In your article you stated that someone will come up with a way to convert Crystal Reports into the Microsoft format.  Someone already has, (a consulting company) but they were immediately sued by Business Objects (who owns Crystal Reports).  From what I am told the conversion program was in the wild (on the net) for a few days prior to being pulled, so it might be findable, but Crystal is being VERY proprietary in protecting Crystal Reports, so don’t expect to see much in the way of conversion technology.