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DropBox takes on Box.net with business version
October 31, 2011 | Author: Adam Levine
The popular online file sharing service DropBox finally launches a version for business - DropBox for Teams. It differs from the regular DropBox by two things. First, it has an administrative panel to manage users and access rights. In the admin panel you can also pay for all business users. Second, when sharing files inside DropBox for Teams account, the free disk space is not decreased. (In the regular DropBox version if somebody shares for example 100 MB file to you, your disk space is reduced by 100 MB). However, DropBox wants business version users not to think about the free space at all. DropBox for Teams provides at least 1TB of free space. This is 2 times bigger than in the business version of the main competitor - Box.net
DropBox for Teams pricing starts at $795 per year for 5 users, i.e. approximately $13.25 per month per user. For comparison, Box.net costs $15 per user per month. However, the DropBox for Teams functionality still lags way behind Box.net. Box.net has a lot more in the way of features for collaboration, task management, file editing, integration with other business applications. And the security features are better in the Box.net.
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