Monday, July 18, 2005

Patch Tuesday Goes Industry-Wide

All eyes have been on Microsoft, which has standardized on issuing security and bug fixes on the second Tuesday of every month. It appears that a lot of other software industry companies are also flying in Microsoft's slipstream.

This is good news for the industry because it creates a cadence for the compauter industry, including; it is bad news because IT professionals can plan on being inundated every patch Tuesday with the patches, which they then have to test and integrate with other (patched) software and the enterprise's applications.

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