Absolutely true, the ERP space is an absolute nightmare to patch and maintain. People often forget when they are putting their money down how much the servicing costs. I really think that the gartners of the world need to have a category for how easy it is to manage maintain and update

Now also on my personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/trum...

Although oracle did say if you had applied in July critical patch update you would not be vulnerable... Something that later turned out to be not true. My point was really around just how much effort it is to patch oracle instances. It isn't the same as patching Microsoft windows applications

When I hear people say "just apply the patches" if it's pertaining to oracle you know that they just don't understand the reality

It can take even an organisation with huge amounts of resources months of planning to apply one CPU in its entirety across a whole different set of e-business suite..

There's something that people just don't understand which is how God awfully difficult it is to patch oracle instances. They really need to make it easier to apply patches. In fact if there's one thing they could do to improve their security it would be to make it easier to apply the security fixes

although this one is probably my favourite

if we are talking about terrible marathon photos that you paid for can i present

Or make it the law that it must be possible in the car entertainment system to set it to button only... I think I cannot mind I need an odbc programmer

yes but you can legislate against HW and people want to have laws as criminals have been known to always follow them - stop using logic when there is a law to be made

I've seen those, and they're really expensive for what they are. I think the manufacturers of the impacted cars should be forced to provide them free of charge or an updated keep on implements the exact same technology

Indeed, that is my worry as well. I don't have a problem with making the devices illegal as the fix is going to have a very long tail. But Put in legislation that stops manufacturers from selling vulnerable cars in the first place