<s>
FreeTDS	B-Language
is	O
a	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
programming	O
library	O
,	O
a	O
re-implementation	O
of	O
the	O
Tabular	B-Protocol
Data	I-Protocol
Stream	I-Protocol
protocol	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
place	O
of	O
Sybase	B-Application
's	O
db-lib	O
or	O
ct-lib	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
includes	O
an	O
ODBC	B-Application
library	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
allows	O
many	O
open	O
source	O
applications	O
such	O
as	O
Perl	B-Language
and	O
PHP	B-Application
(	O
or	O
any	O
C	B-Language
or	O
C++	B-Language
program	I-Language
)	O
to	O
connect	O
to	O
Sybase	B-Application
ASE	I-Application
or	O
Microsoft	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Server	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
FreeTDS	B-Language
is	O
a	O
source	O
code	O
library	O
,	O
not	O
a	O
program	O
in	O
and	O
of	O
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Users	O
generally	O
compile	B-Language
the	O
library	O
from	O
source	O
and	O
link	B-Application
another	O
program	O
to	O
the	O
library	O
to	O
allow	O
the	O
other	O
program	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
FreeTDS	B-Language
API	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
recent	O
releases	O
of	O
FreeTDS	B-Language
do	O
include	O
some	O
client	O
programs	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
(	O
a	O
replacement	O
for	O
the	O
utility	O
programs	O
distributed	O
by	O
Sybase	B-Application
and	O
Microsoft	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
FreeTDS	B-Language
is	O
licensed	O
under	O
terms	O
of	O
the	O
GNU	B-Application
Lesser	I-Application
General	I-Application
Public	I-Application
License	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
jTDS	O
is	O
a	O
Java	O
implementation	O
of	O
FreeTDS	B-Language
,	O
available	O
on	O
SourceForge	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
jBCP	O
extends	O
jTDS	O
to	O
include	O
Sybase	B-Application
Bulk	O
Copy	O
Program	O
(	O
BCP	O
)	O
extensions	O
.	O
</s>
