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Dropbox is Sweet

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Rich pointed me at this nugget yesterday.
Dropbox is a small utility that solves a major pain point you’re familiar with if you have more than one computer or you’ve ever needed to transfer files between computers.
At least once a week, I have to transfer files between ... Continue reading »

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jack
9 months ago

Jake,

Any idea if Beehive (Oracle's next gen Collaboration Product) has anything similar?

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Jake
9 months ago

No idea, drop me a note, and I can put you in touch with the Beehive product team. You can ask them directly.

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pgkiran
9 months ago

I tried both FolderShare and DropBox and both could not work from within firewalls, Oracle blocks them as P2P services. That did not bother u?

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Jake
9 months ago

I haven't tried DropBox on inside the firewall yet, but I guess that would make sense.

Update: DropBox has a proxy preference, which I assume will work with firewalls/proxy servers.

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