Tritoch (3/3/2014)
We do everything we can to keep our applications online. We avoid patches...
I would much rather take a small amount of periodic planned downtime to patch than have a large amount of unplanned downtime when my unpatched systems get infected, compromised or crash due to a bug that should've been patched. Plus there are often optimizations that come from patching as well.
I think that there is a balance to be made. For in-house applications I would hope that the development team wouldn't have the impression that they could release on an ad-hoc basis. I know, and benefit from, the agile principle of releasing little and often but updates to systems interacting with others should not be taken lightly.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!