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Altiris PC Transplant Pro 3.0	Miramar Desktop DNA 2.5
SCORE: 3.53COMPANY: Altiris, (801) 226-8500, www.altiris.com PRICE:10 to 99 nodes $28 per node. PROS: Best all-around product; lots of features and integration with the company’s other products.CONS: Doesn’t have an administrator’s console for migration purposes.	SCORE: 3.25COMPANY: Miramar Systems, (800) 862-2526, www.miramar.com PRICE: 100 nodes $30 per node. PROS: Most descriptive use of dialogs that detailed each step of the migration process.CONS:Requires administrator’s rights to run under Windows NT/2000.
Tranxition Personality Tranxport Professional 2.1	Symantec Ghost 7.0
SCORE: 3.25COMPANY: Tranxition, (866) 277-8776, www.tranxition.com PRICE:11 to 100 nodes $34.95 per node. PROS:Good support for migrating noncommercial applications. CONS: Documentation uses the older style Windows help files and is not as easy to use as some of the others.	SCORE: 3.03COMPANY: Symantec, (800) 568-9501, www.symantec.com PRICE:50 to 99 seats $16.13 per seat. PROS:Good use of administrator’s console with the ability to segment specific tasks by groups.CONS:Full control of client machines requires a separate partition on the local hard disk; no application migration support.
PowerQuest Migration Manager 2.1
SCORE: 2.15COMPANY: PowerQuest, (800) 379-2566, www.powerquest.com PRICE: 10 nodes $18 per node. PROS:Good integration with company’s Drive Image Pro product.CONS: Lots of manual editing required to accomplish primary migration task.
Scorecard PC Transplant Desktop DNA Personality Tranxport Pro Ghost 7.0* Migration Manager Administration 30% 3.5 3 3 4 2 Ease of use 25% 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 2 Performance 25% 4 3.5 3.5 2 2 Documentation 10% 3 3 3 2 3 Installation 10% 3 3 3 2.5 2.5 Total score 3.53 3.25 3.25 3.03 2.15
*Note: Only the personality migration functions of Ghost were tested for this review. Individual category scores are based on a scale of 1 to 5. Percentages are the weight given each category in determining the total score. Scoring key: 5: Exceptional showing in this category. Defines the standard of excellence; 4: Very good showing. Although there may be room for improvement, this product was much better than average; 3: Average showing in this category. Product was neither especially good nor exceptionally bad; 2: Below average. Lacked some features or lower performance than other products, or than was expected; 1: Considerably subpar, or lacking features being reviewed.