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Their service is primarily for consumers and many large companies won't use them, favoring an in-house solution or an offering from a specialized company. That'
by jbob2000 11y ago
Their service is primarily for consumers and many large companies won't use them, favoring an in-house solution or an offering from a specialized company. That's a dangerous position to be in, as consumers are fickle and are liable to drop the service at a moment's notice.
Dropbox is probably trying to position themselves as a secure data storage solution for larger organizations. Being on Amazon scares away a lot of people. I'm sure we'll hear about some new paid services from them which will be compliant with all manner of regulations. This will open them up to huge multi-million dollar contracts and they'll get baked into some big companies for years to come.
- JonFish85 11y ago"Dropbox is probably trying to position themselves as a secure data storage solution for larger organizations. Being on Amazon scares away a lot of people. I'm sure we'll hear about some new paid services from them which will be compliant with all manner of regulations. This will open them up to huge multi-million dollar contracts and they'll get baked into some big companies for years to come." Isn't that Box's business plan?
- toyg 11y ago> Dropbox is probably trying to position themselves as a secure data storage solution for larger organizations. Being on Amazon scares away a lot of people. I don't think the people scared by Amazon would not be scared by a company with Condoleeza Rice on the board. Amazon is already compliant with all those regulations you speak of -- they host large swaths of USGov infrastructure, after all. More likely, DB people have simply come to the realization that, at their scale, AWS is extremely expensive for what it delivers. Being a technology company, they are not scared by the thought of building and maintaining their own iron in order to make substantial savings. Their core business is storage, after all.