Looking for a reporting solution for .Net

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Published Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:05 AM by RoyOsherove
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Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:48 AM by Marc LaFleur

# re: Looking for a reporting solution for .Net

What do you mean by it "sucks payment wise"?

I have to select a reporting solution next week as well, but I didn't see anything with Crystal that I needed other than the one time price to purchase Crystal Developer. But I'm assuming I missed something in the fine print.
Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:01 AM by Roy Osherove

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From what I understand, you have royalty payments for each distribution of your product that contains reports. So, you pay for each customer you have as well.
http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/popups/licensing.htm
Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:57 AM by Paul Wilson

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We just chose Active Reports for .NET (from Data Dynamics). It was definitely cheaper than Crystal in the long run, but it also had some features we liked better, like Xml report definitions and the ability to "brand" the end-user report designer. Other options that were considered were a reporting package from ComponentOne and report add-in for SQL Server. The report add-in for SQL is still in beta, so it wasn't even a possible factor for us, and Active Reports simply has a great history with lots of success stories that the one from ComponentOne couldn't match. I also saw a few others, but they failed obvious criteria and were not considered any further, so I don't even recall their names now.
Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:04 AM by Roy Osherove

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Excellent! Thanks Paul. You certainly eased my mind in this issue. It's very strange that so few solutiong exist...
Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:31 AM by SBC

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Hang in there Roy - SQL2K Reporting Services is coming soon. :)
I'd go with ActiveReports (it also has better support than Crystal).
Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:33 AM by SBC

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There's a list at ComponentSource:
http://www.componentsource.com/Catalog/DatabaseReportingComponents.htm
Monday, September 22, 2003 2:39 PM by Chris Frazier

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+1 for ActiveReports. Support is great, and the reports are highly customizeable - you can make 'em purty.
Monday, September 22, 2003 3:27 PM by Roy Osherove

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Done! I've recommended it today to my boss. Thanks for all your help guys :)
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:36 AM by Arman Eshraghi

# re: Looking for a reporting solution for .Net

LGX Report is a free reporting system for creating web-based reports. .NET and XML-based. (http://www.FreeReporting.com)