Wow, their web site (Crystal Decisions) is of NO help whatsoever in the matter. However, there is NO WAY the licensing cost is $1000 per user for the web based reporting. Why? Well, you can get FIVE licenses in each Developer's Edition copy, which has a MSRP of $619. So who would pay $1000 per user when you can get five users for $619?

Randy

>Hi,
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>We currently use a Visual FoxPro COM object in association with a pdf printer driver to create reports for viewing via our ASP web application.
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>We are considering moving to Crystal Reports for web reporting instead.
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>However, we have concerns about the licensing cost of Crystal Reports on an intranet or via the internet.
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>As I understand it, we get 5 concurrent users when we purchase Crystal Reports Developer Edition. If we have more than 5 concurrent users, we have to buy additional licenses. I've searched around the internet and found people talking about costs such as $1000 per user, or $11,000 per 5 users or $30,000 for over 50 users.
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>As you can tell, I'm a little confused on the pricing issue. ;-)
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>One of our products currently in development will have up to 600 concurrent users, so per user licensing will be a big issue for us.
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>Can anyone confirm the licensing costs ?
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>Also, if I were to create a Visual FoxPro or VB COM object which sits on the server and uses Crystal Reports to server pdf documents, would that be in violation of the license agreement ? I understand that Crystal Reports software enforces the license - would this apply if I'm accessing it via a COM object as above ? Is this approach feasible - does Crystal Reports lend itself to this type of unattended automation ?
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>We are obviously very keen to stay legal on this, so I don't want to create a COM solution if this violates the license agreement.
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>Regards.
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>Matt.