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cuch of the software literature treats maintenance as being

monolithic.About this we think viewpoint of
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it¶s continue to receive revenue from the product .
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product removed from the market.

These five stages do not have a rigid wall between them,but

there is a continual decline in the technical quality of the
software as it proceeds through its lifetime.