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The only reason we still use Dropbox rather than Box is that Dropbox is ubiquitous. For us this means one thing: There is a well-supported and maintained Linux
by buro9 13y ago
The only reason we still use Dropbox rather than Box is that Dropbox is ubiquitous.
For us this means one thing: There is a well-supported and maintained Linux client that just works.
I've no doubt we'll be giving Dropbox for Business a try, but it's pretty much because of the ubiquity rather than anything else.
- nader 13y agowe tried box and dropbox and went with dropbox as it supports LAN-Sync (tremendously helpful when you are shoving around Photoshop files) which box didn't at the time and the Linux client.
- buro9 13y agoOn the same topic, we thought about btsync as well. But ubiquity won out, there's a lot of convenience in being in a meeting and being able to check your phone and pulling up the latest copy of a document.
- davidu 13y agobox lets you pull up a file on your phone... we find the versioning and collaboration features of box to be far supperior to dropbox... lan sync is nice though, I didn't actually know dropbox had that.
- tensor 13y agoIn addition to these, the inability of box to handle mac bundle type files was a show stopper.
- theseanstewart 13y agoI just installed Box to take advantage of the free 50gb. The one critical thing I think Box is missing over Dropbox is being able to take advantage of sym links. Until then, Box is a boy among men.
- Filecloud 13y agoIf you have interest to try out a self hosted alternative, you might want to check out our product Tonido FileCloud. It has the ubiquity (Windows, Mac and Linux Sync Clients) you are asking for and have better admin controls than Dropbox for Business.
- bmw335 13y agoIf you have interest to try out a self hosted alternative, you might want to check out our product Tonido FileCloud. It has the ubiquity (Windows, Mac and Linux Sync Clients) you are asking for and have better admin controls than Dropbox for Business.