[Cialug] Open source alternative to Crystal Reports?

[David Champion]

Apparently you n00bs have never heard of freshmeat.net??? ;)

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=crystal+reports&submit=Search

-dc

john doe wrote:
> There are a couple of options, both of which I've used over the
> years--both for personal and work DWs.
>
> Pentaho (http://pentaho.com/) is the first. Not too bad, but previous
> versions have been a bit kludgy.  Haven't tried the current.
>
> Jaspersoft (http://www.jaspersoft.com/)--as mentioned by Josh--is the
> other option.  They've also just released a new version, but haven't tried
> it yet.  I do like Jaspersoft a bit better; seemed smoother.
>
> The one "personally untested so market-speak warning" feature of the
> new/current Jaspersoft release--which may make it a more viable
> solution--is the multi-tenant/SaaS capabilities out of the box.  I've
> not seen this in the current Pentaho release, but YMMV.
>
> Finally, you can just wander over to SourceForge and type "Crystal
> Reports" in the search box, and see what comes up.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 5 May 2009, Tim Wilson wrote:
>
>   
>> The company I work for is looking for an external reporting engine.
>>  Initially we looked at Crystal Reports, but unfortunately it looks like it
>> is Windows only.  One key point is it would have to allow us to redistribute
>> the report generator.  Our staff and our customers will be creating reports.
>>  For the reports that we create and send to our customers, they will need a
>> way to actually run the report.  That would probably mean a redistributable
>> executable that reads the report format file(s), reads the database, and
>> generates the desired report.  Are there any open source alternatives to
>> Crystal?
>>
>> --
>> Tim
>> Required reading: http://bccplease.com/
>>
>>     
>
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