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Difference between Box and Ubuntu One

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1. Box :
Box is a cloud storage and file hosting service provided by Box Incorporation. It was developed by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. It is basically a cloud content management and file sharing service for business. It offers 10 GB storage space. It was launched by Box Incorporation in 2005. It is available for Windows, macOS and other platforms.

2. Ubuntu One :
Ubuntu One was a file hosting service, file synchronization service and cloud service which was provided by Canonical Limited. It was an OpenID based single sign-on service. It provided services for storing files on cloud and also streaming of music from cloud. It was developed by Canonical Ltd. It was suitable for Windows, OS X, iOS, Ubuntu and Android. It offered 5 GB free storage space. It was launched in 2009.



Difference between Box and Ubuntu One :

BOX UBUNTU ONE
It is owned by Box Incorporation. It was owned by Canonical Limited.
It was launched in 2005. It was launched in 2009.
It offers 10 GB free storage space. It offered 5 GB free storage space.
It was developed by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. It was developed by Canonical Ltd.
It has the maximum storage size of 100 GB for personal accounts and unlimited for business accounts. Maximum storage size was unlimited here.
It is still in use. This service was suspended in 2014.
Files stored here are encrypted. Files stored in Ubuntu One were not encrypted.
Maximum file size is 250 MB for free and 5 GB for paid. Maximum file size was 5 GB per file.
It is a file hosting, file synchronization and cloud storage service. It was a commercial file synchronization service.
It has traffic or band-width limit of 10 GB per month for free and 2 TB per month for paid. It has Amazon S3 limits as traffic or band-width limit.
It supports Windows, OS X, Android, BlackBerry and iOS. It supported Windows, OS X, iOS, Ubuntu and Android.
It has limited freeware version. It had freeware version.


Last Updated : 23 Jun, 2020
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