[NCLUG] Open Source or Linux-Compatible Reporting Package?

[Eniac Zhang]

A few month ago one of my friend asked me to do some research for 
similar topic and they ended up with these two projects from 
sourceforge: http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/ and 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ireport/ (form designer for jasperreport)

Rich Young wrote:

>Hey, all-
>	We're in need of a cross-platform reporting product, something
>that will work on both linux and windows web servers.  Think Crystal
>Reports, but maybe not actually Crystal Reports.
>
>	Ideally, it would work without requiring knowledge of Java.  PHP
>would be keen, perl or python okay, proprietary but simple languages
>acceptable. Some statistical and graphing capabilities are important.
>
>	Our model is likely to be: develop in Windows, publish in
>Windows OR Linux.  I'm soliciting suggestions because there is some
>pressure towards using MS SQL Server Reporting Services and Visual
>Studio.  I strongly suspect that this approach would lock us into
>publishing on IIS, which I don't want to do.  Anything that's cheaper
>than two copies of Visual Studio ($1200 or so?) and meets these other
>requirements is a viable option.  I've looked at Agata, but I'm not sure
>about it.  What I'd really like is some recommendation from someone else
>who's used something similar and has positive or negative suggestions.
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice y'all might have.
>
>
>
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