On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:18 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:

> But surely if people are developing the sorts of applications that

> used

> to be fat client desktop apps as web-based apps these days, they still

> need to run reports against the data? You still need to print

> payslips

> from your payroll app, whether it runs in a browser or not.

My guess is that most of those uses are either on older systems, or

on simpler tools. The idea of a monolithic tool for creating any

imaginable paper report doesn't seem to be very popular. I can log on

to my cell phone account and see a list of all my calls, and I'm sure

it was done in a standard web tool rather than some standalone tool

like Crystal.

-- Ed Leafe