What is CR9?

Do you mean Crystal reports 9 (which I use), or is it another product. If the latter, do you have a link?

Cyril.


>CR9 has all the same capabilities; it also has a bug in the viewer that does a double refresh when setting a parameter under certain circumstances, but that can be worked around.
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>Hank
>
>>Hi Hank
>>
>>I take your point about maintenance services. I like Crystal most of all for its exporting capabilities. I wonder if there is another product that has such capabilities that can be used royalty free on TS.
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>>(I haven't looked at vfp9 - does it do Excel, Word, PDF as well?)
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>>Regards
>>Cyril.
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>>
>>>Hi Cyril,
>>>
>>>the issue with shrink-wrapped applications is that one usually makes money on yearly maintenance fees; and that leaves you with some responsibility for where it is installed.
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>>>From my discussion with BO, there is no way to install on TS and have the runtime remain free.
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>>>The good news is that VFP9 allows multiple details, and lots of flexibility in output, etc., so most of the advantages of CR are negated. But it's still a pain.
>>>
>>>Hank
>>>
>>>>>On thing to be aware of before starting with it: when used with a fat client, distribution of the runtime is free. But put that fat client on a terminal server, or Citrix server, and the charge (as of last Friday when I called them) is $5,000/cpu.
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>>>>>Hank
>>>>>
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>>>>Hi Hank
>>>>
>>>>What happens when you sell a shrinked-wrapped application and don't know where it is going to be installed? What happens if the client then installs it on terminal server or Citrix?
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>>>>is there a way to install it on TS so that the runtime remains free?
>>>>
>>>>(I know you are not working for CR<g>, but maybe you have considered these issues?)
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Cyril.