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What Is Configuration Management?
By Informit.com
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Article Date: 2003-04-10
Configuration, "to form from or after," derives from the Latin com-, meaning "with" or "together," and figurare, "to form." It also means "a relative arrangement of parts or elements."
Configuration management therefore refers to managing a relative arrangement of parts or elements. It's as simple as that. Configuration management, as we know it today, started in the late 1960s. In the 1970s, the American government developed a number of military standards, which included configuration management.
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