My experience with AR has been wonderful. It was a easy transition from Crystal Reports. My code time dropped and my distriubition problems were erased.
DavidTalbot, 5/4/2006 11:01:30 AM
In regard to the gentleman that referred to crystal as cheaper-Are you insane? Crystal Reports runtimes to get 20 concurrent report executions on a web server is 20k. The prices go up from there. Crystal's developer editions are cheap but *are not* run time licenses. You can't put developer edition on a web server without violating your license and even if you do decide to violate your license agreement with them, Crystal throttles that edition to 2 concurrent executions. Price was why we switched to AR. AR is worlds cheaper once you factor in deployment.
There are some things about AR that we hate but love way outbalances the hate. No product is perfect, but I can confidently say AR is better than Crystal by every measurable factor.
dweese, 3/6/2006 2:49:05 PM
We purchased ActiveReports for .NET 1.0 in mid January 2005. Like most companies do, we expected to be notified when an upgrade was available. DataDynamics does not notify you of an upgrade unless you email them and ask to be put on a notification list. Nowhere on their site does it tell you that you have to "opt in" to be notified of upgrades. We would have qualified for a discounted upgrade to 2.0, but they only honor that price for 6 months. We missed the free upgrade by 1 day, and since we didn't frequently visit the DataDynamics site, we didn't know 2.0 had been released. Our profile with the company was set to receive email updates, which never happened. After speaking with the President of DataDynamics, he informed us that they would not give upgrade pricing, and we would have to pay full price for a newer version. In my opinion, this policy only serves to alienate the customer in an effort to increase the bottom line. If you buy this product, make sure you email them and ask to be notified about updates, set DataDynamics as your home page, and check every day to make sure you don't get ripped off like we did. We have shelved ActiveReports and purchased Crystal Reports 11 for 1/5th of the price of ActiveReports. We will never use ActiveReports again.
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