Or you can copy your hard drive onto a disk image file and that image can then be used as a template to be copied to other hard drives. For the average consumer, the product isn't very useful. But for a corporation, which may have thousands of servers and PCs littered throughout its organization, having a quick way to duplicate a system can mean big cost savings. For example, Ghost can take a 300-Mbyte Win95 system and duplicate it on another workstation in about five minutes. The software also works seamlessly in networked environments.
Ghost is also easy to use.
Instead, Ghost uses a simple user interface. But having a good product is only the first step. You need to find a way to get people to buy it. That is, his credit card would not have been able to afford the shelf space at CompUSA or Egghead. But, with the Internet, Luty was able to establish his own virtual software store and Ghost was perfect for the Web.