[pca] Quarterly patch schedule

[Dave Stark]

Now that's interesting. Quite welcome I think in my case (should make the audit box-ticking exercises a lot simpler, and give the Admins some leverage for regular patching downtime), but perhaps not so welcome for those with machines on hostile networks if they have to wait months for security patches.

I wonder if this'll change the way patches will be delivered in the future. Does this spell the end of patchdiag.xref if patches are released in big chunks? Back to the Recommended Patch Clusters maybe.

I'm not familiar with how Oracle releases patches for its database - do they issue out-of-cycle emergency patches for high severity security bugs (the famous in-as-root Solaris telnet bug springs to mind)?

Hmmmm.

Dave

>New quarterly patch schedule.
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>http://www.pcworld.com/article/193865/suns_solaris_now_getting_quarterly_security_patches.html?tk=rss_news
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