better report than crystal reports

hi to all vb programmers!
do you know a report which is better than or may an alternative to crystal report?

Anything handwritten :D

Seriously, it depends what you want to do. I use a combination of Crystal as well as Word or Excel Templates for my reports - it just depends on what I think is the best tool for the job.

What exactly are you looking for?

Im looking for a report where we can modify its columns or we can enter something on it like the names of signatories during runtime. whether its a free tool(open source) or not. But i prefer open source.

any other referals?