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CR 2008 Licensing

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Topic: CR 2008 Licensing
Posted By: lockwelle
Subject: CR 2008 Licensing
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2009 at 6:36am
Hi,
 
My company is thinking/planning on moving away from Crystal based on licensing fees.  We currently are on CR XI. I have read that CR 2008 reports can be distributed freely (after paying a 1 time fee by the developers), to purchasers of a software package.  Or another way of saying it...if I pay SAP $2500, I can embed and distribute as many CR reports as I want without incurring further licensing fees.
 
Is this true?  We are moving to a another reporting tool that I have been fighting with for over 3 weeks to create a report that I already created in CR in 1-2 days.  It would be nice to be able to say that there is an option.
 
The new tool does have some cool features that CR doesn't (like allowing the user to modify/create their own reports from the dataset), but...
 
Thanks for any feedback you can provide.


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