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

[Rich Young]

Thanks, EZ, I'll look at it.  I think I looked at Jasper before trying
Agata, but perhaps I didn't give it a decent chance.

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I'm Rich Young, and I approved this message.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org 
> [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf Of Eniac Zhang
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:39 AM
> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Open Source or Linux-Compatible 
> Reporting Package?
> 
> 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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