Re: oracle reports

From: Christoph Mack <C.Mack_at_austria.eu.net>
Date: 2000/06/26
Message-ID: <39571639.D71312A8_at_austria.eu.net>#1/1


Hello!

Since you know both products could you please say something about the advantages and disadvantages of Crystal Reports and the Oracle Report Designer.

thank you in advance

   Christoph Mack

wildpony wrote:
>
> actually i was looking for report 6.0 which is a stand alone product and was broken
> out from developer back when developer was 3.0 1998 time period
> and yes it does use an odbc driver for any and most RDBMS
> I have not been able to download a trial version .... ftp.oracle.com is not
> accepting anymore users ....must be quite busy today
> as for crystal reports ...no go ...already bought a copy of it and it does not do
> what i need to have done (product completely useless for my purposes ), actually
> microsoft access reports works fine for me but not powerful enough to generate nth
> amount of invoice a day that i need
> than you
>
> TurkBear wrote:
>
> > The Oracle Reporting tool is Oracle Reports and is part of the Developer product
> > and, as far as I know, is not available as a separate product...
> >
> > You may want to look at Oracle Discoverer
> >
> > A Non-Oracle product that is terrific with Oracle data is Seagate Crystal
> > Reports and, with its combination of native and ODBC connectivity, it can
> > connect to almost any data source known to the modern world.)
> >
> > Take a look at it here:
> >
> > http://www.seagatesoftware/crystalreports
> >
> > for more info..
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > wildpony <z1wildpony_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >can someone please direct me to the correct place for
> > >basic oracle reporting product, and does this use an odbc driver to
> > >connect to any type or RDBMS ?
> > >I am currectly scanning the Oracle website for this information but
> > >currently unable to
> > >find what i am looking for
> >
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  Received on Mon Jun 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST

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