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Important Information on the Open Text Developer Program
Update
As the last stage of winding down this site, we will no longer permit logins as of February 19th, 2010. Paid subscribers of the old Captaris Developer Program are strongly encouraged to migrate to the new Open Text Developer Network site by following the instructions on the bottom of this page for migrating your account. Unpaid members of the site may migrate over to our forums on the Open Text Communities site. Instructions for migrating to that site are also at the bottom of this page.
Please Read
As most of you know, last year Captaris was acquired
by the Open Text Corporation. As you might expect, as we've been
incorporated into Open Text, a number of changes have been made in our
product offerings and the systems we use to support those offerings.
It
is with that in mind, last week we announced a series of changes we
are making to the former Captaris Developer Program. Many of these
changes were prompted by requests from customers, but others were
driven by our desire to use existing Open Text systems as much as
possible. The key changes are:
- Effective
December 31st, 2009, we will be shutting this portal down and asking
users to migrate two other portals. If you are a paid subscriber to
the Developer Program, you will be migrating to the Open Text Developer
Network portal, where you will have access to the full array of
development resources we have on this site. If you are a Registered
(free) user of this portal, we will be asking you to create a userid on
our Open Text Communities site where you will be able to interact with
other developers, but not have access to developer resources such as
API documentation or code samples/
- We
will be moving all API documentation out of the Developer
Program/Network sites and moving them to the regular product
documentation areas of the Open Text Knowledge Center. We have
documentation for other APIs such as our XML and Java APIs in the
documentation area already and wanted to have the documentation
available in a consistent manner.
- One
issue we had heard a lot on was the developer editions and customers
asking for ways to make them more flexible. To that end, we are making
several changes to the developer editions
- We
are removing the developer editions as an entitlement of the Developer
Network and are allowing anyone to purchase a developer edition.
Membership in the Developer Network is no longer required to obtain a
developer edition of any of the products. For pricing and ordering
details, please contact your authorized Open Text Fax and Document
Distribution reseller.
- Developer
Editions can now be in any configuration rather than the previous fixed
configuration. If a customer requires a larger full featured
development environment, this is now possible in the same manner that
you would configure one of our other products
- Developer
Editions are now permanent licenses rather than one year licenses.
Previously customers who wanted to continue using a Developer Edition
were required to renew their membership in the Developer Program. The
new Developer Editions are permanent licenses that do not need to be
renewed.
- Support Plans are now
available on Developer Editions. Previously, technical support an
upgrades were not available on Developer Editions. The new structure
of the Developer Editions allows customers to purchase an Open Text
Standard Support plan for their Developer Editions and receive the full
range of benefits that the support plans provide.
- The
Developer Editions are now available for the current versions of all
products. This includes Open Text Fax Server, RightFax Edition 9.4,
Open Text Document Server, Alchemy Edition 8.3 and Open Text Workflow
Server, .NET Edition 6.5
Complete details of the new Developer network can be found at http://faxsolutions.opentext.com/common/files/Data_Sheet_FDDG_Developer_Program_proof.pdf
Instructions for migrating your account
If you have a paid subscription to the Open Text Developer Program on this site, you can use your Open Text Knowledge Center account to access the new Open Text Developer Network
site. We will need to authorize you to see the Fax and Document
Distribution Group (new name within Open Text for Captaris), so please
email your userid to fddgdeveloper@opentext.com and we will verify your membership and email you a link to the new portal. If
you don't already have a userid on the Open Text Knowledge Center,
there are links on the right side of the page to request them.
If you are a registered (free) subscriber to the Developer Program, you can continue interacting with other developers in the Fax Server forums on the Open Text Communities
site. Create a userid on the Communities site (free and open to all),
and then follow the link here to the Fax Server Forums. The Fax Server
Forums, in spite of their name, apply to Open Text Document Server and
Open Text Workflow Server as well.
If you have questions about these changes, feel free to post questions in the thread in the General Discussions forum or email us at fddgdeveloper@opentext.com
Thanks
Bob Tennant
Sr. Program Manager
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