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Box.net Gathers Funding to Take on SharePoint

Ambitious little document-sharing cloud vendor Box.net has raised an additional $15 million in venture funding for its fight to dethrone Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, which just happens to be a billion-dollar business for Microsoft these days. Well, $30 million -- Box.net's total venture haul to date -- is a start, we suppose. A pretty small start…

Posted by Lee Pender on April 08, 2010


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