Phoenix Kiula wrote on 23.08.2007 10:42:
> On 23/08/07, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of CR, but it's worked with PostgreSQL
>> for quite some time now. We had it hitting a pg7.2 db back in the
>> day, when hip kids road around in rag top roadsters and wore tshirts
>> with cigarettes rolled in their sleeves.
>>
>> Also, look at Pentaho. It's open source and pretty good.
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> Thanks. Pentaho looks good. But are there any alternatives that don't
> require me to spend days installing the whole Java shebang?
If you don't need a server-based solution, you might want to look at iReport
designer.
Although it is also Java based it only needs a runtime environment on the client
(not sure if that qualifies for "whole shebang" for you as well):
http://www.jasperforge.org/sf/projects/ireport
Thomas