Hello Marco,

Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 5:51:02 PM, you wrote:

> I use OpenOffice that has a standard, open, internationally approved
> (ISO) file format. I'm not interested in any tools that locks my data
> in a proprietary format anymore.
> This is not a critic to your product, just would like to make you
> aware that the sane direction, OMHO, is people to get control upon
> they own data / documents, avoiding vendor lock-in.
> Probably you could also make your component ODF compliant, since you
> can have all the documentation you need about the format:
> http://opendocument.xml.org/
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office#odf11
> FastReports, for instance, has added ODF export filters.
> regards
> Marco Menardi

Thank you for response Marco.

Actually all data stored in the database. Report tool just allow fetch
it and represent for looking and printing.

Don't worry about somebody can't read your XLS-report, OpenOffice for
instance can work with XLS. So it is not so locked. No more locked
than database ODS. Besides, Microsoft will add ODF export or even
support it in full.

Other issue - OpenOffice is free of charge, Microsoft Excel is not.

Microsoft Excel is great tool, I appreciate it, millions of buyers
too. It is much more powerful than other spreadsheet tools. And It is
much more powerful than standalone report tools like FastReports.

XLSQL Reports is symbiosis of Excel power and SQL power.
It is useless without one of constituents.
Excel-users will highly appreciate it.
Not Excel-users have to use other report tools, I accept it.


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Best regards,
Ramil R. Khabibullin khabibr@...