Provides protection against "ripping and replacing" IT infrastructure as a result of Applications, Services, or DBMS changes.

Feature Category		Features
Platform Support	Support for client, server, and application server operating systems	32- and 64-bit components Enables the development and utilization of 32- or 64-Bit DBMS independent applications. Broad Operating System Support Enables the development of ODBC compliant applications and the utilization of ODBC Drivers on non Windows platforms such as; Linux (x86, PPC, Itanium, Opteron), Mac OS X, Mac OS Classic, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, HP True64 UNIX, IRIX, Altix, SCO UnixWare, and others.
Database Engine Support	Backend database engine support	Broad backend Database Support Enables DBMS independent application utilization and deployment across a vast array of industry leading DBMS engines that includes; Oracle (7.x - 10.x), SQL Server (6.x - 2005), DB2 (6.x - 8.x), Sybase (10.x - 12.x), Progress (7.x - 10.x), Ingres (6.4 - II family), Informix (5.x - 9.x