Everyone seems surprised that a major vendor would even consider such a short patch upgrade frequency. I have worked with Oracle since 1989 on IBM mainframes, and it used to be a regular process to receive such updates on a consistent basis. I can even recall applying patches which causes database crashes, indicating the concept of regression testing was absolutely nonexistent in those days! Michael Fontana Sr. DBA NTT/Verio -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Boivin, Patrice J Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:08 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: End of the month is coming Does that mean we should expect another patchset from Oracle within a week? ;-) Patrice -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l