pschmidt@... wrote:

> On 24 Oct 2002 at 17:07, Raigo Lukk wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>>driver (also commercial) should work well. Now a comment about Access, it's
>>>probably one of the worst ways to access a C/S database, unless your really really
>>>careful and make sure that all Queries are database native mode.
>>>
>>
>>I am not a big fan of Access either. This project started with a need to
>>upgrade (add new features to) an existing application. The application
>>is relatively small and now only used by 4 simultaneus users. Still I
>>suggested to upsize database to SQL (Firebird) and build a new client in
>>Delphi. This was OK, however at the moment they liked about Access that
>>they can build new reports by themselves and modify existing reports. So
>>I thought for that kind of reports I could sep up also an Access project
>>linked to Firebird. Is there any good (and free) report builder what
>>could be used instead?
>
>
> Not sure about free report builders, if your going to use Delphi, there used to be a
> report builder built in, so maybe you can use that, other then that, I usually use
> Crystal Reports, but it's commercial.
>

In delphi/kylix and Visual Basic: ReportMan in sourceforge, is opensource.

In delphi freereport.