What is deployment? (was: A Few More Forrester Survey Questions)

[Paul Rubin]

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.