"Actuate, which stewards the open source business intelligence reporting tool (BIRT), is planning an early 2005 launch, following the approval of the Eclipse Foundation.
"Actuate and Eclipse officials first announced the BIRT proposal to the organization's developer community in August. It is an open source application that will allow Java developers to automate reporting process in easily digestible charts in HTML or PDF files. The system decreases the development costs associated with reporting and analyzing core application functions, officials say..."
