Re: Patching Becoming a Major Resource Drain for Companies

2003-08-20 09:21

Forwarded from: Mark Bernard Dear Associates, MS has not done a good job at managing this very important process. They are continuing to muddle around and not tackle this effectively. Since they have mostly borrowed all the technology that they currently have from someone else, why don't they go back to Big Blue were they started and get this right from the pros. I have work with Big Blues and Application Systems 400 servers for 14 years now. BTW: they have never been infected by a viruse since their introduction to the public in 1989. BTW: there are now around 900,000 400 servers in the world today. On the 400 there is a regular program that follows a monthly routine with built in software that can be used to distribute Preventative Software Fixes (PTFs) to either clustered 400s or networked 400s. You get an overview of the fix it tells you in English what it will do and or change on your system before you load it. You can then load it in temporary state on a mirrored logical partition and run it to see what's going on before applying it permanently. You also have the option of removing it. Why can't Microsoft get this right with all the money that they now have of ours? Regards, Mark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "InfoSec News" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:10 AM Subject: [ISN] Patching Becoming a Major Resource Drain for Companies

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