The difference between Stonefield Query (and FoxFire) and Crystal Reports or SQL Reporting Services is the target audience. The former are intended for end-users to create their own reports while the latter are for developers or IT staff. I've see countless times the problems of putting developer tools in the hands of secretaries, sales managers, VPs, etc.

Hi, Doug,

That's not exactly true regarding SSRS Report Builder (part of SSRS), a product that wasn't very good until recently with Report Builder 3.0, is targeted towards non-developer types. There's a large body of workers between developers and the user types you mentioned - and that's information workers - and they can be fairly productive with Report Builder.

(And even for that matter, there actually are a few information workers out there who use SSRS....yes, power users who have BIDS and create SSRS reports, with a little setup help from developers).