Lets clarify a little. Individual patches (for a specific bug), if not already available, are released according to the severity and technical/business justification of the customer issue - so that's an ad-hoc process.
We now collect important patches together into a Patch Set Update, released quarterly. This also includes the Critical Patch Update, which on s390x we don't release separately after examination of customer downloads. The PSU are available on s390x pretty much simultaneously with all other platforms - they may be a day or 2 out, but we aim for simultaneous release - the January 2010 is due any day now. Patchsets do have delay, depending on the complexity of the underlying changes. With the introduction of the PSU, this is far less critical than it used to be, as the quarterly PSU takes care of issues related to stability. Cheers Damian -----Original Message----- From: Agblad Tore [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 January 2010 09:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Oracle on s390x, patches release same time as x86 ? I have heard s390x is not tier 1 platform so patches is released later than for tier 1 (x86?) Someone knows how this works ? If a timedelay, how long time ?? I'm waiting for a response from Oracle as well. Cordialement / Vriendelijke Groeten / Best Regards / Med Vänliga Hälsningar Tore Agblad Volvo Information Technology Infrastructure Mainframe Design & Development SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden E-mail: [email protected] http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
