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  1. Do you have any job opportunities? Can I send you a resumé?
    Unfortunately, we are not actively looking to hire any new people at this time. However, if you think you have complementary skills that could help us to grow as a company, please send us your resumé.
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  2. Can I be a beta tester?
    Maybe. Our beta tester selection process is very deliberate; we try and select our beta testers carefully so that we're not wasting anybody's time, yours and ours. We're looking for people who can provide us with feedback quickly and clearly, who use different hardware and software from our other testers, and who are willing to send us their personal data if it's needed for debugging.

    If you want to be a beta tester, the best way to catch our eye is to be active in our user forums. We often ask active participants on the user forums if they can help us test particular features and new products. Alternatively, you can, of course, simply drop us an e-mail.
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  3. When is the next release coming and what are the new features?
    We try not to announce precise timelines or feature lists for future releases, as we are a small software company with limited development resources; if one of us should happen to get the sniffles, or if there are other outside factors we need to devote our limited time to, it can easily impact our intended development schedules.

    In planning releases, we try to strike a balance among:

    (1) responding to customer requests,
    (2) the needs of our partners,
    (3) supporting new operating systems features,
    (4) providing consistent features across the product line,
    (5) working efficiently within the structure of the code, (similar features often get handled at the same time),
    (6) various business needs.

    We cannot make any assumptions on how those various factors will impact our daily workflow; in fact, it's often impossible to predict the final release date accurately when we start new projects. We try to plan our releases with a long term perspective so that they ultimately serve the needs of our customers, even if they don't necessarily get in everyone's favorite feature request every time.
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  4. Any chance of a Windows versions of your products?
    We're very commited to Mac OS X and the superior Cocoa environment. For most of our applications, porting them to Windows would take longer than it would to rewrite them from scratch on the Mac.

    While we're always re-evaluating the possibility of expanding our reach to the Windows world, there is a solution for Windows users now. Read on!

    Users of DEVONthink Pro Office can, in addition, share their database with users of other operating systems using the Web sharing feature.
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  5. Is the documentation available in my language?
    The online and PDF documentation is only available in English at the moment. Localizing documentation and other text-intensive materials to Deutsch, Francais, etc. is cost-intensive and error-prone so that we have decided to concentrate our resources on developing stable, robust, and feature-rich software. We will have localizations of the online help etc. as soon as we feel we have the necessary resources.
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  6. Why are your applications not compatible with my pre-release version of Mac OS X?
    In the past, we've noted that compatibility issues with a new major release of the operating system are usually resolved by Apple in the final stages before its release, and don't require any action on our part. If you are already using a pre-release version of Mac OS X, please check if our applications work with a newer pre-release, or wait until it reaches the release candidate status. We will then make all necessary adjustments for making our apps run on the first official release of the new version of Mac OS X.
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  7. Where does the name DEVONtechnologies come from?

    "Devonian (after Devon County, England), the geologic period from 410 to 360 million years ago. Also called the Reptile Age or Age of Fishes. First amphibians appeared on the land, that until then was only inhabited by trees and other plants -- it was the departure into a new age."

    Named after the Devonian period, the DEVONtechnology marks the departure into a new age of data processing.

    Side note: Ray Troll has even created a song with a nice video clip about this extremely important evolution step.


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