A blog post on the official Clementine website on Wednesday announced that the workplace collaboration company has now been acquired by Dropbox.
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While Clementine did offer a high quality service, it did not bring enough novel ideas to its services, so that it could distinguish itself from similar companies.
The Clementine service will be shutting down.
Clementine’s technology targets internal communications such as conference calls and chat services where workers are connecting through personal devices rather than using personal phone numbers.
Unfortunately, the free parts of the service will only continue to function until the end of this August.
With Dropbox’s acquisition of Clementine, it will be able to resolve this matter and keep its users on its own platform even while they talk about their uploaded data. It remains unknown what this service actually is. The first customers, who will be transitioned to the new app will be the regular and premium subscribers, Clementine’s spokespersons have declared. It could be this technology that motivated the cloud-sharing provider’s decision. Therefore it was competing with many companies that were far more authoritative than it was, which meant that its success could be limited at best. The company since, has delivered many fantastic services including BYOD, OTT, and WebRTC.
Dropbox’s plans are probably amongst those lines.
Dropbox claims 100,000 business users including big names like MIT and Hard Rock Cafe but is facing stiff competition from companies such as Box and Egnyte that aimed at enterprise early.
Two months ago, Dropbox has also bought and shut down Umano, a tool that provided voice-over services.
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Dropbox has reassured customers that they will be just as dedicated to the companies they work for as they have been in the past.
