In November 2008, Microsoft made its announcement that it would begin selling a web-based version of Sharepoint in 2010. With Google apps already making serious inroads into the SMB and Enterprise market, one has to wonder whether it's too little, too late. Being late to the dance does not even take into account that the web version will be inferior to its client server version. By business model necessity, this has to be so because of Microsoft will not allow its 100,000 plus licenses fall to the wayside.

A lot of the attendees from AICPA Tech+ were kind enough to take the time and filled out a survey for us during the exhibition. We wanted to utilize the opportunity we had with our community to try to gain a better understanding on what each and every user is looking for so we can continue to develop and improve.

Here are some of the results we got:

Gartner Research Director Frank Kenney is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) space. He publishes the Magic Quadrant report on MFT, and gets asked regularly by company CIOs and IT directors for advice on the virtues of a MFT solution.

This may sound like the beginning of a lame joke, but... did you ever hear about the story of the woman who bought her elderly mother a new mattress and after throwing out the old mattress, the mom remembers that she had stashed in her mattress $1 million cash? That's exactly the what I heard this morning on the radio as I was driving to work this morning.
 

A recent article was published on USA Today that covered a well-known vendor for file transfer services and also mentioned several others within this space. Obviously, I read this with great interest, but was initially dismayed that LeapFILE was not even mentioned, even though I had a quick chat with the reporter who wrote this article when he was doing his research.

Every once in awhile, we get asked the question “we’re considering your service and [insert file hosting service here]…what’s the difference?”  Most people who ask this question usually want to achieve one thing – to get files from one person to another.  While you can technically use a file hosting service to send a file to someone and thus may seem the same as a file transfer service, they are in fact very different in the way they work and should be used.