To run Open Client applications, you must install and configure Sybase Open Client components on the computer where the application is running. You may have these components present as part of your installation of other Sybase products or you can optionally install these libraries with SQL Anywhere, subject to the terms of your license agreement.

Open Client applications do not need any Open Client components on the computer where the database server is running.

To build Open Client applications, you need the development version of Open Client, available from Sybase.

By default, SQL Anywhere databases are created as case-insensitive, while Adaptive Server Enterprise databases are case sensitive.

For more information about running Open Client applications with SQL Anywhere, see Using SQL Anywhere as an Open Server.