> Shares software installations are (a) only possible if you're using a
> cluster file system (so if your cluster storage of choice is, say, raw
> or ASM, then forget it) and (b) prevent you from doing rolling
> upgrades (which are problematic anyway, it has to be said). Since
> there's only one installation, you patch it -and if the patching
> requires databases to be stopped, they all have to stop for the
> duration. On the other hand, of course, you only have to patch once
> and not 8 times, so it's a case of swings and roundabouts.
>
> Regards
> HJR
Thank you HJR, simple and concise.
Received on Mon Jul 30 2007 - 13:12:18 CDT
