‘One Mac mini’

Chris Foresman at Ars, discussing Omni Group’s free OTA sync service:

The cloud syncing service is built to work with any WebDAV server, so users can use iDisk, their own server, or use Omni Group’s free hosted service.

“We actually host over 10,000 users on one Mac mini,” [Omni Group CEO Ken] Case said, explaining that as long as the service can scale on such modest hardware, Omni will continue to offer free syncing. However, some corporate customers would likely prefer to host their own data for security purposes, and WebDAV gives them an easy way to do that with minimal effort.

The new syncing back-end is also designed to work with OmniFocus, which will let individual team members sync tasks assigned to them with either the desktop, iPhone, or iPad versions. “All three versions use the same underlying engine, so once we have that update in place, we’ll be able to roll out OmniPlan syncing to all versions of OmniFocus,” Case told Ars.

That really makes Cultured Code’s lack of OTA sync that much more pathetic.