![]() ![]() Your machine’s CPU should be an Intel Pentium III or better, with a minimum of 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended). To run Crystal Report 2008, your computer must meet a few requirements. ![]() For information about the RTM version, go to the SAP Community Network website. ![]() Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010 was still in beta at press time. Instead, you must download a separate installer from SAP’s website. Visual Studio 2010 is the first version of Visual Studio to not ship with Crystal Reports. The authoring experience isn’t as rich as what you get with the full-blown Crystal Reports product-developers who want more from the product will need to upgrade (or remove the need for Visual Studio to develop reports). With Visual Studio, Microsoft developers can directly (and for free) embed Crystal Reports into their applications, using a variety of report viewer mechanisms and controls. I couldn’t write a review of Crystal Reports without mentioning the product’s support for Visual Studio and Microsoft developers. If you want to ship the underlying report engine with an application (e.g., in ISV scenarios), you need to purchase a Crystal Reports runtime server license for $2,500. The software ships in an x86 build, but it supports running in 32-bit mode on 圆4 systems. Crystal Reports 2008’s Development Edition is $400 for a single-user license. How long have you been in the business intelligence (BI) field? Unlike the Microsoft BI stack that we all take for granted, Crystal Reports has been in the BI game since the early 1990s.
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