Users cheer Microsoft's new SQL Reporting Services
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Take Stephen Witter, a report developer with a medical products company. Witter plans to replace an existing solution based on Crystal Reports with Reporting Services by the end of this month. Although admitting that the new product's price tag-free of charge, when used on the same system as SQL Server-was the first thing that caught his attention, Witter says Reporting Services has other qualities to recommend its use. "After using the Reporting Services beta for a while I started realizing how much more powerful it was than Crystal," he comments. "[Reporting Services] offers a much deeper level of control over the creation, and rendering, and management of reports, and it fits much better into our overall intranet development plans."