Re: reporting tools

On 8/23/2007 5:16 AM Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Phoenix Kiula wrote on 23.08.2007 10:42:
>> On 23/08/07, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of CR, but it's worked with PostgreSQL
>>> for quite some time now. We had it hitting a pg7.2 db back in the
>>> day, when hip kids road around in rag top roadsters and wore tshirts
>>> with cigarettes rolled in their sleeves.
>>>
>>> Also, look at Pentaho. It's open source and pretty good.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks. Pentaho looks good. But are there any alternatives that don't
>> require me to spend days installing the whole Java shebang?
>
> If you don't need a server-based solution, you might want to look at
> iReport designer.
>
> Although it is also Java based it only needs a runtime environment on
> the client (not sure if that qualifies for "whole shebang" for you as
> well):

This is specifically why we released OpenRPT as open source - it's very lightweight, no Java required. http://sf.net/projects/openrpt

Cheers,
Ned

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