Does anyone ever get any problems from users who don't want to apply the
cpu patches? For example, we have users who don't want to apply them
because:

1. the test system is different from the prod system (application-wise,
not system-wise)
2. testers are busy on other things and can't take time to test the
security changes
3. the prod system is in the middle of a critical process and no changes
can be made for some time period sometimes up to 4 weeks.

Issue #1 concerns me and leads to the question of what type of testing
do people require before installing the patch in prod.

I don't have a lot of sympathy for #2 since the patches are security
related and have big implications if not applied.

Number 3 is also valid. Not sure what to do about this.

Comments appreciated.

Joe
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