What Makes Tower 48 Different from Other Escrow Companies?
Tower 48 is a high-tech, secure, inexpensive, simple, and flexible digital escrow service created specifically for the software industry. Many other escrow companies require mailing a CD or DVD with the files to them to be physically stored in a vault. Often, customers of escrow companies simply pay for a certain amount of space in a physical vault (“You will get one cubic foot of storage in our secret vault inside a mountain”), with limited ability to change what is in escrow. Usually a restriction of changing escrowed assets only a few times a year, such as once per quarter, applies. This means the source code in escrow is almost always hopelessly out of date. The process of escrowing is usually an expensive hassle, and each extra service, such as updating or releasing the escrowed assets, is associated with hefty additional premium charges. Neither vendor nor client has much control of or information about what exactly is in escrow. One may know that a DVD has been escrowed, but lit
