[freedude]

"I’ve never seen the argument for that move beyond a bare proclamation like you’ve just made."

Do you work in an industry that requires a specific service level to be maintained? How many hours per day? What does downtime cost? What does redundancy cost?

We have situations that cost millions of dollars per hour when downtime occurs. Now how do you protect those systems?

A definition of Hubris is not believing something exists because you haven't seen it before.

Our tasks as Systems Administrators is not to make a career out of updating systems for maintenance patches. Our task is to design systems to minimize updates and then redesign systems to eliminate wasted user interaction and downtime.