us internally assess and evaluate the performance of our business. Adjusted net income is calculated as net income excluding, where applicable, the amortization of acquired intangible assets, other income (expense), share-based compensation and restructuring, all net of tax. In addition, for the purposes of determining the cash incentive we award to each Named Executive Officer, adjusted net income is further adjusted to remove the effects of foreign exchange fluctuations and the effects of any acquisitions not contemplated at the time that the corporate objectives for executive performance targets with respect to the applicable Named Executive Officer were established.

Another measure which we use to determine the amount of the cash incentive we award to each Named Executive Officer is world-wide revenue. We calculate this measure by comparing actual world-wide revenue generated to target world-wide revenue set at the beginning of the fiscal year. World-wide revenue is derived from the “Total Revenues” line of our audited income statement with no adjustments or other alterations made to this figure. World-wide revenue is an important variable that helps us to assess the Named Executive Officer’s role in helping us to grow and manage our business.

Variable Long-Term Incentives

With respect to the stock options we grant, our Board, subject to the recommendation of our Compensation Committee, makes the following determinations:

 

   

The names of the Named Executive Officers and others who are entitled to participate in the stock option plan;

 

   

The number of options to be granted under the plan in general and to each recipient in particular;

 

   

The exercise price for each stock option granted;

 

   

The date in which each option is granted;

 

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The exercise period for each stock option; and

 

   

The other material terms and conditions of each stock option grant.

Our Board makes this determination subject to the provisions of our currently existing stock option plans, and is guided by a table of annual ranges for grants of our stock options. Gains from prior option grants are not considered when setting the amount of long term incentive awards to any Named Executive Officer.

We periodically award grant options to our Named Executive Officers and to our other employees each quarter. During each quarter, our Board conducts meetings in which it reviews and approves grants of options. The grant dates for these options abide by the provisions of our insider trading policy, which states in part that stock options may not be granted while a “trading window” is closed. Generally, the “trading window” is closed during the period beginning on the fifteenth day of the last month of each quarter and ending at the beginning of the second trading day following the date on which our quarterly or annual financial results, as applicable, have been publicly released. If our Board approves the issuance of stock options while a trading window is closed, these stock options are not granted until the trading window reopens.

Our stock options are granted:

 

   

On the second trading day for the NASDAQ market following the date on which our quarterly or annual financial results, as applicable, are released; and

 

   

At a price that is not less than the closing price of our common shares on the trading day for the NASDAQ market immediately preceding the applicable grant date.

The Open Text stock option plan and the insider trading policy govern the timing of the grants of options to employees (including all of the Named Executive Officers), grants to our non executive employees generally follow the same schedule of dates as option grants to our Named Executive Officers. Most grants of options to employees other than to our Named Executive Officers are issued at the time we hire the individual employee. The stock option administration group within our finance division administers our stock option program.

New Long-Term Incentive Plan

On September 10, 2007, our Board approved the implementation of the New Long-Term Incentive Plan. The New Long-Term Incentive Plan will be in effect during Fiscal 2008. The New Long-Term Incentive Plan is a rolling three year program, which means that, pursuant to the terms of the New Long-Term Incentive Plan, we make a series of annual grants, each of which covers a three year performance period. Initial grants will be calculated using a percentage of the Named Executive Officer’s total target compensation. For example, a target compensation of $500,000 combined with 100% fulfillment of the performance criteria will result in a $500,000 award under the New Long-Term Incentive Plan. Three performance criteria will be used to measure performance over the relevant three year period:

 

   

Absolute share priceif our common shares appreciate to a predetermined price per share and that price is maintained for a minimum of 22 consecutive NASDAQ trading days, the absolute share price target will be achieved;

 

   

Relative total shareholder returnif, over a three year period, our common shares appreciate at a rate which exceeds the rate of appreciation for the Standard & Poor’s Mid Cap 400 – Software and Services Index by a prearranged percentage, the relative total shareholder return target will be achieved; and,

 

   

Average adjusted earnings per share—if the average of the adjusted earnings per share over the latter two years of a three year period reaches a preset amount, the average adjusted earnings per share target will be met (adjusted earnings per share means net income plus non-operational charges that have no effect on our operating decisions, with the resulting sum divided by the total number of common shares outstanding).

 

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The three performance criteria carry the following weightings:

 

   

Absolute share price = 37.5%;

 

   

Relative total shareholder return = 37.5%; and

 

   

Average adjusted earnings per share = 25%.

Awards may range from 100% to 150% of target based on the Named Executive Officer’s accomplishments over the three year period. The most that a Named Executive Officer may receive with regard to any single performance criterion is 1.5 times the target award for that criterion. For example, if a Named Executive Officer were to exceed the maximum established for absolute share price, he or she would receive a weighting in that performance criterion of 56.25% and a total award equal to 118.75% times the Named Executive Officer’s base salary if he or she met the targets established for the other two performance criteria. If the Named Executive Officer does not meet the target set for a particular performance criterion, he or she would not receive any award with respect to that criterion. However, the Named Executive Officer may receive an award with regard to any of the other two performance criteria if he or she met or exceeded the targets set for the applicable performance criterion. For example, if a Named Executive Officer failed to meet the target set for relative total shareholder return, exceeded the maximum set for absolute share price, and met the target set for average adjusted earnings per share, the Named Executive Officer would receive a total reward equal to 81.25% times the Named Executive Officer’s base salary.

We expect to pay awards under the New Long-Term Incentive Plan in cash.

Evaluating Executive Performance

Our Board, our Compensation Committee and our management have instituted a set of detailed procedures to evaluate the performance of each of our Named Executive Officers to help determine the amount of the variable short-term incentives and long-term incentives to award to each Named Executive Officer.

The Board of Directors, along with the CEO and CFO establish a budget at the Q4 meeting. Mr. Shackleton sets the corporate financial targets for each of our Named Executive Officers, other than for himself. The Board sets the corporate financial targets for Mr. Shackleton. Our Board conducts the initial discussions and makes the initial decisions with respect to the corporate financial targets for Mr. Shackleton in a special session from which management is absent. Then our Board communicates its decisions and provides further discussion in an executive session in which management is allowed to attend. The corporate financial targets used to evaluate the performance of each Named Executive Officer (and consequently to determine the amount of short-term and long-term incentives paid to each Named Executive Officer) exceed the corporate financial targets that we communicate to the public.

 

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Tying Compensation to Measurements of Performance

We determine targeted amounts of short-term incentives for each Named Executive Officer at the beginning of the fiscal year. In addition, we establish minimum and expected targets at the beginning of each fiscal year. The targets and the targeted amount of short-term incentives are correlated. Achieving the minimum target will trigger the award of the minimum incentive payment to the Named Executive Officer and achieving the expected target will trigger the award of the expected incentive payment. The Named Executive Officer will receive no incentive payment if he or she does not meet the minimum target. There is no maximum target set and no limit to what the Named Executive Officer may receive as a result of exceeding the expected target which is set at the beginning of the fiscal year. The following table sets out the percentage of salary set aside for achieving the minimum and expected targets:

 

Named Executive Officer

   Percentage of Salary Payable for
Achievement of Minimum Target
    Percentage of Salary Payable for
Achievement of Expected Target
 

Tom Jenkins

   8.25 %   100.00 %

John Shackleton

   8.25 %   100.00 %

Kirk Roberts

   6.00 %   65.00 %

John Wilkerson

   11.00 %   85.00 %

Paul McFeeters

   5.00 %   40.00 %

We believe that each element of our compensation program, including without limitation the New Long Term Incentive Plan, requires strong performance from each of our Named Executive Officers in order for the relevant Named Executive Officer to receive the targeted compensation awards.

Each element of the targeted short-term incentives is reviewed on an annual basis by our Compensation Committee for each Named Executive Officer, to ensure that the incentives are designed and implemented to align compensation with:

 

   

Short-term and long-term key corporate objectives; and

 

   

Employee performance.

Our Compensation Committee typically sets aside a significant portion of a meeting each year to this review. Our Compensation Committee uses budgetary guidelines and other internally generated planning and forecasting tools, combined with data provided by external compensation consultants, in the performance of our Compensation Committee’s annual review of long-term and short-term incentives as well as of overall compensation.

Other Information With Respect to Our Compensation Program

Deferred Compensation

We do not participate in nonqualified deferred compensation plans.

Pension Plans

We acquired a controlling interest in IXOS in March 2004. IXOS has pension commitments to some of its employees as well as to former members of its executive board. Other than this acquired pension plan, we do not provide pension benefits to our Named Executive Officers or to any of our other employees.

Share Ownership Guidelines

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Company. The Company believes that equity ownership by these Executives helps to align their interests with the financial interests of the shareholders of the Company, create ownership focus and build long-term commitment.

The investment target for these Executives shall be an amount equal to the Executive’s base salary, exclusive of bonus and other incentive compensation. The Executive shall reach the investment target by investing a minimum of $100,000 USD (but not to exceed the amount of any variable cash compensation paid to such Executive in such fiscal year) in Company common stock by the end of each fiscal year of employment, starting one year after the Executive commences employment, until the cumulative amount of Company stock held by the Executive represents an investment at least equal to the Executive’s then current base salary. If base salary increases, the investment target will increase by the amount of the salary increase.

Shares of Company stock issued and held pursuant to the exercised stock options shall be counted towards compliance with the equity ownership guidelines. For this purpose, the Executive shall be deemed to have invested an amount equal to the market price of the Company stock at the time of exercise. Shares of the Company stock issuable pursuant to the unexercised options shall not be counted towards compliance with the equity ownership target. For purposes of this Share Ownership Guideline, the Executive shall be deemed to hold all securities over which he is the registered or beneficial owner thereof through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise has or shares (i) voting power which includes the power to vote, or to direct the voting of, such security; and/or (ii) investment power which includes the power to dispose, or to direct the disposition of, such security. For greater certainty, “beneficial owner” shall include any person who, directly or indirectly, creates or uses a trust, proxy, power of attorney, pooling arrangement or any other contract, arrangement, or device whereby the Executive may be divested of beneficial ownership of a security.

Tax Deductibility of Compensation

Under Section 162(m) of the United States Internal Revenue Code (or Section 162(m)) publicly-held corporations cannot deduct compensation paid in excess of $1,000,000 to certain executives in any taxable year. Certain compensation paid under plans that are “performance-based” (which means compensation paid only if the individual’s performance meets pre-established objective goals based upon performance criteria approved by shareowners) are not subject to the $1,000,000 annual limit. Although our compensation policy, including without limitation the New Long-Term Incentive Plan, is designed to link compensation to performance, payments in excess of $1,000,000 made pursuant to any of our compensation plans, including without limitation the New Long-Term Incentive Plan, may not be deductible. This is because neither the New Long-Term Incentive Plan, nor any of our other compensation plans, have been presented to our stockholders for their approval.

Based on current compensation levels and taking into account proposed payments under the New Long-Term Incentive Plan, we do not expect any individuals to be paid non-performance based compensation in excess of the Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) tax deduction limit in the foreseeable future. However, we have determined that it is not appropriate at this time to limit our discretion to design the New Long-Term Incentive Plan, or any other compensation arrangements for our Named Executive Officers, to qualify such compensation for exemption from the deduction limits of Section 162(m). Therefore, we reserve the right to use our judgment to authorize compensation payments, through the New Long-Term Incentive Plan or otherwise, that do not comply with the exemptions in Section 162(m) when we believe such payments are appropriate and in the best interests of the stockholders, after taking into consideration changing business conditions or the Named Executive Officer’s performance.

Although the tax and accounting implications are considered by our Compensation Committee in designing compensation programs with respect to our Named Executive Officers, these factors do not comprise a material factor in the decisions made with respect to the compensation of our Named Executive Officers.

 

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Summary Compensation Table

The following table sets forth summary information concerning the annual compensation of our Named Executive Officers. All numbers are rounded to the nearest dollar or whole share.

 

    Fiscal
Year
  Salary
($) (1)
 

Bonus

($)

  Stock
Awards
($)
  Option
Awards
($) (2)
 

Non Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation

($)

 

Change in
Pension Value
and
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings

($)

 

All Other
Compensation

($) (3)

  Total ($)

John Shackleton

    President and Chief Executive Officer

  2007   $400,000   —     N/A   $368,007   $410,666   N/A   $18,535(4)   $ 1,197,208

Paul McFeeters

    Chief Financial Officer

  2007   $266,525   —     N/A   $334,996   $133,262   N/A   $ —  (5)   $ 734,783

P. Thomas Jenkins

    Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer

  2007   $435,323   —     N/A   $291,848   $494,110   N/A   $18,553(6)   $ 1,239,834

John Wilkerson

    Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services

  2007   $308,942   —     N/A   $470,283   $221,880   N/A   $ —  (7)   $ 1,001,105

Kirk Roberts

    Executive Vice President and President, Livelink Enterprise Content Management Division

  2007   $310,945   —     N/A   $315,802   $178,794   N/A   $ —  (8)   $ 805,541

Notes:

 

(1) Any Canadian dollar payments included herein have been converted to the U.S dollar at a conversion rate of 0.888415
(2) Amounts set forth in this column represent the amount recognized as share-based payment expense in our consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2007. This amount has been calculated in accordance with SFAS 123R. For a discussion of the assumptions used in this valuation, see Note 11 “Share Capital, Option Plan and Share-based Payments” to our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements under item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(3) The amounts in “Other Annual Compensation” primarily include (i) health benefits, (ii) car allowances paid, (iii) club memberships reimbursed, (iv) tax preparation and financial advisory fees paid, (v) living expenses reimbursed, (vi) gifts and entertainment expenses paid and (vii) Life insurance premiums paid by the Company. “Other Annual Compensation” does not include medical and group life insurance or other benefits received by the Named Executive Officers which are available generally to all our salaried employees.
(4) Represents amounts we paid or reimbursed for:

 

  a. Car allowances ($11,400); and
  b. Health club membership fees ($7,135)
(5) The total value of all perquisite and personal benefits for Mr. McFeeters was less than $10,000 and therefore excluded.
(6) Represents amounts we paid or reimbursed for:

 

  a. Club membership fees ($6,504)
  b. Tax preparation and financial advisory fees ($11,098)
  c. Other miscellaneous expenses or benefits that are less than 10% of the total amount of perquisites and personal benefits related to Mr. Jenkins
(7) The total value of all perquisite and personal benefits for Mr. Wilkerson was less than $10,000 and therefore excluded.
(8) The total value of all perquisite and personal benefits for Mr. Roberts was less than $10,000 and therefore excluded.

 

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Grants of Plan-based Awards in Fiscal Year 2007

The following table sets forth certain information concerning grants of awards made to each Named Executive Officer during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007:

 

          Estimated Future Payouts
Under Non-Equity
Incentive Plan Awards
   All Other Stock
Awards: Number
of Securities
Underlying
   Exercise or
Base Price
of Option
Awards
   Grant Date
Fair Value
of Stock and
Option

Name

   Grant Date (1)    Threshold ($)    Target ($)
(2)
   Options (#)    ($/Share)
(3)
   Awards ($)
(4)

John Shackleton

   February 12, 2007    $ 33,000    $ 400,000    50,000    $ 22.80    $ 520,285

Paul McFeeters (5)

      $ 13,326    $ 106,610         

P. Thomas Jenkins

   February 12, 2007    $ 35,914    $ 435,323    50,000    $ 22.80    $ 520,285

John Wilkerson

   September 5, 2006    $ 33,984    $ 262,601    300,000    $ 17.01    $ 2,305,650

Kirk Roberts

   September 5, 2006    $ 18,657    $ 202,114    100,000    $ 17.01    $ 749,870

(1) Generally the grant date for these options is the same as the approval date, unless our Board approves the issuance of stock options while a trading window is closed. In such instances, these stock options are not granted until the trading window reopens. For more details of our grant date procedures, please refer to the Compensation Discussion and Analysis under Item 11 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(2) Any Canadian dollar payments included herein have been converted to the U.S. dollar at a conversion rate of 0.888415.
(3) Options are awarded at an option price no less than the “market value” of our common shares on grant date.
(4) Grant date fair values are computed in accordance with SFAS 123R. For a detailed description of the assumptions made in the valuation of our stock options, see Note 11 “Share Capital, Option Plan and Share-based Payments” in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, under Item 8 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(5) Mr. McFeeters was granted 250,000 options on June 1, 2006 at an exercise price of $14.02 and a grant date fair value of $1,675,900.

 

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Outstanding Equity Awards

The following table sets forth certain information regarding unexercised options for each Named Executive Officer as of June 30, 2007.

 

     Option Awards

Name

   Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable
   Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable
   Option
Exercise
Price ($)
   Option Expiration
Date

John Shackleton:

   612,862    —      $ 6.88    November 2, 2008
   37,500    37,500    $ 16.92    December 9, 2011
   60,000    20,000    $ 17.04    August 19, 2013

Paul McFeeters:

   50,000    200,000    $ 14.02    June 1, 2013

P. Thomas Jenkins

   200,000    —      $ 10.39    August 7, 2012
   300,000    —      $ 14.10    December 3, 2011
   50,000    50,000    $ 16.92    December 9, 2011
   —      50,000    $ 22.80    February 12, 2014

John Wilkerson

   —      300,000    $ 17.01    September 5, 2013

Kirk Roberts

   20,000    —      $ 11.09    April 22, 2012
   12,500    37,500    $ 14.94    November 7, 2012
   20,000    —      $ 15.25    April 5, 2009
   5,000    5,000    $ 16.92    December 9, 2011
   —      100,000    $ 17.01    September 5, 2013
   15,000    5,000    $ 17.04    August 19, 2013

(1) We do not grant stock awards and therefore such information is not applicable herein.

Aggregated Option Exercises in Last Fiscal Year

The following table sets forth options exercised for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007 for each of the Named Executive Officers indicated below:

 

     Option Awards

Name

  

Number of Shares
Acquired on Exercise

(#)

  

Value Realized on
Exercise

($) (2)

John Shackleton

   —        —  

Paul McFeeters

   —        —  

P. Thomas Jenkins

   124,000    $ 2,263,320

John Wilkerson

   —        —  

Kirk Roberts

   23,100    $ 386,236

Note:

 

(1) We do not provide “stock awards” to either our Named Executive Officers or to any of our employees and therefore, information related to stock awards is not applicable herein
(2) “Value realized upon exercise” is the difference between the market price of the shares underlying the options and the exercise price of the options. The market price of shares that are acquired upon exercise and sold immediately by the Named Executive Officer is based upon the actual price at which the shares are sold. The market price of shares that are acquired and being held by the Named Executive Officer is based upon the closing price of our common shares on the NASDAQ on the day immediately preceding the exercise.

 

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POTENTIAL PAYMENTS UPON TERMINATION OR CHANGE IN CONTROL

The employment contracts we have entered into with our Named Executive Officers may require us to make certain types of payments and provide certain types of benefits to the Named Executive Officers upon the occurrence of any of these events:

 

   

If the Named Executive Officer is terminated without cause;

 

   

A change of control in the ownership of Open Text; and

 

   

A change in the relationship between Open Text and the Named Executive Officer.

Termination Without Cause

If the Named Executive Officer is terminated without cause, we may be obligated to make payments or provide benefits to the Named Executive Officer. A termination without cause means a termination of a Named Executive Officer for any reason other than the following:

 

   

The failure by the Named Executive Officer to perform his or her duties according to the terms of his or her employment agreement or to perform in a manner satisfactory to our Board after Open Text has given the Named Executive Officer reasonable notice of this failure as well as a reasonable opportunity to correct this failure; however, any such failure:

 

   

that follows a demotion in his or her position or duties, or

 

   

that results from a disability of the Named Executive Officer, is not considered a failure for purposes of this section;

 

   

The engagement by the Named Executive Officer in any act that is materially harmful to us;

 

   

The engagement by the Named Executive Officer in any illegal conduct or any act of dishonesty which benefits the Named Executive Officer at our expense including but not limited to the failure by the Named Executive Officer to:

 

   

honor his or her fiduciary duties to us, and

 

   

fulfill his or her duty to act in our best interests;

 

   

The failure of the Named Executive Officer to abide by the terms of any resolution passed by our Board; or

 

   

The failure of the Named Executive Officer to abide by our policies, procedures and codes of conduct.

Change in Control

If there is a merger, acquisition or other change in control of the ownership of Open Text, we may be obligated to provide payments or benefits to the Named Executive Officer. A change in control includes the following events:

 

   

The sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Open Text;

 

   

Any transaction in which any person or group, acquires ownership of more than 50% of the shares of Open Text’s common stock on a fully diluted basis; or

 

   

Any transaction which results in more than 50% of the shares of Open Text’s common stock, on a fully diluted basis, being held by any person or group who were not shareholders of Open Text as of the date of the applicable contract between Open Text and the Named Executive Officer.

 

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Change in the Relationship Between Open Text and the Named Executive Officer

If there is a change in the relationship between Open Text and the Named Executive Officer without the Named Executive Officer’s written consent, we may be obligated to provide payments or benefits to the Named Executive Officer, unless such a change is in connection with the termination of the Named Executive Officer either for cause or due to the death or disability of the Named Executive Officer. Some examples of such a change in the relationship between the Named Executive Officer and Open Text are:

 

   

A change in control described in the previous section which results in a material change of the Named Executive Officer’s position, duties, responsibilities, title or office which were in effect immediately prior to such a change in control (except for a change in any position or duties as an Open Text director or for any other material change that is the result of a promotion), which includes any removal of the Named Executive Officer from, or any failure to re-elect or re-appoint the Named Executive Officer to, any positions or offices he or she held immediately prior to such a change in control;

 

   

A material reduction by either Open Text or by any of Open Text’s subsidiaries of the Named Executive Officer’s salary, benefits or any other form of remuneration payable by either Open Text or by Open Text’s subsidiaries;

 

   

Any material failure by either Open Text or by any of Open Text’s subsidiaries to provide any:

 

   

benefit, bonus, profit sharing, incentive, remuneration or compensation plan,

 

   

stock ownership or purchase plan, or

 

   

pension plan or retirement plan, in which the Named Executive Officer is participating or entitled to participate immediately prior to any change in control described in the previous section, or if Open Text or any of Open Text’s subsidiaries take any action or fail to take any action, and as a result, the Named Executive Officer’s participation in any such plan would be materially and adversely affected or the Named Executive Officer’s rights or benefits under or pursuant to any such plan would be materially and adversely affected; or

 

   

Any other material breach of the employment agreement between Open Text and the Named Executive Officer which is committed by Open Text.

Amounts Payable Upon Termination or Change of Control

If any one of the triggering events described above take place with respect to any of the Named Executive Officers, we may be liable to make the following payments.

John Shackleton

Upon any instance of termination or change in control described above, we are required to pay Mr. John Shackleton an amount equal to 15 months salary. In addition, upon any such event of termination or change in control, we are required to pay Mr. Shackleton the equivalent of 15 months of variable short-term incentive payable to him for achievement of the expected targets for the fiscal year in which the triggering event occurred. We are also required to provide Mr. Shackleton with the employee benefits we provided to Mr. Shackleton immediately prior to the occurrence of the event which triggered our obligation for a period of 15 months after the date when such event occurred. We are required to make these payments and provide these benefits over a period of 15 months from the date of the event which triggered our obligation.

When determining the amounts and the type of compensation and benefits to provide to Mr. Shackleton in the event of a termination or change in control described above, we considered available information with respect to amounts payable to chief executive officers of our principal competitors upon the occurrence of similar events.

 

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In return for receiving the payments and the benefits described in this section, Mr. Shackleton must execute a non-compete, non-solicitation, non-disparagement and confidentiality agreement. The terms of this agreement must last for a period of at least 15 months. We may waive any breach by Mr. Shackleton of any provision of this agreement upon the review and approval of our Board.

P. Thomas Jenkins

Upon any instance of termination or change in control described above, we are required to pay Mr. P. Thomas Jenkins an amount equal to 15 months salary. In addition, upon any such event of termination or change in control, we are required to pay Mr. Jenkins the equivalent of 15 months of variable short-term incentive payable to him for achievement of the expected targets for the fiscal year in which the triggering event occurred. We are also required to provide Mr. Jenkins the employee benefits we provided to Mr. Jenkins immediately prior to the occurrence of the event which triggered our obligation for a period of 15 months after the date when such event occurred. We are required to make these payments and provide these benefits over a period of 15 months from the date of the event which triggered our obligation. With respect to the employment agreement between us and Mr. Jenkins, the term “target annual compensation” refers to the amount of short-term incentive to be paid on achievement of targets.

When determining the amounts and the type of compensation and benefits to provide to Mr. Jenkins in the event of a termination or change in control described above, we considered available information with respect to amounts payable to similarly situated officers of our principal competitors upon the occurrence of similar events.

In return for receiving the payments and the benefits described in this section, Mr. Jenkins must execute a non-compete, non-solicitation, non-disparagement and confidentiality agreement. The terms of this agreement must last for a period of at least 15 months. We may waive any breach by Mr. Jenkins of any provision of this agreement upon the review and approval of our Board.

Paul McFeeters

Upon any instance of termination or change in control described above, we are required to pay Mr. Paul McFeeters an amount equal to six months salary plus one-half times the incentive payment Mr. McFeeters earned for the fiscal year prior to the date of the event which triggered our obligation. In addition, we are required to provide Mr. McFeeters with the employee benefits we provided to Mr. McFeeters immediately prior to the occurrence of the event which triggered our obligation for a period of six months after the date when such event occurred. We are required to make these payments and provide these benefits over a period of six months from the date of the event which triggered our obligation.

When determining the amounts and the type of compensation and benefits to provide to Mr. McFeeters in the event of a termination or change in control described above, we considered available information with respect to amounts payable to chief financial officers of our principal competitors upon the occurrence of similar events.

In return for receiving the payments and the benefits described in this section, Mr. McFeeters must execute a non-compete, non-solicitation, non-disparagement and confidentiality agreement. The terms of this agreement must last for a period of at least six months. We may waive any breach by Mr. McFeeters of any provision of this agreement upon the review and approval of our Board of Directors.

Kirk Roberts

Upon any instance of termination or change in control described above, we are required to pay Mr. Kirk Roberts an amount equal to 12 months salary plus the incentive payment Mr. Roberts earned for the fiscal year prior to the date of the event which triggered our obligation. In addition, we are required to provide Mr. Roberts with the employee benefits we provided to Mr. Roberts immediately prior to the occurrence of the

 

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event which triggered our obligation for a period of 12 months after the date when such event occurred. We are required to make these payments and provide these benefits over a period of 12 months from the date of the event which triggered our obligation.

When determining the amounts and the type of compensation and benefits to provide to Kirk Roberts in the event of a termination or change in control described above, we considered available information with respect to amounts payable to similarly situated officers of our principal competitors upon the occurrence of similar events.

In return for receiving the payments and the benefits described in this section, Mr. Roberts must execute a non-compete, non-solicitation, non-disparagement and confidentiality agreement. The terms of this agreement must last for a period of at least 12 months. We may waive any breach by Mr. Roberts of any provision of this agreement upon the review and approval of our Board.

John Wilkerson

Upon any instance of termination or change in control described above, we are required to pay Mr. John Wilkerson an amount equal to six months salary plus one-half times the incentive payment Mr. Wilkerson earned for the fiscal year prior to the date of the event which triggered our obligation. In addition, we are required to provide Mr. Wilkerson with the employee benefits we provided to Mr. Wilkerson immediately prior to the occurrence of the event which triggered our obligation for a period of six months after the date when such event occurred. We are required to make these payments and provide these benefits over a period of six months from the date of the event which triggered our obligation.

When determining the amounts and the type of compensation and benefits to provide to Mr. Wilkerson in the event of a termination or change in control described above, we considered available information with respect to amounts payable to similarly situated officers of our principal competitors upon the occurrence of similar events.

In return for receiving the payments and the benefits described in this section, Mr. Wilkerson must execute a non-compete, non-solicitation, non-disparagement and confidentiality agreement. The terms of this agreement must last for a period of at least six months. We may waive any breach by Mr. Wilkerson of any provision of this agreement upon the review and approval of our Board.

Quantitative Estimates of Payments upon Termination or Change in Control

Further information regarding payments to our Named Executive Officers in the event of a termination or a change in control may be found in the table below. This table sets forth the estimated amount of payments and other benefits each Named Executive Officer would be entitled to receive upon the occurrence of the indicated event, assuming that the event occurred on June 30, 2007. Amounts potentially payable under plans which are generally available to all salaried employees, such as life and disability insurance, are excluded from the table. The values related to vesting of stock options and awards are based upon the fair market value of our common stock of $21.76 per share as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on June 29, 2007, the last trading day of our fiscal year. The other material assumptions made with respect to the numbers reported in the table below are:

 

   

Payments in Canadian dollars included herein are converted to U.S dollars using an exchange rate of 0.948052;

 

   

The salary and incentive payments are calculated based on the amounts of salary and incentive payments which were payable to each Named Executive Officer as of June 30, 2007; and

 

   

The number of options available for vesting is equal to:

 

   

the number of options outstanding and exercisable as of June 30, 2007, plus

 

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the number of options which were scheduled to be outstanding and exercisable by September 30, 2007, plus

   

with respect only to a change in control in the ownership of Open Text, the number of options which are subject to the acceleration of their vesting dates as a result of such change in control.

Actual payments made at any future date may vary, including the amount the Named Executive Officer would have accrued under the applicable benefit or compensation plan as well as the price of our common shares.

 

         

Salary

($)

   Incentive Payment
($)
   Vesting of
Stock Options
($)
   Employee
Benefits
($)
  

Total

($)

John Shackleton

   Termination Without Cause    $ 500,000    $ 500,000    $ 9,587,450    $ 20,500    $ 10,607,950
   Change in Control    $ 500,000    $ 500,000    $ 9,863,450    $ 20,500    $ 10,883,950
   Change in Relationship    $ 500,000    $ 500,000    $ 9,863,450    $ 20,500    $ 10,883,950

P. Thomas Jenkins

   Termination Without Cause    $ 580,682    $ 580,682    $ 4,814,000    $ 22,990    $ 5,998,354
   Change in Control    $ 580,682    $ 580,682    $ 5,056,000    $ 22,990    $ 6,240,354
   Change in Relationship    $ 580,682    $ 580,682    $ 5,056,000    $ 22,990    $ 6,240,354

Paul McFeeters

   Termination Without Cause    $ 142,208    $ 61,622    $ 387,000    $ 2,370    $ 593,200
   Change in Control    $ 142,208    $ 61,622    $ 1,935,000    $ 2,370    $ 2,141,200
   Change in Relationship    $ 142,208    $ 61,622    $ 1,935,000    $ 2,370    $ 2,141,200

Kirk Roberts

   Termination Without Cause    $ 331,818    $ 113,169    $ 524,025    $ 4,740    $ 973,752
   Change in Control    $ 331,818    $ 113,169    $ 1,302,600    $ 4,740    $ 1,752,327
   Change in Relationship    $ 331,818    $ 113,169    $ 1,302,600    $ 4,740    $ 1,752,327

John Wilkerson

   Termination Without Cause    $ 175,000    $ 66,360    $ —      $ 2,500    $ 243,860
   Change in Control    $ 175,000    $ 66,360    $ 1,425,000    $ 2,500    $ 1,668,860
   Change in Relationship    $ 175,000    $ 66,360    $ 1,425,000    $ 2,500    $ 1,668,860

 

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Director Compensation

The following table sets forth summary information concerning the annual compensation received by each of the non-employee directors of Open Text Corporation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007.

 

    

Fees earned or
paid in cash

($)

 

Stock
Awards

($)

 

Option
Awards

($) (1)

 

Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation

($)

 

Change in Pension Value
and Nonqualified
Deferred Compensation
Earnings

($)

 

All Other
Compensation

($)

   

Total

($)

Randy Fowlie (2)

   $ 46,875   N/A   $ 116,783   —     N/A     —       $ 163,658

Brian Jackman (3)

   $ 44,375   N/A   $ 116,783   —     N/A     —       $ 161,158

Ken Olisa (4)

   $ 35,750   N/A   $ 116,783   —     N/A     —       $ 152,533

Stephen Sadler (5)

   $ 22,500   N/A   $ 116,783   —     N/A   $ 420,000 (8)   $ 559,283

Michael Slaunwhite (6)

   $ 35,625   N/A   $ 116,783   —     N/A     —       $ 152,408

Gail Hamilton (7)

   $ 25,000   N/A   $ 59,267   —     N/A     —       $ 84,267

Carol Gavin (9)

   $ 16,250   N/A   $ —     —     N/A     —       $ 16,250

Peter Hoult (9)

   $ 10,000   N/A   $ —     —     N/A     —       $ 10,000

(1) Grant date fair values are computed in accordance with SFAS 123R. For a detailed description of the assumptions made in the valuation of our stock options, see Note 11 “Share Capital, Option Plan and Share-based Payments” in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, under Item 8 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(2) As of June 30, 2007 Mr. Fowlie has 146,500 options outstanding.
(3) As of June 30, 2007 Mr. Jackman has 48,000 options outstanding.
(4) As of June 30, 2007 Mr. Olisa has 48,000 options outstanding.
(5) As of June 30, 2007 Mr. Sadler has 272,000 options outstanding.
(6) As of June 30, 2007 Mr. Slaunwhite has 166,000 options outstanding.
(7) As of June 30, 2007 Ms. Hamilton has 12,000 options outstanding. Ms Hamilton was elected as a director at our Annual meeting of shareholders on December 7, 2006.
(8) During fiscal 2007, Mr. Stephen Sadler, received approximately $420,000 in consulting fees for assistance with acquisition-related business activities. Mr. Sadler abstained from voting on all transactions from which he would potentially derive consulting fees.
(9) Ms. Gavin and Mr. Hoult retired as directors on December 7, 2006.

Directors who are salaried officers or employees receive no compensation for serving as directors. Our non-employee directors receive an annual retainer fee of $20,000 and an additional $1,250 for each meeting attended, including committee meetings, except for Audit Committee members who receive $1,875 for each Audit Committee meeting attended. The Chairmen of the committees of the Board are paid the following annual retainer fees: $7,500 (Audit Committee); $7,000 (Compensation Committee); and $5,000 (Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee). In Fiscal 2007, our non-employee directors each received 12,000 options to acquire our Common Shares. The independent lead director in addition to fees received as described above, receives an annual retainer of $7,000. We reimburse all directors for all reasonable expenses incurred by them in their capacity as directors.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

The members of our Compensation Committee are Messrs. Ken Olisa, and Ms Gail Hamilton. None of the members of the Compensation Committee have been or are an officer or employee of Open Text Corporation, or any of our subsidiaries, or had any relationship requiring disclosure herein. None of our executive officers served as a member of the compensation committee of another entity (or other committee of the board of directors performing equivalent functions, or in the absence of any such committee, the entire board) one of whose executive officers served as a director of ours.

 

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Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

The following table sets forth certain information as of July 31, 2007 regarding Common Shares beneficially owned by the following persons or companies: (i) each person or company known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding Common Shares, (ii) each director and proposed director of our company, (iii) each Named Executive Officer, and (iv) all directors and executive officers as a group. Except as otherwise indicated, we believe that the beneficial owners of the Common Shares listed below have sole investment and voting power with respect to such Common Shares, subject to community property laws where applicable.

The number and percentage of shares beneficially owned is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC, and is not necessarily indicative of beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Under these rules, beneficial ownership includes any shares as to which a person has sole or shared voting on investment power and also any shares of Common Shares underlying options or warrants that are exercisable by that person within 60 days of July 31, 2007. However, these shares underlying options and warrants are not treated as outstanding for the purposes of computing the percentage ownership of any other person or entity. Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each person or entity named in the table is “care of” Open Text Corporation, 275 Frank Tompa Drive, Waterloo Ontario, Canada, N2L-0A1.

 

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner

 

Amount and Nature of

Beneficial Ownership

 

Percent of Common

Shares Outstanding

 

FMR Corp. (1)(a)

82 Devonshire Street

Boston, Massachusetts, 02109

  8,990,948   18.00 %

Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (1)(b)

1000 place Jean-Paul-Riopelle

Montreal Quebec CA H2Z 2B3

  6,372,305   13.00 %

Beutel, Goodman & Company (1)(c)

20 Eglinton Avenue West, Suite 2000

Toronto, Ontario, M4R 1K8

  6,210,838   12.67 %

AMVESCAP PLC (1)(d)

30 Finsbury Square

London, England UK EC2A-1AG

  4,718,100   9.61 %

Franklin Resources (1)(e)

1 Franklin Parkway

San Mateo, California USA 94403-1906

  3,557,699   7.30 %

Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management Ltd. (1)(f)

200 Burrard Street, 21st floor

Vancouver, British Columbia CA V6C 3N5

  3,497,768   7.10 %

TAL Global Asset Management Inc (1)(g)

1000 de la Gauchetiere West, Suite 3100

Montreal Quebec CA H3B 4W5

  2,876,225   5.80 %

RBC Asset Management Inc (1)(h)

Royal Trust Tower, Suite 3800

77 King Street West, 6th floor

Toronto, Ontario CA M5K 1H1

  2,703,883   5.58 %

The Royal Trust Company (1)(i)

Royal Trust Tower, P.O Box 7500 Station A

77 King Street West, 6th floor

Toronto, Ontario CA M5W 1P9

  2,659,333   5.49 %

 

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Name and Address of Beneficial Owner

 

Amount and Nature of

Beneficial Ownership

 

Percent of Common

Shares Outstanding

 

UBS AG (1)(j)

Bahnhofstrasse 45

PO Box CH-8021

Zurich, Switzerland

  2,488,356   5.10 %

P. Thomas Jenkins (2)

  1,571,100   3.00 %

John Shackleton (3)

  760,758   1.45 %

Stephen J. Sadler (4)

  637,900   1.22 %

Michael Slaunwhite (5)

  160,000   *  

Randy Fowlie (6)

  138,000   *  

Brian Jackman (7)

  48,000   *  

Ken Olisa (8)

  36,000   *  

Gail Hamilton

  —     *  

Kirk Roberts (9)

  130,472   *  

Paul McFeeters (10)

  50,000   *  

John Wilkerson (11)

  75,000   *  

All executive officers and directors as a group (12)

  3,816,401   7.26 %

 * Less than 1%
(1) Based on information filed in Schedule 13G or Schedule 13G/A with the SEC.
  (a) Sole voting power for 4,108,866 Common Shares and sole dispositive power for 8,990,948 Common Shares.
  (b) Sole voting power and sole dispositive power for 6,372,305 Common Shares.
  (c) Sole voting power for 5,525,338 Common Shares and sole dispositive power for 6,210,838 Common Shares.
  (d) Sole voting power and sole dispositive power for 4,718,100 Common Shares.
  (e) Sole voting power for 3,537,999 Common Shares and sole dispositive power for 3,557,699 Common Shares.
  (f) Sole voting power and sole dispositive power for 3,497,768 Common Shares.
  (g) Sole voting power for 2,836,500 Common Shares and sole dispositive power for 2,876,225 Common Shares.
  (h) Shared voting power and shared dispositive power for 2,703,883 Common Shares.
  (i) Shared voting power and shared dispositive power for 2,659,333 Common Shares.
  (j) Sole voting power for 1,769,156 Common Shares and sole dispositive power for 2,488,356 Common Shares.

 

(2) Includes 1,021,100 Common Shares owned and options for 550,000 Common Shares which are vested.
(3) Includes 30,396 Common Shares owned, options for 710,362 Common Shares which are vested and options for 20,000 Common Shares which will vest within 60 days of July 31, 2007.
(4) Includes 377,900 Common Shares owned and options for 260,000 Common Shares which are vested.
(5) Includes 6,000 Common Shares owned and options for 154,000 which are vested.
(6) Includes 3,500 Common Shares owned and options for 134,500 Common Shares which are vested.
(7) Includes 12,000 Common Shares owned and options for 36,000 Common Shares which are vested.
(8) Includes options for 36,000 Common Shares which are vested.
(9) Includes 27,972 Common Shares owned, options for 72,500 Common Shares which are vested and options for 30,000 Common Shares which will vest within 60 days of July 31, 2007.
(10) Includes options for 50,000 Common Shares which are vested
(11) Includes options for 75,000 Common Shares which will vest within 60 days of July 31, 2007.
(12) Includes 1,487,289 Common Shares owned, options for 2,185,862 Common Shares which are vested and options for 143,250 Common Shares which will vest within 60 days of July 31, 2007.

 

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Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans

The following table sets forth summary information relating to our various stock option plans as of June 30, 2007:

 

Plan Category

  

Number of securities

to be issued upon exercise

of outstanding options,

warrants, and rights

  

Weighted average

exercise price
of outstanding options,

warrants, and rights

  

Number of securities

remaining available

for future issuance

under equity
compensation plans
(excluding securities
reflected in column a)

     (a)    (b)    (c)

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders

   3,065,367    $ 12.23    1,299,470

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders

   —        —      —  
                

Total

   3,065,367    $ 12.23    1,299,470
                

 

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

Please see “All Other Compensation” in the Director Compensation table included under Item 11 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, for details of our related party transactions.

We have adopted a policy that all transactions between us and our officers, directors and affiliates will be approved by a majority of the “independent” members of our audit committee.

 

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

Aggregate fees for professional services rendered by KPMG LLP for Fiscal 2007 and Fiscal 2006 are:

Audit Fees

Audit fees were approximately $2,526,773 for Fiscal 2007 and $1,962,665 for Fiscal 2006. Such fees were for professional services rendered for (a) the annual audits of the Company’s consolidated financial statements and the accompanying attestation report regarding the Company’s internal control over financial reporting contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and (b) the review of quarterly financial information included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.

Audit-Related Fees

Audit-related fees were approximately $306,053 for Fiscal 2007 and $597,065 for Fiscal 2006. Audit-related fees include services related to (a) filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and (b) statutory audits.

Tax Fees

The total fees for tax services were approximately $31,361 for Fiscal 2007 and $151,645 for Fiscal 2006. These fees were for services related to (a) tax compliance, including the preparation of tax returns, tax planning and tax advice, (b) advice related to mergers and acquisitions, and (c) requests for rulings or technical advice from tax authorities.

All Other Fees

There were no fees for any other services rendered by KPMG LLP for Fiscal 2007 and 2006.

 

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The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has determined that the provision of the services as set out above is compatible with maintaining KPMG LLP’s independence.

Pre-Approval Policy

The Audit Committee has established a policy of reviewing, in advance, and either approving or disapproving, all audit, audit-related, tax and other non-audit service that any independent public or certified public accountant proposes to provide to us. This policy requires that all services received from our independent accountants be approved in advance by either the Audit Committee or a delegate of the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee has delegated the pre-approval responsibility to the Chairperson of the Audit Committee. Every audit, audit-related, tax and all other services that KPMG provided us in Fiscal 2007 was pre-approved. All non-audit services provided were reviewed with the Audit Committee, which concluded that the provision of such services by KPMG was compatible with the maintenance of KPMG’s independence in the conduct of its auditing functions.

 

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PART IV

 

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

a) The following documents are filed as a part of this report:

1) Consolidated financial statements and Reports of Independent Accountants and the related notes thereto are included under Item 8, in Part II.

2) See Note 8 in the Consolidated Financial Statements included under Item 8, Part II.

3) Exhibits: The following exhibits are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

Exhibit

Number

  

Description of Exhibit

  3.1    Articles of Incorporation of the Company. (1)
  3.2    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company. (1)
  3.3    Articles of Amendment of the Company. (1)
  3.4    By-law No. 1 of the Company. (1)
  3.5    Articles of Amendment of the Company. (1)
  3.6    By-law No. 2 of the Company. (1)
  3.7    By-law No. 3 of the Company. (1)
  3.8    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company. (1)
  3.9    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2001. (4)
  3.10    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2002. (5)
  3.11    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2003. (6)
  3.12    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2004. (7)
  3.13    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2005. (8)
  3.14    Open Text Corporation By-law, dated December 15, 2005. (10)
  3.15    Articles of Continuance of the Company , dated December 29, 2005. (10)
  4.1    Form of Common Share Certificate. (1)
10.1    Restated 1995 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan. (3)
10.2    1995 Replacement Stock Option Plan. (1)
10.3    1995 Supplementary Stock Option Plan. (1)
10.4    1995 Directors Stock Option Plan. (1)
10.5    Amendment to Agreement, dated June 27, 1997 between INSO Corporation and the Company. (2)
10.6    1998 Stock Option Plan. (3)
10.7    Indemnity Agreement with Robert Hoog dated April 30, 2004. (7)
10.8    Indemnity Agreement with Hartmut Schaper dated April 30, 2004. (7)
10.9    Indemnity Agreement with Walter Koehler dated August 8, 2005. (8)
10.10    Indemnity Agreement with Peter Lipps dated August 19, 2005. (8)
10.11    2004 Employee Stock Option Plan. (8)

 

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Exhibit

Number

  

Description of Exhibit

10.12    Artesia Stock Option Plan. (8)
10.13    Vista Stock Option Plan. (8)
10.14    Employment Agreement, dated September 23, 2005 between P. Thomas Jenkins and the Company. (8)
10.15    Employment Agreement, dated September 23, 2005 between John Shackleton and the Company. (8)
10.16    Employment Agreement, dated September 23, 2005 between Alan Hoverd and the Company. (8)
10.17    Employment Agreement, dated November 30, 1997 between Anik Ganguly and the Company. (8)
10.18    Employment Agreement, dated October 23, 2003 between John Kirkham and the Company. (8)
10.19    Employment Agreement, dated November 4, 2004 between John Kirkham and the Company. (9)
10.20    Demand operating credit facility between the Company and Royal Bank of Canada, dated February 2, 2006. (10)
10.21    Employment Agreement, dated May 3, 2006 between Paul J McFeeters and the Company. (11)
10.22    Employment Agreement, dated June 30, 2006 between Kirk Roberts and the Company. (12)
10.23    Employment Agreement, dated June 30, 2006 between Tony Preston and the Company. (12)
10.24    Employment Agreement, dated July 17, 2006 between John Wilkerson and the Company. (12)
10.25    Arrangement Agreement between the Company, 6575064 Canada Inc., and Hummingbird Ltd., dated August 4, 2006. (12)
10.26    “Form of” Indemnity Agreement between the Company and certain of its officers dated September 7, 2006. (12)
10.27    Open Text Corporation Long- Term Incentive Plan dated September 10, 2007. (13)
21.2    List of the Company’s Subsidiaries as of July 12, 2007.
23.1    Consent of Independent Registered Accounting Firm.
24.1    Power of Attorney (contained on Signature Page).
31.1    Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2    Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1    Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2    Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

(1) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 (Registration Number 33-98858) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 1, 1995 or Amendments 1, 2 or 3 thereto (filed on December 28, 1995, January 22, 1996 and January 23, 1996 respectively), and incorporated herein by reference.
(2) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on June 16, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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(3) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on August 20, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference.
(4) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 28, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference.
(5) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 28, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference.
(6) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 29, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference.
(7) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 13, 2004 and incorporated herein by reference.
(8) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 27, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference.
(9) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference.
(10) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on February 3, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference.
(11) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on May 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference.
(12) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 12, 2006.
(13) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on September 13, 2007.

b) Exhibits

We hereby file as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K the exhibits listed in 15(a)(3) above. Exhibits which are incorporated by reference can be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained by the Commission at 100 F Street, N.E., 1st Floor, Washington D.C. Copies of such materials can also be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the Commission, 100 F Street, N.E., 1st Floor, Washington D.C. 20549 at prescribed rates.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

        OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
Date: September 13, 2007   By:  

/s/    JOHN SHACKLETON        

   

John Shackleton

President and Chief Executive Officer

   

/s/    PAUL MCFEETERS        

   

Paul McFeeters

Chief Financial Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

The undersigned officers and directors of Open Text Corporation hereby constitute and appoint John Shackleton and Paul McFeeters, and each of them singly, with full power of substitution, our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents to sign for us in our names in the capacities indicated below any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K and to file same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of the said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute(s), may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    JOHN SHACKLETON        

John Shackleton

  

Director, President and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)

  September 13, 2007

/s/    PAUL MCFEETERS        

Paul McFeeters

  

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

  September 13, 2007

/s/    P. THOMAS JENKINS        

P. Thomas Jenkins

  

Director, Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer

  September 13, 2007

/s/    RANDY FOWLIE        

Randy Fowlie

  

Director

  September 13, 2007

/s/    GAIL HAMILTON        

Gail Hamilton

  

Director

  September 13, 2007

/s/    BRIAN JACKMAN        

Brian Jackman

  

Director

  September 13, 2007

/s/    KEN OLISA        

Ken Olisa

  

Director

  September 13, 2007

/s/     STEPHEN J. SADLER        

Stephen J. Sadler

  

Director

  September 13, 2007

/s/    MICHAEL SLAUNWHITE        

Michael Slaunwhite

  

Director

  September 13, 2007

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

  

Description of Exhibit

  3.1      Articles of Incorporation of the Company. (1)
  3.2      Articles of Amalgamation of the Company. (1)
  3.3      Articles of Amendment of the Company. (1)
  3.4      By-law No. 1 of the Company. (1)
  3.5      Articles of Amendment of the Company. (1)
  3.6      By-law No. 2 of the Company. (1)
  3.7      By-law No. 3 of the Company. (1)
  3.8      Articles of Amalgamation of the Company. (1)
  3.9      Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2001. (4)
  3.10    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2002. (5)
  3.11    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2003. (6)
  3.12    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2004. (7)
  3.13    Articles of Amalgamation of the Company, dated July 1, 2005. (8)
  3.14    Open Text Corporation By-law, dated December 15, 2005. (10)
  3.15    Articles of Continuance of the Company , dated December 29, 2005. (10)
  4.1      Form of Common Share Certificate. (1)
10.1      Restated 1995 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan. (3)
10.2      1995 Replacement Stock Option Plan. (1)
10.3      1995 Supplementary Stock Option Plan. (1)
10.4      1995 Directors Stock Option Plan. (1)
10.5      Amendment to Agreement, dated June 27, 1997 between INSO Corporation and the Company. (2)
10.6      1998 Stock Option Plan. (3)
10.7      Indemnity Agreement with Robert Hoog dated April 30, 2004. (7)
10.8      Indemnity Agreement with Hartmut Schaper dated April 30, 2004. (7)
10.9      Indemnity Agreement with Walter Koehler dated August 8, 2005. (8)
10.10    Indemnity Agreement with Peter Lipps dated August 19, 2005. (8)
10.11    2004 Employee Stock Option Plan. (8)
10.12    Artesia Stock Option Plan. (8)
10.13    Vista Stock Option Plan. (8)
10.14   

Employment Agreement, dated September 23, 2005 between P. Thomas Jenkins and the
Company. (8)

 

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Exhibit

Number

  

Description of Exhibit

10.15    Employment Agreement, dated September 23, 2005 between John Shackleton and the Company. (8)
10.16    Employment Agreement, dated September 23, 2005 between Alan Hoverd and the Company. (8)
10.17    Employment Agreement, dated November 30, 1997 between Anik Ganguly and the Company. (8)
10.18    Employment Agreement, dated October 23, 2003 between John Kirkham and the Company. (8)
10.19    Employment Agreement, dated November 4, 2004 between John Kirkham and the Company. (9)
10.20    Demand operating credit facility between the Company and Royal Bank of Canada, dated February 2, 2006. (10)
10.21    Employment Agreement, dated May 3, 2006 between Paul J McFeeters and the Company. (11)
10.22    Employment Agreement, dated June 30, 2006 between Kirk Roberts and the Company. (12)
10.23    Employment Agreement, dated June 30, 2006 between Tony Preston and the Company. (12)
10.24    Employment Agreement, dated July 17, 2006 between John Wilkerson and the Company. (12)
10.25    Arrangement Agreement between the Company, 6575064 Canada Inc., and Hummingbird Ltd., dated August 4, 2006. (12)
10.26    “Form of” Indemnity Agreement between the Company and certain of its officers dated September 7, 2006. (12)
10.27    Open Text Corporation Long- Term Incentive Plan dated September 10, 2007. (13)
21.2      List of the Company’s Subsidiaries as of July 12, 2007.
23.1      Consent of Independent Registered Accounting Firm.
24.1      Power of Attorney (contained on Signature Page).
31.1      Certification of the Chief Executive Officer, pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2      Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1      Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2      Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

(1) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-1 (Registration Number 33-98858) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 1, 1995 or Amendments 1, 2 or 3 thereto (filed on December 28, 1995, January 22, 1996 and January 23, 1996 respectively), and incorporated herein by reference.
(2) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on June 16, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference.
(3) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on August 20, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference.
(4) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 28, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference.
(5) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 28, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

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(6) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 29, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference.
(7) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 13, 2004 and incorporated herein by reference.
(8) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 27, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference.
(9) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on November 9, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference.
(10) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on February 3, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference.
(11) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on May 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference.
(12) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on September 12, 2006.
(13) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 8-K, as filed with the SEC on September 13, 2007.

 

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