Reviewing Crystal Reports

Source: WikipediaCrystal Reports is a program that has been around since about 1990, when it came on a 3.5" floppy disk, and was bundled with DB IV. The package was released to the public by Seagate, and from its humble beginnings it has grown to be the most popular package in the world for creating reports from almost any known source, from text files (text delimited, tab delimited) to modern sources like ODBC, Oracle, in fact any database format, including Excel and Access.
Today, Business Objects own and distribute the package, but it remains almost identical to the original release, dressed up to look like most modern Window type packages, but with Lotus 123 formulas and Crystal Basic, running in the background.
One feature that was taken out from about version 7.5 - 8 was the ability to distribute your reports to those who did not have Crystal Reports installed on their pc. The Compile Report feature allowed you to set your own levels of permission before sending to a receipient, similar to the security on PDF files.
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