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Agreed. I would not have believed it if you told me three years ago, but box.com is positioning to significantly outpace dropbox in the enterprise space (i.e., the pay for service space). I work with banks and law firms. Dropbox is perceived as the devil (though I don't think it's as bad as our IT admin makes it out to be). On the other hand, many have formally adopted a branded versions of box.com. Crazy.

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Box has very confusing pricing for personal use. Why limit file size? Makes no sense.

They are also 2x times as expensive as Dropbox. $20/month only gets me 50gb on box.com, whereas I get 100gb with dropbox. And no annoying file size restriction.

Dropbox teams also seem like a much better deal.

Frankly, in my experience, it's all about perceived security. That and the utility of setting permissions for third party access with read/modify logs. It's kind of like Merrill's data room, but web 2.0'y and faster/more user friendly.

Dropbox was easier (I loved being able to right click a zip file sitting in my public folder), but our clients told us it was too risky to have a document sitting on an open live link without password/user access control. We're currently using sendthisfile.com, but I believe we're moving to box.com soon. We're a top end AmLaw 200 firm.

I was quoted $480/year per user on Box.net (80 users). Dropbox may not be as good as them, but is a satisfactory solution based on their significantly lower pricing.

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