reporting service sql server independant?

I am investigating if reporting services can be used for our application and
I have a question.
The application is currently using sql server but it has to be DBMS
independant. From what I found on the web I get the impression that you will
always need sql server in some way to store reports. Is that true? Can we
create reports with sql server reporting services and deploy/use them on a
setup with an oracle database only or is sql server only needed for
developing?
Antoon
The datasources for reports can be pretty much anything but the Report
Server catalog (required to be defined when installing Reporting Services)
database has to be hosted on SQL Server so there is always a requirement for
that.
HTH
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"Conrad S." <omni@.scient.net> wrote in message
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>I am investigating if reporting services can be used for our application
>and
> I have a question.
> The application is currently using sql server but it has to be DBMS
> independant. From what I found on the web I get the impression that you
> will
> always need sql server in some way to store reports. Is that true? Can we
> create reports with sql server reporting services and deploy/use them on a
> setup with an oracle database only or is sql server only needed for
> developing?
> Antoon
>