Box.net answered to Google Docs intervention

Perhaps, the Box.net owners were not very happy to know that Google Docs became an online file storage service, and thus, their rival. But their answer was not long in coming. Recently Box.net introduced universal Flash-based file viewer, which allows you to view almost any file stored in Box.net account online, without downloading it to your computer. This may be an office document, picture, flash, audio or video (over 20 file types). In addition, you can publish any file (in the flash-viewer) on your website or share it with certain employees or clients, so that they could view it and leave their comments. Perhaps it's the perfect solution when you want to send a presentation, technical documentation or design temlate to your customer. You don't need to worry that the client has specific software installed to open the file.

Besides this new viewer, Box.net also provides the ability to edit office documents online in Zoho editors, as well as view them using Scribd. Moreover, Box.net provides a platform for developers (OpenBox), that enables to create add-ons for online viewing or editing any file type.

Box.net had a fantastic year 2009, showing 500% revenue growth. The service is now up to 3.5 million users with over 100 million files stored.