Today, the companies are valued at $2.1 billion and $7.4 billion.ĭropbox and Box began as cloud storage companies. At its peak, Box and Dropbox had market valuations of more than $4 billion and $16.82 billion respectively. The two companies went public in 20 respectively and earlier optimism has faded. As a result, their respective CEOs were idolized in the technology industry.
The two companies had pioneered a new dimension in data storage and content sharing. I like that you can sync specific subfolders to a computer, but it is more tedious or technical to set up compared to Dropbox.A few years ago, Box ( NYSE: BOX) and Dropbox ( NASDAQ: DBX) were among the best-known technology companies in their world. It works great, and has an optional lifetime purchase plan: You have perpetual use for a one-time payment. But for file sharing it didn't work as well, and our plan didn't allow for enough storage space compared to the other options. It is great for collaborative documents and spreadsheets, and does OK with some other types of projects. Google Drive is another service we used in tandem with the others. Even though it was locally hosted, it was slower than Dropbox. It didn't sync files as well, couldn't preview some file types, and had other technical problems. However, it's UI is clunky compared to Dropbox's. Nextcloud is a self-hosted solution, and is the system preferred by our IT department - mainly because it is free or has no annual subscription cost.
Of all the options we tried, Dropbox was at the top in terms of performance, reliability, and features.
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