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Testable system administration

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Models of determinism are changing IT management.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 3
          March 2011
          116 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/1897852
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