johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net (John Hurley) wrote in message news:<d4d6f278.0409060937.73efdae4_at_posting.google.com>...
> Then test test test and consider carefully the pros and cons of
> whether the fix that is being supplied is likely to improve (or not)
> any production environments before thinking/planning a rollout.
This advice is easy to say, but is hard to do it, especially if we're
talking about recent security alerts. There are no supplied
information with them, only: "Severity 1, must apply". We do not know
what it is patching, why, is it really serious for all configurations,
is it fixing remote exploit or only local one etc. So applying of
these patches is more or less the matter of trust (in Oracle) and not
a considering of pros/cons.
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Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 04:28:47 CDT
