Run Oracle? Want to sleep tonight? Then sort these 113 patches

Wednesday 16th July 2014 07:48 GMT Otto is a bear.

Wow 113 Patches

Just proves how poor their software really is. Oh wait you said quarterly, and across the product range then, so not that many then. How many did Microsoft release in the last 3 months for all their products.

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1. Wednesday 16th July 2014 09:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Wow 113 Patches
  
  Yeah, part of the issue is the number of products currently under support due to a history of mergers/takeovers. The site lists 12 product groups, some of which cover multiple products (e.g. Fusion middleware has Glassfish, iPlanet, Weblogic and others).
  
  As for the 3 monthly cycle, that also means that there's potentially a larger window for zero day vulnerabilities, but it does make planning patching cycles (particularly for e.g. PCI-DSS) significantly simpler.
  
  Of course, Java is still a buggy pile of poo and has the majority of the vulnerabilities, mostly for client side Java.
  
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2. Wednesday 16th July 2014 22:08 GMT PrivateCitizen
  
  Re: Wow 113 Patches
  
  "Oh wait you said quarterly, and across the product range then, so not that many then. How many did Microsoft release in the last 3 months for all their products."
  
  I could be wrong, but a quick check on Technet shows MS issued 9 patches in May, 7 in June and 6 in July so that is 22 in the last three months. The numbering system implies MS has issued 42 in the seven months of this year.
  
  But this overlooks two main issues:
  
  1) issuing lots of patches doesnt necessarily mean your software is dodgy (it could mean you are just much better at finding and patching holes than anyone else).
  
  2) Using MS as the example really is setting the bar low.
  
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Wednesday 16th July 2014 08:33 GMT Anonymous Coward

That's how "unbreakable" their products were

Enough said. To be fair, they dropped that campaign in 2005 or so, but I always remember how they could be so presumptuous and at the same time fool their customers so well. Note that "customers" refers to whoever makes the purchase decision, who is not usually the same person that has to suffer its consequences (DBAs, developers, sysadmins)

To be clear, their core database is a damn good fine, if equally expensive, product. The rest is most... well, if you have used them, you know better.

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1. Wednesday 16th July 2014 09:21 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: That's how "unbreakable" their products were
  
  Are you sure they dropped unbreakable?
  
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2. Wednesday 16th July 2014 09:47 GMT Down not across
  
  Re: That's how "unbreakable" their products were
  
  To be clear, their core database is a damn good fine, if equally expensive, product. The rest is most... well, if you have used them, you know better.
  
  I disagree. Databases are like operating systems. They all suck. Just in different ways and amounts.
  
  Whichever RDBMS you pick, it is a case of you win some you lose some.
  
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