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It's not a matter of being cheap. With critical infratructure stuff like
databases, you don't throw patches on as soon as they come out. There's an
old saying in the IT biz that goes something like "the pioneers take the
arrows". You wait to let other people find the problems and report them.
After a time if nothing bad has been reported, you apply the patch on a test
system and let the user test group wring it out. Six months is not out of the
ordinary from when a patch is released until it's put on.
In a message dated 1/26/03 8:21:54 PM Pacific Standard Time,
prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Let's see....July 24th, wasn't that 6 MONTHS ago ?
> Wow, IMHO, the "cheapies" deserve to get "hit".
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