>>just curious... do people still use crystal?
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>I haven't seen any polls in years.
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>Back around 2005/2006, there was a developer poll that had Crystal at about 50-55% of the developer market (for reporting), and SSRS was somewhere around 20%.
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>But since then SSRS has picked up huge ground. SSRS got better, and Crystal lost fans with their licensing and their overall customer relationship model.
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>I haven't touched Crystal since around 2009.
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>My 2 cents - places with a long history of .NET/VB development are probably more likely continuing with Crystal, because they have such a huge investment in it. I still see job ads that list Crystal as a requirement
>Newer .NET/SQL development is much more likely going with SSRS.

Agreed. MS is closing the feature gap quickly and the SSRS integration with .NET and SQL Server is a lot more seamless.
ACCPAC (now Sage) uses CR as its reporting tool and that locks in a lot of users.
I knew some people who made a pretty good living just doing CR for ACCPAC users.
I'll be interested to see whether SAP - CR's new owner - does something similar with CR.