One other reason I just thought of for moving to CR 9.0. It can be installed side-by-side with pervious versions of Crystal Reports. Versions 8.5 and earlier do not have that capability.


>Graig,
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>>As I mentioned earlier, CR 8.5 may not run properly on Windows 2000 and above.
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>Could you give me a reference telling about this. I'm running a lot of CR 8.5 on W2K and above. I did not encounter any problems in this area though.
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>>So, it really depends on your needs. If you don't need pictures from a path location, but need to run in Win9x, then I would go with CR9.
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>Most of the time it is difficult to tell if this is going to be a requirement or not in the long run, but granted.
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>Walter,