Re: reporting tools

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:42 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> Thanks. Pentaho looks good. But are there any alternatives that don't
> require me to spend days installing the whole Java shebang?
>

my 2 cents.. I've tried to install and play with pentaho like more than
a couple of times and failed each time. There was just some java errors
which I didn't comprehend and this is from it's all-in-one package.