Security Analysis Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2008
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OVERVIEW The product versions supported by Oracle's Critical Patch Updates (CPU) are a subset of the certified versions, thus a certified version may not be supported by the latest CPU. This document highlights the differences between certified versions and January 2008 CPU supported versions. The significant changes to the version support matrices for the January 2008 CPU are – ORACLE DATABASE 10.2.0.2 is only supported on a limited set of platforms, which does not include any version of Windows nor Solaris SPARC.
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