Looks like Mercury got snapped up by HP. I am a little suprised; Mercury was a major presence in the Siebel testing market, with the only product availible really. And they were a growing operator in the Siebel monitoring market, with Mercury Business Avalibility Center, and SiteScope for Siebel. I guess they couldn't take the competitive pressure from VA2 ;) .

This is a very interesting article about Siebel on Sun. There is a lot of in depth technical information, this is not a marketing brochure you might expect to see from certain *unnamed* OS and Application software vendors. http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/perf_tune_siebel_sun.html