I used to believe that Crystal Reports is the best report building platform available and it used to hold true until Crystal Reports was taken over by Business Objects and started tinkering around to fit it's enterprise reporting platform. It got heavy bloated and unstable. Performance in a winforms app became horrible. Crystal Reports XI was a disaster. They even had to release the software and called it XI-R2. In that version they even tried to embed flash based reports. I still could not get a rationale around it.. I still don't get why that feature is required at the expense of everything else.
Now coming to the point why on the earth SAP want to kill Crystal Reports? They are moving the location of updates every time they release a new version and Google doesn't index their downloads area. So I thought of posting few these locations in the interest of fellow developers - Ordered by Descending
Crystal Reports 2011 Support Packages
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-27201
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010
Support Pack 3
Support Pack 2
Support Pack 1
RTM
Recent Older downloads from the business Objects days are still available on their old
site
Some Older Downloads are available
here
Please feel free to add additional download locations in the comments sections.
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