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To: DiViT who wrote (63478)11/27/2001 6:29:18 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Respond to of 74651
 
Yesterday I patched the system I'm sitting at, and I ended up doing required reboots at least half a dozen times. To be fair, though, I hadn't done any patches in a while, and some of the patches weren't Microsoft's (rather things like video card BIOS, etc.). The whole process was precipitated by the addition of a TV card which refused to work until the magic elixir was applied.

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (TM)



To: DiViT who wrote (63478)11/28/2001 2:53:37 PM
From: dybdahl  Respond to of 74651
 
Most servers that need patches are simply not under proper surveillance, and they would never have been installed, if proper surveillance was part of the original budget.

And there are a lot of servers that are not patched because it would require a test setup that simply isn't there.

In other words, most servers are not patches because of the way costs are controlled. Companies that have proper TCO control do patch their servers.


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