Re: Review on Report Generators

From: David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> > >In article <88cbsn$ao7$2@bnews.gigabell.net>, Axel Sander ><axsander@okay.net> writes > > > >I'm looking for a _useable_ report generator running on on a Windows >system > >while the 7.3x DS is doing its work on a sun. > > > >Is there any review on this software on the net or any magazine? > >The Software should support the german language (but I would give it a >try > >if it supports 'umlauts'). > > > >Reading this newsgroup showed up serious problems on Crystal reports and >I > >got hints on Sybase Infomaker and Informix Visionary. > > > >Or should I give this up immediately and use Excel + VBA instead? > > > try Hummingbird at > > http://www.hummingbird.com/ > > > They have a product called BiQuery BI/Query, yes. :-) Good point, there stuff looked really good, although I haven't used a report writer in anger for over a year. Also, Cognos have quite popular tools, although I'm not sure why... :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:04:52 GMT, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >although I haven't used a report >writer in anger for over a year What caused your holy wrath? Axel