[ale] Crystal Reports: alternatives?

[John Wells]

Greg,

Thanks for the info.

They'd like the ability to modify the reports themselves, so I may come up
with a little system using xml templates if they want to go that route. 
For what they're doing, I suspect php's pdflib may work ok, but that
requires a license as well.

I'm going to run some benchmarks with Jasper Reports and see what it can
handle.  We'll see.

Thanks,
John


Greg said:
> 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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