[ale] Crystal Reports: alternatives?

[Greg]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: depends on what you want.

I spent an 8 hr day looking about a yr. ago (when I was employed) and found
1 or 2 Java based reporting apps.  There are several industry specific apps
that do reporting, but that was it.  Microsoft bought up (or became a
majority owner) of Crystal and found out that they were the only game in
town so they upped the server fees accordingly.  Especially when they found
out the scope of usage in a mega-corporation and on networks.

OTOH, this could be seen as an opportunity for a web developer to write them
(web based reports) custom made for a company - which I have done.  Since
any report app that you are looking for is heavily OS dependant, I doubt
that one could be made, since there are a a lot of different server/OS
combinations.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Wells
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:12 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Crystal Reports: alternatives?
>
>
> Took a look at Crystal Reports support for linux....very limited.
> Essentially, you have to buy a Enterprise license (approx. $10,000 to
> $100,000).  This gives you an Apache module that will basically do a pass
> through to a Windows-based application server.  I wouldn't exactly call
> that "good support".
>
> Anyway, I've asked before and didn't get any replies, but thought I'd give
> it another go.  Is anyone aware of viable alternatives to Crystal Reports
> for linux?  I'm currently looking at Jasper Reports
> [http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net] (anyone with good/bad experiences
> please let me know), but hope there're a few more options to choose from.
> Googling is getting me nowhere so far, but that's not always a good
> indicator of existence.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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