[SUMMARY]: SIEBEL anyone?

Hello List,

On Feb 20, 2004, at 5:45 AM, i  wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> i hope everyone is going to have a great weekend.
>
> Out of curiosity i'd like to ask for your experiences regarding the
> SIEBEL software. I hear that people prefer Windows for the application
> server because it is one or two minor releases ahead compared to the
> UNIX version, is that true?
>
> Any other intesting insights from the Solaris perspective?
>
> Greetings,
>
> dd

I received a couple of good replies, neither of which gave enough
information to go into really arguing the decision to use windows as
the platform for the application servers. Here are some excerpts:

G. Reed writes:
> well, if you want to trade the possibility of the latest features and lose
> stability, sure. I've tested systems running SIEBEL and JD-Edwards on
> windows and they were flaky and tended to have to be rebooted almost daily :(

# scary, huh?

A. Talltree wrote:

>> Out of curiosity i'd like to ask for your experiences regarding the
>> SIEBEL software.
>
>>  I hear that people prefer Windows for the application
>> server because it is one or two minor releases ahead compared to the
>> UNIX version, is that true?
>
> I wouldn't be suprised, but I also would never use that platform for
> production services.
>>
>> Any other intesting insights from the Solaris perspective?
>
> My understanding is that the client end *only* runs on MS-OS, with a
> proprietary plugin that only works in MSIE.  This makes it wholly
> unusable.

# I may or may not agree but this is somewhat too "religious" to be
used in a serious argument...

Greg Shaw stated
> We've got a large siebel installation on unix.  We wanted it on unix
> because we don't incur viruses, and our run-time on unix is FAR higher.

> We're running both 6.0 and 7.x in different configurations.  The unix 
> boxes don't even breathe hard with siebel.  The windows boxes require a 
> lot of hand-holding to keep going.

> It currently runs on windows and unix.  However, since MS is moving 
> into the CRM space, my thought was that the love affair between siebel 
> and MS will be over soon.  Sun runs a large siebel installation 
> internally, which means to me that that will continue.

> Of course, YMMV.

> Regarding the releases, you really don't want to be bleeding edge with 
> siebel.  They have bugs, and you don't want to experience them first.

# I hope you are right with that guess. Maybe we can try to move to
unix with the next siebel version then.

E. Kerekes wrote
> We run Siebel on Solaris except we use windows for some of the web
> servers.  The whole thing uses 7 Solaris servers and a mess of windows
> servers.  They considered running the whole thing on windows but when
> the realized how many servers that would be we went to a mixed
> environment.  Feel free to send me any questions?

# Thanks for the info. However i would still have loved some more
concrete problems with the windows version.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who took the time to answer.

dd


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