CE 10.0 Questions

[techie2]

Hi,

We are in the process of moving to CE 10.0. I am doing little research to find out the compatibilty in the environments we are going to use. I have couple of questions:

1.> If Oracle 9.2 is installed on HP Unix 11i, can CE 10.0 from Windows 2003 report on this database using Oracle 9.2 Client??
2.> Our existing reports use Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle. Will the same connection work fine without any changes in CE 10.0
3.> Is there any document which compares the features of CE 8.0, CE 8.5, CE 9.0 and CE 10.0
4.> When CE 11.0 is expected. Any official dates announced yet.

Thanks for your help.

V

 

[synapsevampire]

1.> If Oracle 9.2 is installed on HP Unix 11i, can CE 10.0 from Windows 2003 report on this database using Oracle 9.2 Client??
Crystal has 3 ways to connect to Oracle:
Native connectivity (suggested)
It's own ODBC driver
Oracle's ODBC driver

2.> Our existing reports use Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle. Will the same connection work fine without any changes in CE 10.0
It should work, although is NOT the fastest form of connectivity, use the native connectivity

3.> Is there any document which compares the features of CE 8.0, CE 8.5, CE 9.0 and CE 10.0
Not that I'm aware of, and since the architecture of Crystal itself changed, it's a very complicated topic.

4.> When CE 11.0 is expected. Any official dates announced yet.

I thought that it was out, anyway here's the info:

http://www.businessobjects.com/products/platform/enterprise.asp

-k