Suggestion : Patch Testing before phased deployment

A lot of us have been helping Symantec testing the NIS and NAV 2010 Beta for obvious reasons :

- Symantec people cannot simulate all production environments.

- Stability testing of the code

- and so on.....

 

First a question : is there a similar group testing Patches to the Norton products?

 

And if not, my second question : why not form a group of people willing to test patches, before they are deployed in a phased manner?

 

A lot of people are spending a great deal of time in finding solutions to 'patch problems'. I think this time can be better spent on patch testing. Symantec and we all will benefit from that.

 

This is my opinion; glad to hear your's.

 

Grtz. Hugo