Project Gabriel: automated software deployment in a large commercial network
Owen H. Tallman · Digital technical journal · 1995
French bank to develop an automated software deployment facility, i.e., to provide centralized control of software installations and upgrades for a large network of computer systems. Independently, Digital had developed a set of models designed to guide the design of solutions to this type of complex management problem. The bank project team, which had considerable experience building distributed system management applications, was able to take advantage of these models. The result was a versatile, scalable application for distributed software deployment, validation of the models, and a clearer sense of the usefulness of such models to complex application problems.