SQL Anywhere Licenses v9 with v16 and v16 with v9

[Former Member]

Have a customer running Sybase SQL Anywhere v9.

They currently have nine networked client licenses.

They need an additional seven.

The current SAP license offering is v16 networked client licenses.

Will v16 networked client licenses work with v9 SQL Anywhere?

Additionally,

The customer will eventually upgrade to SQL Anywhere v16.

Will their current v9 networked client licenses work with SQL Anywhere v16?

Thanks.

[JasonHinsperger · Accepted solution]

You can purchase licenses for newer versions of SQL Anywhere and apply them to older versions of the server.

For older licenses, it is a little more complicated.  If you bought those licenses through SAP, then you can apply them to any version of SQL Anywhere, including newer versions.  However, if you bought the licenses through Sybase, you cannot apply old client licenses to new versions of the software.

--Jason

[reimer_pods]

Sybase licences used to be "downgradeable", so we often sold licences for a current SQLA version to customers using an older release.

But you should check with your sales representative, if that's still valid after SAP has entered the game.

[Former Member]

Hi George,

I believe that the client needs to buy or upgrade (if this is possible) the available licenses to the last version to be legal... If your question is about using asa 9 client to connect in a v. 16 server, then the answer is,  it should work, but only functionality from asa 9 will be available in the client side. Actually, in the past we had an issue, where a 3rd party application was not able to communicate with an sql anywhere server v.11 using v.11 client. But it was working fine to connect using obbc client from asa 8! We do have a cpu license which has no limit on the clients... So we used asa 8 to connect through the 3rd party app, and 11 client to connect through our application.

And the remaining question is if it's legal or not... and I'm not the appropriate person to give an answer...

Andreas.