Open Client provides customer applications, third-party products, and other Sybase products with the interfaces needed to communicate with Adaptive Server and Open Server.
Open Client can be thought of as having two components: programming interfaces and network services.
The programming interfaces component of Open Client is made up of libraries designed for use in writing client applications: Client-Library, DB-Library, and CS-Library. (Both Open Client and Open Server include CS-Library, which contains utility routines that are useful to both client and server applications.
Open Client network services include Net-Library, which provides support for specific network protocols, such as TCP/IP.
