I was thinking more in terms of IT department savings. The
"create/maintain/deploy" human activities can be quite a bit more
expensive (IT consultants) than backoffice personnel, I would think.
Is that the case where you are?
With the new update technologies, I don't think this is a issue now.
Take example how Firefox updates itself without going through the pain
of manual deployment. Eclipse RCP has similar update manager, which is
used by Eclipse RCP based applications for auto update the new releases.
Thanks,
Raj