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Study: Two-Thirds of Users Don't Deploy Oracle Quarterly Critical Patches

I have not been to one client in my career that has the dedicated staff required to track, test, and deploy all of the various patches for all of the various applications in the enterprise in a timely manner. I understand the world from the vendor's perspective - they're trying to avoid lawsuits, mainly. But Oracle found out in the first two years of the PeopleSoft merger that most companies aren't going to drop millions of dollars just because Oracle thinks it's a good idea.

I sense a new model approaching - I'm just not smart enough to know what it will look like (or else I'd implement it and retire)...