Open vs. Closed: The Cloud Wars - NYTimes.com

Thinking outside the Box

"On the other side, the cloud storage company Box announced Tuesday a service that enables customers of several specialized cloud software companies to share their data broadly among these companies. The idea is that customers of SugarCRM, a maker of sales management software, could collaborate internally and externally (with permissions and controls) by sharing select data onto the software of Jive Software, which is used in corporate communications. Others in the partnership include Concur, Cornerstone OnDemand, DocuSign, Eloqua, FuzeBox, NetSuite, Zendesk – and Oracle, but probably just for its databases, which are used widely in the cloud."

Open vs. Closed: The Cloud Wars - NYTimes.com