What is deployment?

[Steve Holden]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> claird at lairds.us (Cameron Laird) writes:
>> What might C. mean?  Say I install a program, but I still have to worry
>> about how I'm going to configure it within the cluster where I intend to
>> use it, AND I need to co-ordinate its configuration with the central 
>> database on which it depends, AND I have to tie it in to our license-
>> management system, AND there are issues with users sharing data and also
>> protecting data from each other, AND ...--well, all those things that 
>> happen after narrow-sense installation are still part of "deployment".
> 
> Deployment also refers to pre-installation issues, like buying the
> hardware that you're going to install on.

You *install* programs. You *deploy* "solutions" ;-)

regards
  Steve
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