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Congrats to box.net ... a great success story of a nimble startup kicking Sharepoint's and Documentum's butt. But the whole "end fo the low-cost Web startup"
by jdp23 16y ago
Congrats to box.net ... a great success story of a nimble startup kicking Sharepoint's and Documentum's butt. But the whole "end fo the low-cost Web startup" framing is just silly. box.net is infrastructure -- document storage infrastructure which, guess what, takes a lot of disk space. Disks are cheaper, but documents are a lot bigger these days. So yes it still costs a lot of money to scale to take on Microsoft and EMC. Film at 11.
The article's actual headline is much better.