Any Alternatives to Crystal 8 Server Lic. - Confused? 1

[smedvid]

Just a shot in the dark, but I have a software package where the vendor recently upgraded to CR 8.5. The vendor told us that we need to purchase a Server Lic for CR. the expected cost is close to $100K. A pretty big chunck of change.

Previously, we used an Active-X CRV for viewing CR 7.x reports from within the vendors system. While I am sure we have CR installed on the server; the costs are no where close to the expected new Lic. costs.Personally, I am confused with the model that CR is using if this is the case.

So... Are their any options, short of recommedning that the vendor use another reporting tool?

Any comments welcome,

Steve Medvid
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[synapsevampire]

There are alternative viewers with more reasonable licensing.

Check the third part addons in:

http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html

I've looked at some of Ido Millets software (

http://www.milletsoftware.com/DataLink_Viewer.htm),

and it's very well done.

-k

 

[chelseatech]

There are several other developers of Report Viewers who are active contributors of this site

Check out our own cView.

Editor and Publisher of Crystal Clear

http://www.chelseatech.co.nz/pubs.htm

 

[SurfingGecko]

As mentioned above looking at a third party viewer would be your best best. I also do not suspect this is strictly a CR licensing issue. They have a license model requirement and the application being developed would have to comply in some way. It sounds like this upgraded server app has a pretty hefty lic. requirement and they should have researched the impact of such a move. Granted the license costs themselves are expensive.

Ken Hamady's site (kenhamady.com) is a good place to start as he has summarized a selection of tools.

Cheers,

SurfingGecko

http://www.surfinggeckosoftware.com