Crystal Reports and Web applications.. what is the future?

Hello,
I currently create reports in Crystal 11 R2 and display them within my intranet application using an SDK and asp calls.
I would like to know what the future holds for this method... what upgrade path do I have?
Certainly I intend to keep things the way they are as we have a large number of reports but I would like to know what options I will have to investigate\be aware of for the future?
I realise my question is a bit open ended...
What does SAP\Business Objects\Crystal decsions advocate in this regard... what is their prefered methond of providing reporting for web type applications?
PS. I am not interested in portals etc. The application provides paramters and DSN switching at run time within the application.
Cheers,

Hi Scott,
Moved to .NET SDK forum. Your next move is to ASP.NET and to CR Assemblies through RAS ( Report Application Server ). It is the replacement for the RDC you currently use.
Lots of samples on how to through our WIKI:
Root Page
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsHome
Enterprise Samples (including managed and unmanaged ras)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BusinessObjectsSDKSampleApplications
Non-Enterprise Samples
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/CrystalReportsSDKSampleApplications
Exporting Samples (RAS)
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/NETRASSDK+Samples#NETRASSDKSamples-Exporting%2FPrinting
Thank you
Don

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