Simple answer, no. Which leads to the issue of which versions of Red Hat will run on what hardware. Note to Business folks: should the current hardware become nonfunctional and unsupportable then these databases are dead, period, start crying. Richard Goulet Senior Oracle DBA/Na Team Leader -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hans Forbrich Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:07 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read? At the risk of hijacking the thread, curiosity compels the question: Does the OS change under those 8.1.7 environments? (If yes, do you go through the same recert process? If no, how do you maintain security?) /Hans On 21/06/2011 8:50 AM, Goulet, Richard wrote: > Yes, there are folks still running 8.1.7. We've 4 instances, business > critical, and "no you can't upgrade those, it's take us a year to > re-certify them". > > Richard Goulet > Senior Oracle DBA/Na Team Leader > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Litchfield > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:29 AM > To: Wolfgang Breitling > Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Securing Oracle, where to start? what to read? > > On 20/06/2011 20:28, Wolfgang Breitling wrote: >> What do you mean "a wee bit old"? There are people out there who are >> still running Oracle 8i !! >> > I mean "old" insofar as the books were written before my research on > cursor snarfing, cursor injection, lateral sql injection etc, etc... > Maybe I should write a second edition :) Cheers, David > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l