Existing customers with valid support contracts who are already using the third-party ODBC Driver and OLE DB Provider can continue to receive support for these products through the life cycle of Adaptive Server 12.5.
Until July 30, 2007, the support program will continue as it is today. After July 30, 2007, Sybase will address only P1 (severity level 1) issues. New updates to these drivers will be delivered as a standalone downloads.
The third-party ODBC Driver and OLE DB Provider you have today will support Adaptive Server features up to and including Adaptive Server 12.5.3. Any issues found with these drivers will only be addressed by Sybase if they can be reproduced in version 12.5.3. If you use the third-party products with versions of Adaptive Server later than 12.5.3, Sybase may not be able to identify problems or support fixes.
See the Sybase Web site for the End of Life notification for these drivers.
Sybase recommends that you migrate to the new ODBC and OLE DB drivers as soon as possible.
See the New Features for OpenServer 12.5.1 and SDK 12.5.1 for Windows, Linux and UNIX, for instructions on migrating to the new drivers.
