Re: Looking for alternatives to Oracle Reports 6

[Quoted] [Quoted] If I see how much time my programmers loose making simple adaptations to a report, then I am quiet surprised. My programmers have followed all courses on reports they can follow, so there should no be lack of knowledge. Anyways [Quoted] they have no problems with forms, developer, designer, pl/sql or other products, only reports.
Some things that really disturb me are : -) The Wysiwig does not work correctly. The preview doesn't show what you will get on paper. So, you first have to print to see what you will get. -) One can use a template, but only once. If you choose the template, then you can start changing all reports and not only recompiling, but really changing.

-) Things like justification don't work properly.
-) Reports is not intuitive at all.
-) Report is a memory consumer. Moving an item one pixel and 200k of memory

I am sure that choosing another product will mean less integration. But we don't have any complicated reports. No matrix-reports or so, we just want to [Quoted] print simple things like contracts via the client, with the only [Quoted] complication that we want documents printed in 3 languages. So ease of lay-out and use is very important and that is what reports doesn't offer.

Dirk Verschueren

[Quoted] "Daniel A. Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3AF3A339.65DFC915_at_exesolutions.com...
> "mammoth.usenet-access.com" wrote:
>
> > We are currently looking for alternatives to Oracle Report 6
> >
> > We are running a 8.1.7 Oracle Database
> > We have NT clients and want to continue the use of Forms 6.
> >
> > Does any one know of good alternatives ?
> > What about Crystal Reports ? Has anyone experience with this soft ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dirk V.
> > Ordonix_at_planetinternet.be
> >
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> I have experience with Reports, Discoverer, Crystal, and Cognos. And I
> can't imagine what you think you are going to gain by spending more
> money on another product that will have poorer integration and poorer
> performance.
>
> Please explain what you need that you are not getting now. That will
> help in making a recommendation.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
>

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