In praise of … Dropbox
It’s only when you start using something to meet a real need that you work out how good or bad it is.
We’ve been engaged in a major project for the last couple of months – of which more might be revealed in time (client confidentiality permitting).
One thing that became unwieldy very quickly was the exchange of documents with our client as attachments to email. Too many to keep tabs on with some files being too fat for our Managed Exchange host.
I thought a quick fix might be Dropbox. I didn’t realise at the time how valuable it would become – vital in fact. Version control, alerts when files have been updated, flexible sharing controls, dead easy to grow file folder structures, back up – it’s got the lot. And it’s free for up to 2GB of storage.
How long this public cloud application will be free at entry level will be interesting to monitor. It’s brilliant and deserves to become a commercial success.
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