Can you clarify the need / value added for reporting tool, over just running queries and packaging the output in HTML (with a little CSS for styling, you can get near PDF quality). This can be done in SQL and a tad of PHP (or Ruby).
On 10/15/07, Geoffrey <lists@serioustechnology.com> wrote: Ned Lilly wrote:
> On 10/14/2007 6:41 PM Geoffrey wrote:
>> Bill Moran wrote:
>>> Geoffrey <lists@serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>>> Andrus wrote:
>>>>>> I guess I should have noted that we will need to run this on Linux
>>>>>> clients.
>>>>> Geoffrey,
>>>>>
>>>>> You can run FYIReporting engine in Linux using MONO (
>>>>> www.go-mono.com )
>>>> Thanks, we're looking for something that will run natively on Linux.
>>>
>>> I read this, almost deleted it, read it again ...
>>>
>>> Just in case there's confusion, MONO + FYIReporting _is_ native on
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> At least, as much so as Java on Linux is.
>>
>> We are not interested in using any Microsoft technologies, or
>> technologies based on Microsoft technologies.
>>
>> It's a philosophical position.
>
>
> Geoffrey, have you looked at OpenRPT?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openrpt
Yes, and it is looking like the app we will be going with. Thanks.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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