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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/07/2020 20:01, Michael Holloway
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            configuration management differ from normal, sensible
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    <p><font size="4"><b>It doesn't.</b></font></p>
    <p><font size="4"><b>I'm merely pointing out that, by common
          standards of practice, it has to be *very* disciplined. All CM
          processes I've seen control the artefacts produced in the
          process. The only one I've ever seen that controls the tools
          is the Altran-Praxis CM process that they used for iFacts,
          among other projects. When, as I have done for the best part
          of three decades, I've proposed to clients that they should
          control tools as well as artefacts, all but those you could
          count on a mutilated hand have actually balked at the idea.</b></font></p>
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    <p><font size="4"><b>Olwen</b></font></p>
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