Suggestions for good FOSS reporting tool

[samalex]

Hi,

I'm looking for a FOSS (with an emphasis on Free) reporting tool to parse through some data and generate well formatted reports with charts and such.

I've checked out Pentaho (http://www.pentaho.com/) and really like it, but though it's open source I can't find anyway to download and use it without cost. I'm also looking at JasperForce (http://jasperforge.org/projects/jasperreports) and OpenRPT (http://www.xtuple.com/openrpt/) which are both freely available (I believe) but I wanted to see if anyone in here had used either or had other suggestions.

Ideally I'd like to be able to connect to various databases (MySQL, MSSQL, and possibly Oracle) to pull data into the reports, then save them as PDF to distribute. I'd love to find something that also had the option of a server so users could view live reports, but that's not a must.

Any suggestions? This is for a small 5-8 user shop so nothing too grandiose is needed.

Thanks for any suggestions --

Sam

[juancarlospaco]

go0d luck...! :)

[Xbehave]

python? Erm i know it's not what you asked for but python-matplotlib, can output lots of nice graphs, you just need to decide what you want them to show (which is always going to be the hard part), then program a counter to spit it out into the graph (any software is basically going to be doing this anyway).