Seems like most companies start out manually installing their computers. This works for awhile but then they run into a situation where they’re manually installing too many and realize that for the most part they’re all pretty much the same. That’s when products like Carbon Copy Cloner and Ghost (for those pesky Windows workstations) come into play. Suddenly they’re saving time by mounting up an image and restoring it. Then there is a collection of post-flight tasks they perform, like setting up user environments, settings and directory services bindings. Then, there are just too many for this, so people start doing network based imaging. Something like NetInstall, NetRestore, ASR or…