[Cialug] Open source for Crystal Report???

[David Champion]

Most of the the reporting I've done under Linux has been either 
generating PDF's or text output from a PHP web application.

If you search on freshmeat.net for "report" there appear to be a lot of 
options for report writers. I don't know that any of them are going to 
have all of the features of Crystal Reports.

You can also use a combination of Linux and Windows applications. For 
instance we use the MyODBC connector to allow Windows applications 
written in Visual FoxPro to talk to MySQL databases on Linux servers - 
which are also being used by PHP web applications.

You can go the other way too - for instance PHP on a Linux server can 
connect to a MS-SQL server using the freeTDS libriaries.

Another option might be to look into Borland's Kylix - a development 
environment similar to VB, but it uses a Pascal-like language. I'll let 
others on this list more experienced in Kylix give you more info on that.

-dc

Elizabeth Murray wrote:
> HI.  New to the group and new to Linux.   
> 
> Do you know if there is an open source or Linux substitute for Chrystal
> Report?
> 
> One of the guys on my web team is wanting to replace all of our MS IIS
> sites with Linux.  We got hacked last week.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Liz M
> 
> V. Elizabeth Murray, CNE5, CNE6, MCP
> Information Technology Specialist V
> Air Quality Bureau
> Iowa Department of Natural Resources
> 515-281-8565
> elizabeth.murray@dnr.state.ia.us