Oracle stability on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003

Hello everyone,
since the beginning of my career in the database world (5 years ago), I work in a company where the operating system we are using is windows.
Since the beginning, we are shutting down and restarting every database server (including the OS) on a weekly basis to ensure stability I suppose.
My question is:
Is it still a "good practice" to do that (restarting every database server)? On windows 2000? On windows 2003?
If it is still a "good practice", should it be done on a weekly basis or more on a monthly basis?
Thank's for any input on this open question.
Best regards,
Carl

I ran a 9i RAC on Win2K3 for over 16 months and only periodic reboots for maintenance (OS patches). I had a scheduled time each month (4 hours) to shutdown, take a cold backup, patch the OS, and get everything back up in time for production. This seemed to work just fine. I would caution not to upgrade all your nodes with the OS patches at the same time, however. Leapfrog them so a single bad patch doesn't kill your entire DB.

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But what about nal objects? For example Microsoft patches. You don't want Xp
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>
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