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by swampthinker 3656 days ago
I can attest to this. I do some tech support for a growing construction company nearby, and I just tossed out their aging server. Moved all their data to Dropbox and set it up on the PM's laptops. Took me about a week of answering questions before they were all happy and smooth again.
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Agreed. We had a SMB share on our network that had grown increasingly unused. Since there wasn't a business processes in place users organically started using Dropbox to communicate with clients.

Eventually they have you because then you realize that you have so much business information in them that you can't let employees walk out the door with.