[fidotron]

This sets alarm bells off for me, of the kind saying the large investors are looking to claw as much back as possible via IPO because the core business isn't as viable as they thought. Demonstrating profitable quarters in the run up to IPO is highly valuable, so if they aren't doing that . . . yuck.

DropBox, for better or worse, appear to have cleaned up on the consumer front, and you'd have to be blind to not notice the trend these days is consumer tech getting into enterprise IT, and not vice versa. GDrive isn't too hot, yet, but I'm sure they'll eventually get there. Then MS probably have the biggest motivation to chase the enterprise market.

Sorry Box, I just don't see this working out at all. Something smells bad.

[sfall]

i have started to see it used in the construction industry, when the general contractor already has some infrastructure typically on a windows domain. that is where they are going to push for further and further integration for business and project mgmt

[us0r]

But MS is pushing their product now and is in a war with Google to basically give this stuff away for free.