New Box.Net Software Woos Sharepoint Users

The announcement of a redesigned interface, back-end security and admin for IT , plus integrations with cloud vendors Netsuite and VMware is designed to appeal to existing users of Microsoft Sharepoint.

"Taking repeated potshots at the bloated, feature-heavy Microsoft Sharepoint, Box.net on Thursday in Palo Alto, Calif., announced a new version of its software.

'For every one dollar spent in Sharepoint licenses, there's another $6 to $9 required to support that,' Box.net CEO Aaron Levie told a roomful of reporters and investors at the press conference. 'We've compressed that whole stack and delivered it as a single (offering) to our customers.'"