In the world of imaging computers for redistribution there are a handful of options. Of course, like many utilities of this nature there are two greatly stratified layers--lots of stuff under $100, most of it junk, and a few enterprise players like LANDesk, Altiris, ZenWorks, and Microsoft's SMS.
A lot of mid-sized companies aren't ready to bite the bullet and spend the tens of thousands of dollars to get one of the enterprise suites but they need something more than Norton Ghost. While I still haven't found that ideal middle ground for clients, I do now have replacement for Ghost and that is Acronis True Image. I purchased it last week and it's really a slick imaging piece of software. The images with normal compression are almost half the size of Norton Ghost's images and it's really slick to use. Our Lenovo laptop build with all updates, A/V, the I386 directory, and Office 2003 complete are less than 4 GB and can be loaded onto a CD. The imaging portion of it is worth the price alone but there's a console as well that I've not even looked at yet. So far it's been flawless.
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