[ThomPete]

Dropbox has a scaling problem.

Not from a technical point of view but from a usage point of view especially when we talk enterprise.

Dropbox is great for small teams or personal accounts. As long as there are very few owners of the files stored there.

The problems starts to arise when larger groups of people use it as a place to store files. At that point it basically looses it's value namely because its no longer possible to find what you need simply by going to dropbox.

Instead what you now have to do is to find a given person working on a given project and then ask them where they put their files.

Dropbox will have to solve this problem either by adding some sort of history trail or by providing a better contextual search algorithm (files that James Jameson worked on in 2013 on project X)

From what I have seen in that area they are currently solving the wrong problems (again from a usage point of view)

[markkanof]

This is just a new version of the network share that many companies have had in place for years. The standard computer setup at a company might include for example a T: drive where all employees are told to store their files. Usually this was intended as a way to allow collaboration on documents, as well as IT not having to backup individual computers. The network share will usually have various levels of organization depending on who is working in any particular folders. Not saying it isn't a problem that could use solving, but it's not new to Dropbox.

[ThomPete]

Oh I agree completely. My point was exactly that they didn't solve this problem and that I think it's worth solving. Otherwise it doesn't "deserve" to be in the enterprise world IMHO.

Dropbox even have most of the necessary meta data and have the potential to solve it via their large app install base.