Don't Pay
Twice
a campaign to educate
Business Objects users
BO has a new program
that attempts to impose an invisible 'tax' on all Crystal Reports
training done by anyone. This will increase your training costs
while reducing your
choices. The worst part is that it is based on a new and
contradictory interpretation the Crystal Reports license. This
page is designed to expose the program, and encourage you to provide
feedback to Business Objects management. If you have
something for me to add to this page, please drop me a line.
My original article
on this topic.
Read the standard response sent by Beth
Christopher of Business Objects, along with my comments.
On a
related topic, new restrictions
placed on Regional User Groups who invite independent speakers.
The Response from the Board of the DC
Area
Users Group to both policy changes.
Feedback from other users.
Official Response from Business Objects
that contradicts Dan Klein's statement that public classes violate the
EULA.
A court ruling that contradicts BO's
policy on the use of Screenshots.
Companies that are ignoring the new programs.
An article
on this by itBusiness magazine in Canada.
Another article
on this topic by the Business Intelligence Pipeline.
A GREAT article
on this topic by CRN including copies
of the lawsuit
and countersuit mentioned in the article.
The views of Tek-Tips
Users on this topic. Post your own comments.
A letter circulating among accounting VARS that
deal with OEM versions of Crystal Reports
George Peck gives his opinion in a letter
to user groups (PDF)
A list of key decision makers at BO (let
them know what you think).
If you want to
read the actual documents involved, I have posted copies provided to me
by several of my readers:
The letter from BO (pdf) to training
companies
announcing the CLA.
The full Classroom License Agreement (CLA) text (pdf).