[Cialug] Open source for Crystal Report???

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I use the MYODBC connector over stunnel on a fairly wide scale to allow
people using MS Office to do mail-merge's labels, excel imports, etc.  

It works really well for them and is very transparent. 


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:02, David Champion wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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