Combining CPU(Critical patch Updates) with Year-End patches, good/bad idea?

Hello all,
I hoping to get some expert opinion on some upcoming patches to our environment. We are 3 releases being on applying CPU's to our environment and it is that time of year where testing is needed for Year-end patches. Does anyone see any issues with combining the year-end and CPU's? Would it be recommended that we hold off on the applying CPU's because of not experiencing any major problems in our environement, then schedule to gradually get up to date once the year-end patches are in place?
The desire to install CPU's is to not fall too far being on the CPU's.
Thanks in advance for any recommendations.

My recommendation is to combine the CPUs with the rest of your patches. CPUs do not affect functionality - they patch security holes/issues in software. Since you will be testing for yearend patches, you can take advantage of this opportunity to also include CPU patches, else separate testing and downtime will be required for the CPU patches. This is the approach we have in our organization. We have yet to encounter an issue with this approach.
HTH
Srini

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Hello gurus,
I´m faccing with a problem... After I update the patch set to 10.2.0.4 and install the interim patches for Linux X86_64 now I´m trying to import/install the Oracle Critical Patch Update - Oracle CPU patch!!
I´m trying to import it with OPatch, and I already update this OPatch tool for the last version even before proceeding with installation of Oracle CPU!
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GENERIC OPATCH VERSION - FOR USE IN SAP ENVIRONMENT ONLY
========================================================
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Copyright (c) 2008, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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pks2512 wrote:
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