>http://www.businessobjects.com/news/announcement/
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>It looks like crystal reports is on its ways to BO ownership. A brilliant and successfull french-run company set-up by ex-oraclers with an aggressive selling strategy targetting oracle customer base (fortune 500 IT depts).
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>I would not expect the product to get leaner and simpler:(
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>Expect an insistance on the centralised server product with a more BO-like philosophy. Nothing against that. BO is a clever product but bad luck for those VFP developpers looking for a clean embeddable ocx with "one-shot licensing".
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>Alas it's not exactly the kind of marketing to suit our needs on the long run. I'd be glad to be wrong but i'd expect higher pricing à-la-oracle any time soon as well. Has the the tariffication already been reviewed?
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>My question: what is the next decent embeddable report writer with an acceptable licensing scheme for us to deliver with our dear vfp applications?
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>Possibly the VFP9 one or an alternate products (not that easy to find one that properly inter-operate with vfp).
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>My thanks to the MS VFP team for their work on the subject:)
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>François


Some time ago I tried DataDynamics' Active Reports (http://www.datadynamics.com) with VFP 6, at that time (2 years ago more or less) I needed to create a Visual Basic wrapper ActiveX control so that it could work with VFP 6. It was more or less like Crystal Reports when integrating with VFP. I hope that new version has a better integration with VFP 7 or VFP 8.

Luis