And large numbers of checks, and invoices, and packing slips, and purchase
orders.....etc...business forms & documents....

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:19 -0500, "Ed Leafe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >       The question is why there is not a Crystal clone in the Linux
> world.
> > The reason is that there is not enough demand for anyone to undertake
> > that task. That doesn't mean that there isn't *any* demand; it's just
> > that it's so small compared to the demand for web-based apps, so
> > that's where the development effort is concentrated.
>
> 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.
>
> --
>  Alan Bourke
>  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
>
>
>
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