Performance Tuning Siebel Software on the Sun Platform

Acknowledgements
Thanks to <strong>Siebel</strong> Systems' Mark Farrier, Francisco Casas, Farinaz Farsai, Vikram Kumar,
Santosh Hasani, Sanjay Agarwal, Harsha Gadagkar, and others from <strong>Siebel</strong> Systems for
working with Sun. Thanks to Scott Anderson, George Drapeau, and Lester Dorman for
their role as management and sponsors from Sun. Thanks to Diane Kituara, Sherill Ellis,
and George Drapeau for their valuable feedback on content for this paper. Thanks to Sun
MDE Team Kesari Mandyam, Giri Mandalika, and Devika Gollapudi for their
contributions. Thanks to the various engineers across Sun Microsystems for providing
subject matter expertise: Ravindra Talashikar (PAE), Stephen Johnson (Network
Storage), and Dileep Kumar (Sun Java System Web Server).
About the Author
Khader Mohiuddin works as a Staff Engineer in the Market Development Engineering
organization at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His role as the engineering lead for the Sun-
<strong>Siebel</strong> Alliance involves optimizing <strong>Siebel</strong> CRM applications on the Sun platform, joint
technology adoption projects, and so on. He has been at Sun for four years empowering
ISVs to adopt Sun’s latest technologies. Prior to that he worked at Oracle as a developer
and Senior <strong>Performance</strong> Engineer for five years, and at AT&T Bell Labs, New Jersey, for
three years.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” — has
propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of
industrial-strength hardware, software, and services that make the Net work. Sun can be
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