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Configuration management must move beyond its traditional development-time concerns with source files. Future software systems will be delivered in binary form and will be composed from pre-existing systems. The term Post-Deployment Configuration Management is proposed to address the problems introduced in managing these new kinds of versioned configurations.

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Heimbigner, D., Wolf, A.L. (1996). Post-Deployment Configuration Management. In: Sommerville, I. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0023098

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