Deployment Costs Once developed, debugged, and tested, an application is ready for deployment. It captures the spirit of UNIX packaging to say that no two vendors package their applications quite the same way. The process of making sure that customers can successfully install and run the applications they've bought can be difficult to implement and test because of the range of customer configurations. In the world of Win32, standardized installers that read package description files and use them to install application components have resolved this problem. Windows NT also offers a network licensing API that allows developers to maintain control over the distribution and deployment of their product on LANs and WANs.
Some applications have to be administered once they're deployed.
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