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I would not infer that the "list of the applications and programs" would mean the "source code of the applications".

I would assume its literally what it says, the lists most big orgs maintain of their standard system configuration(s).

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I wouldn't assume that at all. They say "a list of the applications and programs", not "program listing...". In this case, it reads to me as just that, a list, such as Word xx.xx, Outlook xx.xx, girlfriend 2.0, ms-dos 5.5, etc.

That's what I meant (see the second sentence). The first sentence of my post was, however, originally missing a "not" (now added), so I see the confusion.

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