According to Note: 403325.1 ("Critical Patch Update Availability Information . . ."), the ONLY platform getting a Jan 2007 CPU for 9.2.0.6 is VMS. I'm stuck with several production databases as well!! Joe Cooper Senior Oracle DBA Dep't of Veteran Affairs Austin Automation Center Austin, TX "J. Dex" <cemail_219@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: It's my understanding that Oracle will nto be putting out a Jan 2007 CPU Patch for Oracle 9.2.0.6 on Linux. Does anybody know anything about this? Is this Oracle's way of forcing an upgrade to 9208? _________________________________________________________________ From predictions to trailers, check out the MSN Entertainment Guide to the Academy Awards® http://movies.msn.com/movies/oscars2007/?icid=ncoscartagline1 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.