From today’s USA today, some interesting info on the file sharing market place:
“Gartner analyst Frank Kenney says the managed-file business is worth $600 million today and will grow to $1 billion by 2012.
“Our e-mail boxes have gotten smaller, we’re not getting the room we necessarily want to have to send big files, and we need help,” he says.
Fueling the demand for file-transfer services: File sizes are growing. Higher megapixel counts on digital cameras mean bigger file sizes for photos. And the popularity of homemade video creates a problem for folks who want to e-mail clips. Video files are huge: One hour of uncompressed video is 13 GB.”