As you can see at , SQL Anywhere 17 has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 only, which is a Long Term Release (LTS) from April 2012. After that, the Ubuntu 14.04 release of April 2014 appeared. Now this year, Ubuntu 16.04 has been released.
Still, the only tested platform for SQL Anywhere 17 is a Linux vom 2012, which is 4 years old, which is like several decades in human years. Or what's Windows 7 to Windows 10 if you'd like to compare it in the Microsoft world.
If there's a test suite to verify the installation and runtime, why hasn't it been executed on the recent, most popular linux? Even when SQL Anywhere was released at the end of 2015, it could have been tested in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 could have been added in the meantime.
It's a bit better on the so-called "Enterprise" linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 was released in 2014 and SQL Anywhere has been tested on it, but it contains a lot of outdated packages and it's not very widespread on cloud platforms.
I don't really feel like spending money on an upgrade to SQL Anywhere 17 if no one seems to care about it any longer.
Can somebody from SAP please contact the QA-people and re-run tests with current linux versions?
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