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I like the idea, but the pricing seems unreasonable. $15/mo/user (over 35 users) for what? With dropbox or box at least you get the storage space off-premise. All this does is sync your files across your own hardware.

I'm in a company looking for an enterprise-grade solution for our 5,000+ users, but this quickly became a non-option when I saw the pricing.

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If you're looking for a solution for 5,000 users, we should chat :) Feel free to shoot me an email at yuri@aerofs.com

We use Microsoft OneDrive which is bundled with our office 365 license. Pretty good. Strongly recommended.

> We use Microsoft OneDrive which is bundled with our office 365 license. Pretty good. Strongly recommended.

I'd like to pitch in until the parent clarifies but they probably mean OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business. To anyone reading this, please stay away from OneDrive for Business. It is NOT OneDrive and you will regret using it.

Yeah, I can confirm this comment... We are using OneDrive for Business for various reasons, I strongly advice to stay away from OneDrive for Business if you can...

I'm just looking for a dozen users or so, and $15/mo/user is somewhat expensive, given that I'm providing the server, the disks, the backups, the user support, etc. I'd be willing to pay a few grand a year for my entire enterprise (and I'm seriously considering it), but it's hard to justify ten grand a year for 'Dropbox but authenticated to our LDAP database'.

yuri already chimed in, but if I were ever in a position to be paying over 5k/mo for a service I think I'd be contacting sales no matter what! Startup B2B companies are nearly always willing to work with you on pricing.

What's also unreasonable is that 31 users means 31$15/mo not 30$0 + 1*$15/mo which is disappointing. 30 people is a medium company and I just feel like going from $0 -> $465/mo is a BIG jump.

> I like the idea, but the pricing seems unreasonable. $15/mo/user (over 35 users) for what?

Yeah it seems like a good idea but the value proposition confuses me. Granted I understand most enterprise software works like this but when you have to buy all of the resources to handle the files it sounds really expensive for just some light software.

There is also http://www.emitcloud.com/home

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