I have tested patching by provisioning pack in GC 10.2.0.4 and found no major flaws. Can't even think of minor ones ! best is to start a PoC in your environment, or even better, setup a testlab. vmware might help you setting up oracle servers quickly in my view the patching help from provisioning pack should be for free, bugs fixed by the patches are for free too. talk to your oracle sales rep to find out if they want to buy that! regards, Andre 2008/10/27 Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> > > Just curious what kind of experience folks here have had with the > provisioning pack. > > It is supposed to greatly simplify patching, but I would like to find > out if the reality matches the marketing hype. > > Thanks! > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > >