The morons haven’t left at Business Objects

I had high hopes that with a new major release of BusinessObjects Enterprise, Crystal and Xcelsius things would improve somewhat. But, unfortunately, it’s starting to look more and more like that’s not the case. I’m currently doing a side-by-side installation of XI R2 and 3.0, which is supposed to be supported, that is proving to be somewhat of a pain in the backside to say the least. Now I’m trying to install the so-called Web Intelligence Rich Client directly from the Preferences screen in InfoView and guess what?

F/%$&#ing morons. Strangely enough I installed both BOE XI 3.0 and Crystal Reports 2008 on a VMware session and there’s no problem, probably because I installed Enterprise first and then CR.

Edit: I found out why, read all about it here.

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  In 1999, although trained as an economist and marketeer, I started working with an application called Crystal Reports (I don't even remember the version). I realised then that what I wanted to be was a, even though I don't think the term was already coined back then, Business Intelligence specialist.

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