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Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

From: <jkstill_at_gmail.com>
Date: 11 Oct 2005 10:41:40 -0700
Message-ID: <1129052500.794439.247840@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

hpuxrac wrote:
> jkstill_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> #> The fact that Oracle currently resembles a block of Swiss
> #> cheese from a security standpoint probably wouldn't matter,
> #> as I don't believe that is addressed.
>
> Well they do put out quarterly security updates and there are certainly
> some strong opinions on how effective and valuable and well tested
> these security updates are (or not).

Valuable: yes, there are opinions on this.

Effective: there are facts supporting the lack of effectiveness. There is little point in applying the security quarterly updates. They do not correct the vulnerabilities that Oracle claims they do. Received on Tue Oct 11 2005 - 12:41:40 CDT

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