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CR Licensing Requirements

I am in the planning stages of moving a fairly large app from Access to ASP.NET 3 / C# / SQL Server 2000 and am investigating report generators.

I am the sole developer of the app outside of testers and sporadic subcontractors.

The new app will have both a Win forms solution and a web forms solution.

Using the CR which came with VS 2005, I am wondering what the licensing requirements for my client would be.

There will be up to 40 users or so on the Win forms app, and maybe 20 more or so on the web forms app, but I would think that only one or two web users would be connected at a given instant. On the Win forms side, the generation of reports and spreadsheets is pretty intense, so it is easy to imagine up to 20 or so generating reports at a given time.

Each Win forms user will most likely be using an executable in their own directory, into which the CR reports will be compiled. CR will not be stand alone in any way - there will be no user customization.

Any help on this topic would be much appreciated.

Many thanks
Mike Thomas

M Thomas Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:21 PM

the runtime needed to deploy Crystal reports application is free. You will need to use merge modules to deploy. (http://support.businessobjects.com/downloads/merge_modules.asp#07)

There is a limit of 3 cpl (concurrent process licence). This only allows three concurrent reports to be generated at one time. if the reports are fairly quick you shouldn't worry, if they aren't it will queue any other jobs that need to be run. This 3cpl is per processor (no guarantee of proper load balancing between processors in a multiprocessor environment, so it could range from 3 to 3times the number of processors).

If you are wanting help on writing the applications there is a good document available: http://www.businessobjects.com/global/pdf/dev_zone/VS2005_Walkthroughs.pdf.

mewdied Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:23 PM

the runtime needed to deploy Crystal reports application is free. You will need to use merge modules to deploy. (http://support.businessobjects.com/downloads/merge_modules.asp#07)

If you are wanting help on writing the applications there is a good document available: http://www.businessobjects.com/global/pdf/dev_zone/VS2005_Walkthroughs.pdf.

mewdied Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:23 PM

Mewdied, many thanks for your help - I really appreciate it. I'll check the docs out.

Mike Thomas

M Thomas Friday, December 01, 2006 2:14 PM

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